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Madeleine McCann disappearance: A timeline
Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment 16 years ago.
In the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.
Here is the story so far.
2007
On 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
- Her parents go for dinner with a group of friends at a restaurant in the complex. Madeleine and her younger brother and sister - twins - stay in the apartment, 100 yards away
- The adults had devised a rota system to check on all their children during the evening
- When it is the turn of Kate McCann, she discovers her daughter, Madeleine, has gone
- Police are called and staff and guests at the complex search for her until daybreak
- Border police and airport staff are put on alert and hundreds of volunteers join efforts to find Madeleine in the following days
On 12 May, the McCanns say they "cannot describe the anguish and despair" they are feeling.
Portuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive
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Timeline of events since Madeleine McCann disappeared
The three-year-old went missing from a holiday flat in Portugal in 2007 when she was aged three.
As Christian Brueckner – a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann – is acquitted of unrelated sex offences in Germany, here is a timeline of the main events since the three-year-old went missing.
2007
– May 3: Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, leave their children asleep in their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in southern Portugal while they dine with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant.
Nothing is amiss when Mr McCann checks on the youngsters just after 9pm, but when his wife goes back at about 10pm she finds Madeleine missing.
Jane Tanner, one of the friends dining with the McCanns, reports having seen a man carrying a child earlier that night.
– May 14: Detectives take Anglo-Portuguese property developer Robert Murat in for questioning and make him an “arguido”, or formal suspect, but this is later withdrawn.
– August 11: Exactly 100 days after Madeleine disappeared, investigating officers publicly acknowledge for the first time that she could be dead.
– September 7: During questioning of Mr and Mrs McCann, detectives make them bot