McCanns ‘let down’ over sighting

A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann says the Portuguese police "let down" Madeleine, who disappeared from the family's holiday apartment last year, by not telling the couple about a 'sighting' of a little girl in Amsterdam, and by a lack of co-ordination. Now investigators for the couple are looking into the report, made to the police in June last year.

A shop worker in Amsterdam said she saw a Portuguese-looking man and woman with a French accent with a little girl. She said: "The little girl stood before me and asked me in English: 'Do you know where my Mummy is?'

"Next I asked the little girl what her name was and she said: 'My name is Maggie.'

"When I repeated it, the little girl said, 'No, my name is Maddy'. I then asked her where she had last seen her mother and she answered: 'They took me from my holiday.'"

The report emerged yesterday when Portuguese police made public their 11,000-page file on Madeleine's disappearance.