The parents of Madeleine McCann have met the seven friends they dined with on the day their daughter disappeared, their spokesman said today.

A waiter from the restaurant where the McCanns ate on the evening their daughter Madeleine disappeared has described how a normal night “became madness”, according to reports today.

Friends who dined with the McCanns on the night Madeleine vanished said today they were “totally appalled” at any suggestion that Kate McCann was involved in her daughter’s disappearance.