200 attend service marking Madeleine anniversary

THE parents of Madeleine McCann joined about 200 people at a prayer vigil on Saturday to mark the six-month anniversary of the youngster’s disappearance.

Gerry and Kate McCann, both 39, spent about an hour at a service in a church near their home in Rothley, Leicestershire. Vicar the Rev Rob Gladstone led special prayers at 9.30pm — the time Madeleine vanished on May 3 while on holiday with her parents in Portugal.

Other missing children, including British toddler Ben Needham, who went missing while on holiday in Greece in 1991, were also remembered at the service.