Kate McCann battled to contain her emotion yesterday as she said: “Madeleine needs our help — she needs her family.”
The anguished mum broke down time and again as she insisted she STILL believes her missing daughter is alive.
Red-eyed Kate, 39, said: “I don’t know why anyone could harm her. I don’t know how anyone could harm anyone as beautiful as Madeleine. I don’t mean her appearance — I mean as a beautiful person. As Madeleine’s mummy, I feel in my heart that she is out there and I want her back.”
In a rare display of distress, GP Kate wept: “I feel lonely and our life is not as happy without Madeleine. I feel anxious she is not with us. We have not even seen her since she was four. She needs our help.”
The cameras stopped to allow Kate time to compose herself.
She went on to tell the interviewer: “I think she is possibly being held by someone in their house but I don’t know. It is six months and I strongly believe Madeleine is out there and we want to do everything we can to find her.
“I don’t believe Madeleine has been taken away from us permanently.” (The Sun)