Police searching for Madeleine McCann are starting to assess the response to their most detailed public appeal.
Daily Mail Headline: Family friend 'may have witnessed' abduction of Madeleine
A friend of Madeleine McCann's parents may have seen her being carried away from her holiday apartment the night she vanished, it's been was revealed. A "witness" reported seeing a man carrying "an object that could have been ... a child" in the Algarve village of Praia Da Luz at 9.30pm on May 3 - while Madeleine's parents were finishing dinner nearby. A source indicated that the sighting - the most striking so far in the case - was by a female member of the couple's party who has not been named.