WE’LL NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU

IT LOOKS like a typical little girl’s bedroom. The walls are painted a pinkish hue, the ceiling is adorned with glowing stars, and dolls and teddy bears are arranged in a neat row, ready for their owner to play with them.

For more than 13 years this is how the room has remained, as if frozen in time, waiting for the door to swing open and for three-year-old Madeleine Mc-Cann to bound in.

Although for most people it seems extremely unlikely that the girl – who went missing on holiday with her parents in Portugal in 2007 – will ever return, her parents, Kate and Gerry, have refused to give