MADELEINE McCANN UPDATE 27

MADELEINE'S PARENTS HOPE FOR RANSOM DEMAND
From The Times
June 4, 2007
David Brown in Praia da Luz



MADELEINE MCCANN

The parents of Madeleine McCann still hope to receive a ransom demand for the return of their abducted daughter as they prepare to continue spreading their appeal for her return across Europe.

Detectives believe that the person who took Madeleine from the bedroom of a holiday apartment in the Algarve 32 days ago could have been deterred from demanding a ransom because of the enormous publicity surrounding her disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann are clinging to the hope that a demand will be included among the hundreds of letters they receive every day in Portugal and Britain.

The torment of spending the past four weeks searching for their daughter caught up with Mrs McCann yesterday when she broke down in tears during an emotional church service in Praia da Luz. The locum GP cried after a young Portuguese girl kissed her when the congregation at the Igreja Nossa Senhora da Luz were asked to exchange a sign of peace. Clutching Madeleine’s favourite toy Cuddle Cat and a copy of her favourite book, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Mrs McCann struggled to compose herself.

The couple, from Rothley, Leicestershire, later issued a statement to mark a calendar month since their four-year-old daughter was snatched from the bedroom where she was sleeping with her two-year-old twin brother and sister, Sean and Amelie.

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