Madeleine McCann asked her mother just hours before her disappearance: “Why didn’t you come when we were crying last night?”, it has emerged.

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.

A CHILD’S appearance can be altered in minutes and speed is of the essence when trying to track down their abductor, an expert in the area of child abduction has warned.