Learning Points: Give Madeleine McCann's family the space to put their lives back together

Kate and Gerry McCann, at a press conference in the Merrion Hotel in Dublin, to mark the publication of 'Madeleine; by Kate McCann. Photo: Leon Farrell/RollingNews.ie

It is the fourth of May, 2007. I am coming home from work, tired and scrolling through images of Trapani, Sicily - our holiday destination in a few weeks. Nothing remarkable about the journey, until I read the story of a missing girl in Praia De Luz, Portugal. This was the first time I heard the name Madeleine McCann. The first time I saw her image, a beautiful young child with a distinctive dark strip on the iris of her eye. That image has always been with me since I first saw it on that train journey.