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MUM'S BIRTHDAY PLEA FOR MADELINE
THE SEARCH FOR MADELEINE: DAY 11


IT was the cruellest day any mother could face. She should have been celebrating her little girl's fourth birthday at a party packed with friends, family and laughter.

Instead Kate McCann, sleepless with anxiety, greeted dawn with a growing despair as the hunt for missing Madeleine today enters another unbearable week.

In a statement read on her behalf she pleaded" "On Madeleine's birthday, please keep looking, please keep praying, please help bring Madeleine home."

For the first time Kate has begun to fear that Portuguese police could wind up their search with her daughter still not returned to her and no clear leads.

It has now been 11 days since Madeleine was snatched from her hotel bed during a family holiday and Kate's worried family fear that the stricken mum, a 38-year-old GP, is near collapse.

Her uncle Brian Kennedy said that she was becoming dangerously frail, trapped in a living nightmare. He said: "We don't know how long she can go on like this. She's going through unimaginable misery. Madeleine is the centre of her world and she feels an unbearable void to be without her on her birthday. We're all deeply worried about Kate. She's lost a lot of weight and looks so weak.

"She is normally a very fit, sporty and healthy woman. She has always been very lean and slim, but now she looks gaunt, almost skeletal."

Kate has been urged by her family to rest and stop forcing herself through the ordeal of appearing in front of the cameras which are broadcasting round-the-clock appeals for her daughter's return. Yesterday Kate and her husband Gerry arrived at the tiny 16th Century Our Lady Luz church for evening mass. Green and yellow ribbons were tied to the door - green as a symbol of hope for their daughter's safe return, yellow in remembrance of missing Madeleine.

The McCanns walked silently side-by-side into church, Kate clutching the Cuddle Cat toy that has not left her side since Madeleine's disappearance.

She had earlier carefully prepared a statement, well aware that a mother's words can sometimes reach deeper than a father's.

But as the sun rose after another sleepless night, she was simply too broken to face the TV crews.

It was the first time Kate's astonishing strength, which had held up through countless public appeals in which the pain was clearly written on her face, had deserted her. Her Uncle Brian, 68, a retired headteacher said: "She just couldn't put herself through it. We have all urged her to stay inside, to regain her strength."

Instead Alex Woolfall, a spokesman for holiday firm Mark Warner, made the statement on the McCanns' behalf for people to keep searching for their little girl.

The rest of statement read: "Today is our daughter Madeleine's fourth birthday. We would like to mark today by asking people to redouble their efforts to help find Madeleine. We know that there is already a huge amount of effort and resource being put into the search for our daughter.

"We also know that offers of support are being made daily. It is this that keeps us strong and gives us hope."

Kate spent most of yesterday privately in the villa she and Gerry and their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie have now moved to.

They appeared briefly when they went to the Mark Warner complex where they stayed when Madeleine was abducted. The twins each clutched balloons, signs the family had held their own subdued birthday celebration.

Portuguese detectives now believe nine British holidaymakers hold the key to finding her kidnapper. Police sniffer dogs have tracked Madeleine's scent to a local supermarket and two apartments where the group were staying, only yards from where she was snatched.

The nine Brits have been helping police with their inquiries over the last three days.

Police believe they may have unwittingly come into contact with a "middle man" of Madeleine's abductor or abductors at the Ocean Club in Prai da Luz, Portugal.

Although there is no suggestion the nine are being treated as suspects, they are seen as important witnesses.

And the news fuelled speculation that a fellow holidaymaker who the McCanns may have met during their break was involve in the abduction.

A police source said: "We are hoping we can reach the kidnapper or kidnappers' middle man through these nine.

"They have all been questioned as potential witnesses. They were staying at two apartments that the sniffer dogs have tracked Madeleine's scent to."

Madeleine was snatched from the family's apartment at 10pm on May 3 while her parents were having a meal with other guests just 50 yards away.

Two men and a blonde woman seen at a petrol station driving a car with UK registration plates last week have emerged as prime suspects.

WITNESSES say all three seemed to be English and were driving a car with yellow and black registration plates like UK cars.

Local shopkeepers have also been shown CCTV printouts of three people, including a man aged about 40 with dark hair down to his shoulders, a blonde woman of about 40 with her hair in a ponytail and an older woman with collar-length hair.

The three were clearly not Portuguese and "looked English".

There was also a flurry of unconfirmed reports yesterday, including the hunt for a man in a white van who matched the description of a man in a police e-fit. Locals had reported seeing the van parked opposite the family's apartment a week before Madeleine went missing.

There are now just 30 police officers assigned to the investigation, scaled down from the original 150 that scoured the surrounding area for clues.

Senior detectives - who have come under attack for a series of blunders during the probe - are working late into the night at the area's police headquarters in the town of Portimao.

Some have even been sleeping at the office.

Meanwhile, the Sunday Mirror can reveal that Madeleine was snatched through patio doors which had been left unlocked by the family.

It was originally thought shutters at the front of the villa had been broken and jammed open by the kidnappers. But Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa confided in former British Chief Inspector Albert Kirby that neither the windows or their metal shutters had been tampered with. Mr Kirby, who led the Jamie Bulger inquiry and is currently in Portugal, revealed it was the sliding patio doors of the ground floor apartment that allowed Madeleine to be quietly and quickly kidnapped.

The McCanns would have used the patio doors as they checked on their daughter and her siblings during their meal. They had a direct line of sight to the apartment from their table at the tapas restaurant opposite, but their view of the doors was obscured by a hedge.

Mr Kirby told the Sunday Mirror: "I had a very interesting chat with the officer in charge. The window shutters are not at all involved. The door was left unlocked.

"The window's shutters are almost impossible to open from the outside."

The McCanns have vowed to remain in Portugal until their daughter can come home with them.

Madeleine's grandparents Susan and Brian Healey last night described the little girl as "a special gift from God".

Susan said: "It would take a lifetime for us to thank all the people who have offered support. Now we just want our Madeleine brought home.

"We don't know how long Kate and Gerry are going to stay out there for.

"At the moment it is just a frightening thought that life could ever go on again without Madeleine." Sundaymirror

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Support Network For Madeleine's Parents


A spiritual and financial network is being built around the parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann, to help them stay in Portugal as long as necessary. Skynews

THE News of the World has put up a record £1.5 million reward for the safe return of Madeleine McCann. NOTW

'We Have To Believe Madeleine Is Safe'
Madeleine McCann's parents have said they have to cling to the hope that their daughter is still alive.

Gerry And Kate McCann's Statement with this link

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MADELEINE: BRITISH MAN IS SUSPECT Mirror

Police say Briton is Madeleine suspect






Robert Murat in Praia da Luz.

Portuguese police hunting for Madeleine McCann today said a British man was being treated as a formal suspect.

Robert Murat, an expat who lives in Praia da Luz less than 150 metres from where the four-year-old vanished 12 days ago, is understood to be the man who has had his status raised to that of "arguido" - a named suspect.

Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa said a Briton in his 30s, taken from a house searched by detectives yesterday, has now been classed as an arguido. The BBC and Portuguese news agencies said the man was Mr Murat.


Mr Murat, who grew up in Portugal and returned to the country two years ago after going to live in England, was released early today after police questioned him for more than 16 hours yesterday.

He was interviewed along with a Portuguese man and a woman, understood to be German, who have also been released.

Under Portuguese law, an arguido is someone who is being treated by police as more than a witness but has not been arrested or charged. A person undergoing police questioning can ask to have arguido status, giving them the right to a lawyer and to maintain their silence.

It was unclear whether Mr Murat - who was released at around 1.45am today according to his mother, Jenny - invoked this right. He was not taken before a judge, which would be needed if the police wanted to restrict his movements, the BBC said.

Forensic police wearing white suits and face masks entered Casa Liliana, the one-storey villa where he and his mother live, at 7am yesterday.

Last night, Chief Inspector Sousa, leading the hunt for Madeleine, confirmed that three people had been interviewed as witnesses.

Mr Murat, who is half Portuguese, was brought to the attention of the police by the British press after he was seen regularly crossing the police tape outside the McCann family's holiday apartment.

The 33-year-old made himself known to journalists on Friday May 4, the day after Madeleine disappeared. Lori Campbell, a Sunday Mirror journalist, reported him to local officers as well as to the British embassy and Leicestershire police.

His mother - believed to own the house being searched - has been running a seafront stall carrying appeals for information about Madeleine's disappearance. She denied they had done anything wrong.

Mr Murat's cousin, Sally Eveleigh, told Sky News that 11 officers had visited the guesthouse she runs in nearby Lagos last night. They wanted to know about him but spent only a matter of minutes at her home, she added.

She said there was "absolutely no way" he could have anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance, saying he could "sometimes ... be over-helpful to everybody".

For a spell, Mr Murat lived in the village of Hockering, Norfolk, with his ex-wife, Dawn, before returning to Portugal, where he had spent much of his childhood.

Hockering villager Geoffrey Livock, 71, said he did not know anyone who disliked Mr Murat, adding: "Like we were saying in the pub last night, he would rather help than hinder anyone."

Two women, each carrying a child in a blanket, emerged from the house in Hockering yesterday. A spokesman for Norfolk police said no one at the address had been arrested and nobody in the village was being questioned.

Madeleine vanished on May 3, when it is thought she was taken from her bed while her parents ate dinner at a restaurant next door. Yesterday, her father, Gerry, said the family believed she was safe and being looked after. guardian

I sincerely hope all British broadcasters and newspapers are forthcoming with an apology if this guy is found to be innocent.
How can it be possible for someone's name and picture to be broadcast worldwide when there is no evidence or charge against the man??

Madeleine Suspect: 'My Life Is Ruined'


Robert Murat has told Sky News that being labelled the chief suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has "ruined his life".

Speaking exclusively to Sky, the Briton said he had been made a "scapegoat" by Portugese police.

He was detained on Monday night but released.

Officers said they did not have enough evidence to arrest him in connection with four-year-old Madeleine's disappearance.

"This has ruined my life and made my life very difficult for my family here and in Britain," Mr Murat said.

"The only way I will survive this is if they catch Madeleine's abductor."

He added: "I've been made a scapegoat for something I did not do."

Mr Murat was quizzed with two other people - a man and a woman.


He and his mother Jennifer live in a villa just 100 yards from the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz.

Sources told Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt that Mr Murat was considered a "formal suspect".

They said he was detained after he became aware he was under police surveillance. He complained and was detained.

"There was a surveillance operation on him," said Brunt.

"He became aware he was under surveillance, that a car was following him. He was so annoyed he went and complained to the local police."

Sources also told Brunt that Mr Murat claimed he had an alibi for the night Madeleine disappeared.


"His mother had told me they have a strong alibi for the night Madeleine went missing," Brunt said.

"He told police he came home at 7pm and his mother came home at 8pm. They had dinner and went to bed," Brunt said.

Police searched a water tank next to the swimming pool in the Murats' home and examined a paper shredder.

Two vehicles on the premises - a VW camper van and a hire car - were also searched.

Madeleine disappeared from her family's holiday apartment 13 days ago.

Her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, were having dinner in a tapas bar nearby.

The pair, both doctors from Rothley in Leicestershire, have pledged to stay in the Algarve until she is returned to them.

A reward of £2.6m is being offered for information leading to Madeleine being traced.

Detectives have admitted they have no idea where she may be.

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The British media does not do responsibility. It does stories


The frenzied reporting of the missing McCann child serves neither the interests of the family nor the cause of justice

Simon Jenkins-The Guardian

The media coverage of the missing McCann child has largely escaped censure. This is because it concerns an ongoing tragedy and because the grief of those directly involved is so real. Neither justifies freedom from comment. The coverage has been absurdly over the top and cannot have served the interests of the family, or the eventual cause of justice.

I was astonished to see the BBC news department sending its star presenter, Huw Edwards, to southern Portugal to handle what was essentially a single thread story with at least two other onscreen reporters in place. The corporation must be stiff with under-employed staff. Presumably as a result of this decision, the McCanns regularly led the 6 o'clock news, ahead of Gordon Brown's leadership bid - even when there was nothing new to report from the Algarve.

In this voracious feeding frenzy the media presence in Portimao was reduced to extremes of invention to justify the prominence the story was getting back home. We learned of false sightings, car chases, child traffickers, barren women, beach paedophiles and dark dungeons. A "suspect" was enveloped in private detective work way beyond any consideration for natural justice. The sympathy a reader or viewer was bound to feel for the McCanns was overwhelmed in an exploitative swarm. Star footballers were signed up, as were Hell's Angels, MPs wearing yellow ribbons and ministers meeting deputations. It was as if a missing child were this year's Make Poverty History campaign.

Madeleine has become Maddy, an angel face in the clutches of a monster. The reasonable attempts of the McCanns to avoid publicity and be seen to cooperate with the much-battered Portuguese police were as broken sticks in a tornado of coverage. No aspect of the case was left intact by invading armies of counsellors, paediatricians, psychologists, criminologists and trauma consultants. "Every parent's nightmare" became the nation's nightmare. Families closed their doors to the world, hugged their children close and cursed Portugal.

To suggest that this might not be a good way of finding a missing child is clearly spitting in the wind. It is possible that publicity in the McCann case might have induced witnesses to come forward in the immediate aftermath of the girl's disappearance. It is equally possible that media hysteria could drive a cornered criminal to desperate measures to cover his or her tracks. Is it worth the risk?

There were 798 child abductions in Britain in the last period for which figures are available (2003-4), of which most were intra-family but 68 were "by strangers". Of these, a majority were quickly and quietly resolved, by information being available and acted on before the captor realised. Twenty-five of them took longer, in addition to dozens from preceding years. Since the disappearance of Madeleine on May 3, another 450 young people have gone missing in Britain. While many are teenagers, none has received anything like the attention given to the McCanns.

So what made this case so special as to merit the trans-shipment of Fleet Street's finest and the BBC's chief news-reader? The answer is that a "big news story" is not a systematic concept. It does not emerge onto the page according to some calculus of merit, as satirically suggested by Michael Frayn in his novel, Towards the End of Morning. It does not claim its place on the front page via a table stipulating five dead Englishmen (or one Londoner), 50 dead Europeans and 1,000 dead Chinese.

To acquire front page status a story must compete with dozens of similar human interest stories on a particular day, boosted by happenings over the light news period such as a bank holiday. Hence the phenomenon that alsatians only attack children at Easter and there is a "road carnage horror" every Christmas, though statistics on both are constant through the year. The story should relate the ordinary lives of readers, as did the Soham murders, but not the deaths of the Morecambe Bay Chinese cockle pickers. It must contain tears, suspense and mystery.

Such features are not cynical or strange. A newspaper story strives to attain the quality of a novel, if only because it knows that readers like novels, as television viewers like soap operas. The human imagination is attuned to narratives that have beginnings, middles and ends, preferably ends that carry some moral message. Under this pressure what is extraordinary is not that newspapers sometimes make things up (and get them wrong) but that they make so little up.

The McCann story ticked all these boxes. It was not another runaway teenager or the death abroad of another "promising gap-year student". It was a heartbreaking and open-ended mystery. Any parent could relate to it. Any reader could, by expressing sympathy and showing vigilance, participate in relieving pain and possibly solving the case. This might involve intrusion into private grief and blatant xenophobia, but that is hardly a media novelty. Britons travelling abroad seem to feel entitled to the same consideration by the authorities as they would get at home, and journalists feed that unreasonable expectation.

I have found the coverage of the McCann story prurient and tedious beyond belief. That the BBC should regard it as more important than Brown's ascension to national leadership crumbles my faith in that great organisation. Tabloid values have come to British public service broadcasting with a vengeance and without even the commercial pressure of the private sector. It is like the daily attention given to the kidnapping of the BBC's brave Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnston, when dozens of other kidnappings, including of journalists, go unreported.

In this spirit I must constantly remind myself that the British media does not do responsibility. It does stories. And stories tell better when they are about individuals, not collectives. The media is unconcerned with what people like me find decorous or important. It kicks down doors and exposes the hidden corners of the human condition. It fights competition, plays dirty and disobeys the rules. There is nothing it finds too vulgar or too prurient for its wandering, penetrating lens.

Journalists may have cooked the McCann story to a burnt crisp. But they cook many other stories that way and I say, thank goodness. There are plenty in power who feel too much was written and said on the Royal Navy hostages, on cash-for-honours, on BAE sleaze and on David Kelly. Tough luck on them.

Damilola Taylor was just one among many youngsters whose lives are ruined or lost on Britain's sink housing estates, conditions highlighted by the extraordinary publicity attached to his case. Many brave people are killed for trying to impose order on Britain's streets, but it was the teacher, Philip Lawrence, who captured the public's imagination. Sometimes there is no better way to alert the nation to street violence, racism or even the dangers faced by families abroad than through the tragedy visited on an individual victim.

The British press plays hard cop to the soft cop of the British constitution. It goes where politics dares not tread, certainly the present pusillanimous parliament that still cannot find a way of holding the government to account for Iraq, as congress is finally doing in America. The press does not operate with any sense of proportion, judgment or self-restraint because it is selling stories, not running the country. The unshackled and irresponsible press sometimes gets it wrong. But I still prefer it, warts and all, to a shackled and responsible one.

simon.jenkins@guardian.co.uk

A PHONEY ALIBI?
THE HUNT FOR MADELEINE: 11.40pm call on the night she went missing Murat told police he was at home in bed Russian: We have not spoken for a year
Vanessa.Allen@Mirror.Co.Uk

PHONE calls have cast doubt over the alibis of Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat and Russian computer expert Sergey Malinka.

Records show that the two men had a series of talks - including one at 11.40pm - soon after four-year-old Madeleine went missing from her apartment in Praia da Luz 16 days ago.

Murat, 33, has claimed that at the time he was asleep in his mother Jenny's nearby home.


Malinka, 22 - who also lives nearby - said in a newspaper interview he had not spoken to Murat for a year.

He claims he only knows him because he helped him with a laptop at 71-year-old Jenny's house.

Both men have refused to discuss the phone calls. Murat is the only suspect in the case. Malinka is being treated as a witness. They deny any involvement.

Detectives are said to be concerned that though Murat and Malinka claim to be only business acquaintances they were captured on CCTV speaking animatedly in the days after Madeleine vanished.

Murat also rented a hire car for three days after the abduction, possibly after he realised he was under police surveillance.

He told the hire firm it was because searchers wanted to use his car.

But yesterday his friend Tuck Price said Murat's own car had clutch problems.

Mr Price said Murat was "in a state of shock". He added: "Robert doesn't understand many of the things that have been printed about him.

"But he's very strong and mentally healthy. He doesn't need any kind of psychological help."

As fears grew that Madeleine had been smuggled out of Portugal, it emerged that police have still not checked CCTV cameras along the A22 motorway leading to Spain.

By last night the support website http://www.findmadeleine.com set up by the McCann family had received more than 65 MILLION hits just 48 hours after its launch.

The astonishing wave of support was backed by 22,000 messages.

But sick internet opportunists are trying to cash in on the overwhelming public response by setting up similar-sounding websites.

Unsuspecting users are faced with a series of links to other sites including adult chat rooms, dating services and cheap airline tickets.

Branding those responsible as "parasites", Madeleine's uncle John McCann said: "We're incredibly disappointed that people are taking advantage of other people's generosity for commercial gain."

In another sickening development, ghoulish holidaymakers have been posing with smiles on their faces for photographs outside the apartment where Madeleine was snatched. Meanwhile, the priest comforting the youngster's parents told how the couple were stunned at the "tidal wave of love" shown to them.

Father Paul Seddon - who married 38-year-old Kate and Gerry McCann, and baptised Madeleine - flew out to the Algarve last weekend. Speaking outside the apartment where Madeleine was taken, he said yesterday: "Those first few hours were filled with darkness and fear.

"None of us will ever forget how we felt. If that feeling of helplessness and devastation had continued it would have generated a sort of paralysis.

"But Gerry and Kate would not allow it. They knew it would have destroyed them as people and reduced the chance of finding Madeleine.

"They made a choice to take control of things. This gave them a positive focus and a conviction that Madeleine could and would be found."

Father Seddon said the couple's regular visits to the local Catholic church in Praia da Luz had helped them cope with their ordeal.

He said: "The visits stirred energy and power that strengthened them.

"Kate has a very deep-rooted faith and she turned immediately to God for hope and strength.

"Gerry spoke to me about feeling as if he was in a tunnel - not at the far end where the light seems far away but where the tunnel opens out, where anything seems possible.

"The tidal wave of destruction Madeleine's disappearance has caused has been met by a tidal wave of empathy and love.

"It is being turned into hope and action. Kate and Gerry will leave no stone unturned until we find her.

"On their behalf I want to thank everyone for their part in trying to find this very precious, very special little girl."

Madeleine posters will go up in bus and coach stations served by the Eurolines coach service network stretching from Ireland to the Baltic and Sweden to Morocco.

Richard Bowker, National Express coach group chief executive, said: "We hope this will help raise awareness in places not yet touched by news of Madeleine's disappearance."

A British businessman has paid for 20,000 other Madeleine posters to be distributed across the country.

John Sandford-Hart, who runs a sign firm in Ringwood, Hants, will hand the self-adhesive posters to drivers in Hampshire and Wiltshire.

He said: "It's important that everybody helps. If one poster out of 20,000 makes a difference, it's worth it."

A not-for-profit fighting fund to help find Madeleine has £73,505 in the bank, her family said yesterday.

The figure includes £50,000 from Portsmouth Football Club.

The fund has also received £20,000 in cheque donations. Madeleine's great uncle Brian Kennedy said: "It's the tip of the iceberg. The figure is likely to be considerable."

A two-minute video of missing Madeleine will be shown to fans on giant screens at the FA Cup Final at Wembley today.

The DVD - which has the soundtrack of the Simple Minds hit Don't You Forget About Me - was earlier screened at the Uefa Cup Final between Sevilla and Espanyol.
Mirror

McCann family releases new pictures


The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have allowed a glimpse of how they are trying to maintain a sense of normality while the search for their daughter goes on.

New photographs of Kate and Gerry McCann smiling as they play with their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie give an insight into how the family is coping.

It is 17 days since Madeleine was abducted as she slept in her bed in her parents' holiday apartment in the seaside village of Praia Da Luz, southern Portugal.

Mr and Mrs McCann allowed a photographer to take pictures of them eating lunch and reading books with the twins on Saturday in the flat to which they have moved.

As has become customary, Mrs McCann has yellow and green ribbons tied in her hair to symbolise hope for her daughter's safe return. Her husband is also wearing a green and yellow wristband and Amelie has her hair tied in bunches with a green clip and a yellow band.

Meanwhile, it has been claimed that the sheer scale of the cash rewards being offered to find Madeleine could be hampering the investigation.

While detectives are desperate for news of the missing girl from Rothley, Leicestershire, and welcome anything which helps produce new leads, some are said to fear that resources are being distracted by false sightings of Madeleine motivated by money.

Portugal's Policia Judiciaria (PJ) has had calls reporting possible sightings of the four-year-old pouring in from across Europe and even North Africa.

More than £2.5 million has been offered by well-wishers in a bid to boost the campaign to find Madeleine. But one source close to the investigation said on Saturday: "I think it is a distraction to the investigation because there are always some police who have to go to investigate."

Meanwhile almost 90 million people around the world have expressed their support for Madeleine's family by visiting their official website, http://www.findmadeleine.com. A spokeswoman said Mr and Mrs McCann were taking strength from the "enormous support" they have received. anorak

Parents call in private detectives as police scale down search for Maddy Mail

IS SHE IN YOUR HOLIDAY SNAPS?
Cops to scan holiday pics for clues
Martin Fricker and Vanessa Allen In Praia Da Luz



POLICE hunting missing Madeleine McCann appealed yesterday for holiday snaps which may show her kidnapper.

Officers want holidaymakers to send them pictures taken at the Ocean Club Resort in Praia da Luz in the two weeks before Madeleine, four, was abducted on May 3.

The photos will be run through the Childbase face recognition programme and checked against a picture database of UK paedophiles.


Childbase can handle 1,000 shots an hour. Software can also pinpoint other suspects if the same person repeatedly appears in pictures.

The move came as it emerged police now think Madeleine was taken by a lone predator and supporters disclosed plans to highlight her plight at major events around the world.

A police source said: "The truth is we don't have the slightest idea where she is. The chances of finding her alive are less likely every day."

Holiday snaps should be uploaded to the website of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Unit, http://www.ceop.gov.uk

CEOPU chief Jim Gamble urged Brits back from Portugal: "See if there are people in the background who at first you may not have noticed.

"We are looking for people in a strange place or behaving strangely."

A source said: "It's the first time anyone has tried anything like this. It could be a vital breakthrough."

The system will also search for pictures of suspect Robert Murat and Russian witness Sergey Malinka, 22.

Brit Murat, 33 - who insists he is innocent - told his friend Tuck Price he thought it was a "great idea".

Mr Price said it proved that Portuguese detectives suspected they had the wrong man. He said: "If they're so convinced about Robert, why still look?" He added that Murat, who lives near Madeleine's holiday apartment, recently collapsed for the second time.

A doctor found nothing wrong. But Mr Price said the incident showed the strain the suspect is under.

Murat has contacted PR Max Clifford. It is believed he will try to sell his story if he is eventually cleared.

Mr Clifford said tearful Murat told him: "I'm innocent and I'll prove it."

He added: "It's totally wrong that a man is condemned as guilty when there's been no trial."

Support plans for Madeleine include bookmarks with her picture in every new copy of the final Harry Potter.

The F1 Spyker team will display her posters on its cars at next weekend's Monaco Grand Prix. It is also hoped to highlight her at the Tour de France, golf tournaments and in appeals in cinemas across Europe.

Police yesterday travelled to Morocco after a possible sighting of Madeleine in Marrakech 13 days ago. They are also studying CCTV at Faro airport after reports of a sedated girl.

Madeleine's twin brother and sister Sean and Amelie, two, have no memories of the night she vanished.

They were sleeping in the same room as Madeleine. Their aunt Philomena said: "They couldn't tell anything. We believe Madeleine slept through being taken."

By last night the fighting fund set up by Madeleine's family had topped £184,000. The support website http://www.findmadeleine.com has received more than 100 million hits.

THE CEOPU website details how to upload snaps. Jessop's will load prints onto a DVD for free. The DVD can then be uploaded. Mirror