McCanns reunite with friends from tapas restaurant

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

Held at a Leicestershire hotel at the end of last month, it was the first face-to-face meeting of the group, dubbed the Tapas Nine, since the McCanns’ return to Britain.

Advisers for the Rothley couple were present, said Clarence Mitchell, but he denied the private meeting was held for the friends to compare their accounts of the day the four-year-old disappeared.