Madeleine: Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her

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In July, authorities investigating the 13-year case announced that the youngster is “assumed to be dead” and opened a murder investigation into a 43-year-old German man, named as Christian B.

Madeleine Kate McCann’s ‘horror’ at hotel staff note before Madeleine

Scotland Yard said they were trying to "prove or disprove" his involvement in the case and retained an "open mind". The suspect has been linked to an early Eighties VW T3 Westfalia camper van – with a white upper body and yellow skirting, registered in Portugal – which was pictured in the Algarve in 2007. To my horror, I saw that no doubt in all innocence and simply to explain why she was bending the rules a bit, the receptionist had added the reason for our request: we wanted to eat close to our apartments as we were leaving our young children alone there and checking on them intermittently. Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of our lives.

We’d had two great breaks to Center Parcs the previous year and I was sorely tempted to stick with something similar this time.

Madeleine McCann: ‘Unexplained detail’ from morning of Madeleine McCann: ‘Unexplained detail’ from morning of

DCI Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met inquiry, said on Wednesday: "Someone out there knows a lot more than they're letting on. Kate McCann, May 2011 'It is a sad fact that not a single police force anywhere is proactively looking for Madeleine (as is the case for many other missing children).And it was then that she realised it would have been clear to anyone working at the restaurant, or any curious member of the public, that the children would be unsupervised in their rooms. Gerry was quite keen on the Portugal idea, attracted by the sporting facilities, children’s clubs and activities on offer. Children often get a bit fractious around bedtime, though I had no recollection of any tears from either Madeleine or Sean before they settled the previous evening.