Madeleine hunt like ‘Groundhog Day'

MADELEINE McCann’s parents have likened the painstaking search for their daughter as a “bit like Groundhog Day” as they faced their 15th Christmas without her.

- Tracey Kandohla

In a festive message to their supporters Kate and Gerry McCann revealed “work and progress” continues into the global hunt for Madeleine, who vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment in May 2007 when she was three years old.

Writing on the Find Madeleine Campaign Facebook page, heart doctor Gerry and GP-turned medical worker Kate, both 53, refer to the pandemic and the sadness of “more suffering for many”, adding: “It feels a little bit like Groundhog Day with Covid and its requirement for social distancing and face masks and sadly more suffering for many.”