The parents of Madeleine McCann are due to release a video featuring the missing toddler’s voice for the first time. Maddie is heard in a touching home movie, filmed as she enjoyed her last family Christmas.
The video shows her, dressed in her favourite pink, sitting on the stairs of her Leicestershire home with younger twin siblings Sean and Amelie, encouraging them: ‘Clap your hands together and one, two, three.’
Delighted at her new pair of slip-ons, Madeleine looks into the camera, smiles and says: ‘These are my shoes.’
Her father Gerry, who is filming her, asks what colour they are and she replies: ‘Pink!’
Madeleine, then three, leaps up from the stairs and dances around the wooden floor, waving her shoes and looking up at the light streaming in from a window.
The short film also shows her dancing in a fairy costume and jokingly hitting Gerry with a soft toy. Then in a montage she is seen turning over a present and pointing at the camera as her smiling mother Kate holds her.