McCann's fear the worst - but hope for the best

Madeleine McCann’s parents are facing up to the possibility that she is dead - but cling to the hope that their next phone call will tell them she has been found alive, their spokesman said today.

Clarence Mitchell spoke today of Gerry and Kate McCann’s “turmoil” at losing their four-year-old daughter, which he said had been made many times worse by their being made official suspects in her disappearance.