2007 - 2017: Key events in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

It is almost ten years since three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the Portuguese coastal village of Praia da Luz.

Despite numerous public appeals, high-profile backers such as J. K. Rowling, and millions of pounds in public money, detectives have been unable to trace the youngster, who had been holidaying with her siblings and parents, Kate and Gerry, at the time.