'After Four Months, Is This The Day?

The parents of Madeleine McCann have told how a daily ritual helps maintain their spirits as they continue to pray for good news.





Gerry and Kate - who maintain a bullish belief that the four-year-old is still alive - are today facing four months without their daughter

Madeleine has not been seen since vanishing from the family holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3.

Kate said: "Every day Gerry and I get up and say, 'Today could be the day that Madeleine comes home'. We have to keep hoping.



"I know many people think our daughter can't be alive but nothing has changed our thoughts."
She added: "It is four months since Madeleine was cruelly taken from her family.

"Four months since Gerry and I have heard our daughter laugh, seen her smile, read her a story, given her a cuddle.

"Four months of not knowing what our beautiful daughter has had to endure, four months since that cold night when our world fell apart."