It was at that point we realised this was serious.”At the time, her parents were eating dinner with friends at a restaurant around 40 yards away, something the former nanny described as completely normal in the resort.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.Speaking for the first time about the child's abduction, she recalled Mrs McCann crying and saying “they’ve taken her”.The witness also claimed the Praia da Luz resort in which the McCanns were staying was considered so unsafe for nannies at the time that staff were handed rape alarms and warned against going out alone. If she was taken when she was sleeping by somebody she did not know, she would have screamed the place down.’Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell added: ‘The family will definitely not be commenting on a private family matter.’A source close to the couple said: ‘It is yet another tragedy for the family and people who know them will be very sorry to hear. - September 9: The McCanns fly back to England with their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.
There was nobody there to say, ‘We need to lock this off now’," she added.The abduction occurred in May 2007 when the three-year-old was sleeping in the family's apartment with her siblings, twins Amelie and Sean.“I can’t go anywhere else in my head.”We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.Describing the resort as radically different to other resorts owned by the Mark Warner travel firm, she added that a girl had been attacked in the area a year before Madeleine's disappearance.The former nanny said the image of Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, desperately trying to find their missing daughter still haunts her.Mark Warner, a global travel firm, quit Praia da Luz in 2015.She said: “It’s probably very naive, but the best case scenario of a very horrible situation, is that she was procured and taken for a rich person who didn’t have children.She added she was astonished that Madeleine's parents were ever considered suspects.Describing the night the three-year-old was snatched, she told of how she attempted to comfort Mrs McCann, who was in a "catatonic state", while Mr McCann searched under cars in the area.“We were told to start looking in bins in case her body was in there. But is is a private family matter and Kate and Gerry do not wish to discuss it.’German detectives believe Maddie was murdered after vanishing from a Portuguese holiday resort in May 2007, but Eileen McCann, 80, ‘never gave up hope’ that she would eventually be found alive.Defending the pair’s decision not to use the resort’s babysitting service, Eileen said: ‘They don’t like leaving the children with strangers. They’re normal parents who love their children and would never neglect them in any way.
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... twins Amelie and Sean. A child minder who had looked after Madeleine McCann has broken her silence about the night the three-year-old went missing 10 years ago. In 2011, Kate McCann wrote her own account of what happened to her daughter Madeleine who disappeared from the family’s Portugal holiday villa in 2007.
But losing Madeleine is ten times worse.’
This 2007 file photo released by the McCann family shows Madeleine McCann at three-years-old. Without a doubt, I believe the person who carried Madeleine out of the room that night had sedated her first.
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Sean and Amelie both compete in triathlons and country crossing racing.
She had been on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann and her twin siblings Sean and Amelie. Now, 12 years later, 14-year-old Sean and Amelie are aspiring athletes, but tend to keep an extremely low profile as there are no public photos of the siblings as they are today.
Any suggestion they were neglecting them is completely insulting.’Last week Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office announced that they were treating the case as a murder and identified their latest suspect as a convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, who is currently serving time for raping a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005.She previously said she believed her ‘hyperactive’ granddaughter had been drugged to stop her screaming as she was abducted.Originally from Donegal, Ireland, Eileen was happy to be thrust into the media spotlight if it helped authorities find Maddie.It is understood Gerry and ex-GP turned medical worker Kate, both 52, attended Eileen’s small funeral while following coronavirus social distancing rules in St Coval’s, East Renfrewshire.They were made suspects in September 2007 but were later cleared by police.Eileen was a fierce defender of Gerry and Kate, who faced harsh criticism for leaving their children alone, and were blamed for their daughter’s disappearance.She joined Madeleine’s parents in appealing to the world to help them find the missing toddler.