The agony of their hunt for daughter Madeleine has tormented Kate and Gerry McCann for 13 long years. And as police appear to be on the brink of finally solving the riddle of her disappearance, people around the world touched by their plight are praying for them.
Madeleine was three when she vanished from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. Kate and Gerry, both doctors from Leicestershire, had been enjoying a meal with seven friends at a Tapas restaurant about 200ft away.
The ground-floor flat where Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings Sean and Amelie were asleep could just be seen over the top of a colourful bougainvillea bush.
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