Two witnesses who were staying two floors above the McCann family in Portugal describe the harrowing moment Kate and Gerry realised Madeleine was missing
It has now been ten years since Madeleine McCann disappeared whilst on holiday with her family in the Algarve in Portugal.
To mark the occasion, her parents, Kate and Gerry, opened up in an emotional interview with the BBC's Fiona Bruce.
Kate also wrote a heartbreaking open letter to thank those who have supported the family over the last decade.
Witnesses who were there the night that Maddie was taken have now revealed what happened the moment that Kate returned from dinner out with her friends to find Madeleine gone.
Paul and Susan Moyes, from Middlewich in Cheshire, were staying two floors above the McCanns in the Ocean Club Complex on that fateful night in May 2007.
The couple, who were asleep at the time, were woken up by one of the Tapas Nine - the group of friends that Kate and Gerry had gone out with when their children were sleeping in the apartment. They immediately came down to join the search and were up until 4am looking for the little girl.
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Speaking to The Sun, Paul said: "The McCanns were in bits, he was crying on the shoulder of a friend.
"She was screaming 'the fucking bastards have taken her'. There was no doubt about the emotion that night," addind that Kate was "wailing and crying".
Paul and Susan described how they were sat on the balcony sharing a few glasses of whiskey and "didn't see a soul" between 9pm and 9:30pm.
Paul did then reveal that he believes "there is information that the public at large doesn't know" and that Susan "feels it was an abduction," echoing the thoughts of the Metropolitan Police, who last week said she must have been abducted.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said: "She wasn't old enough to make a decision to set off and start her own life. However she left that apartment - she's been abducted."
This comes after Jenny Murat, who lives 100 yards away from the holiday complex and whose son Robert was the first person to be made an "arguido", or suspect.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she described a rental car that was driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
She said: "It was one of the small cars, like the rental cars – the normal, everyday sort of rental cars. I saw the driver, I was beside the driver. Both of us looked at each other," adding that he "had a very British look about him."
Jenny, 79, also noticed a woman who the police have now made a prime suspect: "I noticed her there and she kind of looked as if she was trying to hide from me. I do remember she was wearing a plum-coloured top.
"It struck me as strange. It's so unusual for anyone, particularly a woman, to be standing alone on the street in our resort, just watching a building," adding that she reported the sighting to the police the next day when she heard Madeleine had disappeared, but that they "never questioned" Jenny about her.
We hope this new lead brings police one step closer to finding out what happened to Maddie.
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