as an aunt of a 3 year old girl who is the world to me, i cannot imagine what this family is going through, my thought and best wishes are with you.

fabiana t gonzalez, montevideo, uruguay

This is going to seem really odd but I logged onto this site this morning as last night I had a dream that there had been a significant discovery in this case. It was so powerful that I got up to check the web to see if there was any news. Now I am an ordinary person living on the other side of the world completely unconnected to this story other than horrorified by it like everyone else. I haven't been tracking it daily so its feels a strange coincidence that I had that dream this morning. I wonder what will come of it?

weird dream, Sydney, Australia

Dont you think its really rude when people spell the girls name wrong. Obviously dont really follow the case at all but just chip in with "ooh hope shes OK".

Bob, Manchester,

Maddy I pray and trust Our Lord has his hands upon you at all times. You are too tiny to be away from your Mummy and Daddy, what you must be going through can be nothing else but absolute trauma. I will continue to pray for you precious child, you belong to our Lord.

Martha , pmb, south africa

Poor little one, whatever happened to her it's unlikely she'll be anything but traumatised if she's still alive. I almost hope she's not, because I can't bear to think of what might be happening to her & how she might be feeling, if she is.

I'll keep praying that If she still lives, God will give her comfort & protection.

S. Main, Turriff,

Did they ever search that basement in Murat's residence?
We never heard what happened of the outcome.
Truly hope she is found soon and returned to her loving
family. Think about her constantly and the anguish her
parents are going through.

Rochelle, barrow-in-furness, cumbria, england

th ere is a lot of people praying for this little girl including myself prayers are so very powerful dear lord bring her home to her lovely and broken hearted parents . bless and keep this family strong and never give up trying to find her all of us would do the exact same thing they are a lovely close family. who can understand how any one could cause such pain and heartache?

moira alexander, fallbrook, usa

Sometimes one wishes that they find her not alive because the trauma of what could be happening to her or what she is going through right now if she is still alive is simply unbearable.
As a parent i have to applaude her parents because i don't know how they are managing to coup through all this, am not even her family and am struggle.

THULANI , WALSALL, UK

To Eric in Harrogate
Take your point but I don't think they were Portuguese Police, our thoughts must be for Madeleine
Fran London

Fran Pope, London, UK

Article is nothing more, but attempt to diffuse attention
from the fact that the central suspect is British. That is
why all this words about "It is thought that detectives" will
interview Portuguese, German and "also likely to want
to speak" to Russian as well as "Last week a 39-year-old
Dutchman was arrested"...

Van der Den, Breda, Netherlands

I still feel that Madeleine was taken by someone who knew the family during their time in Amsterdam. I pray that she is alive and well, she must be so distressed having not seen her family for so long.

C. Burghard, LANCING, ENGLAND

I am praying for the safe return of Madeleine and that laws will be toughened to protect children such as her from the predators who abduct children for paedophiles to view on the internet. We had a recent case in Australia where the defense for Patrick Power, who was arrested with very graphic child sex images said it was a victimless crime. It has not and never will be a victimless crime. Madeleine to me represents all the screams and cries of the millions of abducted children . May justice show them as little mercy as they have displayed to their tiny victims.

JL , Sydney, Australia

I expect they'll manage to fit him up eventually. Like they did with the chap who didn't kill Jill Dando or the Irishmen who didn't bomb Birmingham or the chap who didn't kill the copper with a machete in Brixton or the chap who didn't blow up the plane over Lockerbie or the solicitor who didn't kill her children or.....or.....or.....

eric, harrogate, uk

i am so ashamed about madaline i hope and pray that she returns home. love you madaline.xx

jade, birmingham, england