Max, from Praia Da Luz, it is good to read your comment and also to see all the people of Praia Da Luz supporting the McCanns on CNN at the 100 days ceremony to mark Madeleine's abduction. If only the media in Portugal could be as supportive as many of the Portuguese people have obviously been to Kate and Gerry McCann

JL, Sydney, Australia

Exactly Cari. Your child knows and trusts you. With over 30 years experience of working with children, and knowing my own kids I know that it takes time to build up that trust. It would not be easy to remove a child of 3 or 4 if they did not know you, and this is not to point the finger at anyone.
Madeline is of a developmental age to vocalise her fear or be very reluctant. Kate McCann describes a very bright articulate little girl who knows her own mind.
As for J. D. exactly how is your comment meant to be helpful to the McCann family? If you can only be rude, don't bother

Sue Howard, Penrith, Uk

I think DNA was found in Belgium that didn't belong to the little girl.

Helen , Dundee,

I believe that the person who took/killed M. can't be somebody who just by chance went into the compaund, checked the doors and bingo, one door was open and children alone.
It must have been eather somebody who had contact with people inside, tourist or people working on the compaund, or somebody who was vacationig there. Otherwise it should be somebody from outside who made a very good research before attacking, but then somebody else should have noticed this person. But of course sometimes thing happen in a way that you could not imagine in your wildest dream.

Krystyna Hellström, Stockholm, Sweden

Can someone please enlighten me.
The cuddly toy which Madeleine always kept close to her was placed on a shelf. (3rd May). On 5th May and thereafter, Kate McCann has always held this toy in every interview. My question is: was this toy fully forensically tested? Surely it should have been.

Carovil, London, UK

Exactly, D Dredge, which is why no-one is saying that the corpse was Madeleine's. It simply means that at some point in the past few years there has been a corpse in that apartment. That along with the blood on the wall makes for a very interesting sub-plot. If I were the police I would be checking the records and names of every single person renting that apartment in the last 5 years.

Mark, Marlow,

I agree with David Dredge's comments. I also think the Portuguese Police haven't a clue what happened and that the speculation is garbled and out of control. There is every chance EVERY chance that Madeleine is still alive and being held somewhere. Perhaps when the media frenzy calms down, she may be found. In the meantime, none of us must ever stop looking, ever.

Fiona O'Fee, Inverness, UK

Many of the people in that area do not deserve the money that comes from tourism, after that way that they have treated the McCanns. I will not be visiting the Algarve again after this I can tell you!

Andrew Warburton, Sheffield,

It is dark in portugal much earlier than northern europe in summer- closer to the equator.

You got it wrong, so it would have been pitch black.

Jonathan Dimbleby, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

What do you know? have you been there? everyone is judging the parents, the villagers, the case, the suspects, by what the media say. the media distort treality and creats conflict to grab our attention and money Relax take a deep breath and avoid throwing stones.

PEPE, London, uk

First the Times reports the blood IS Maddys ,then the Times reports the blood IS NOT Maddys.Now other sources including the PJ say the test results aren't in yet.What is the truth?

jackiew, South London,

i still believe strongly that the police should be focusing their efforts on trying to find the man and women that were seen with a child in belguim. they have still not come forward to clear their names which raises a big red flag to me and i am not a police officer or detective. i also have to say the police are always contridicting themselves over there. they decided that madeleine was dead because of the blood spects now that, that has proved to be wrong they are saying there is other new evidence. it just seems to me they are spinning their wheels while that child is still out there haveing horrible things possibly done to her. someone fresh should step in and take over as the police there have no clue.

cindy, windsor, ontario , canada

I think little Madileine is still alive. Police should focus more on people who worked and owner on the place where little one was missed. If not they should get a help from mind readers in India or Sri Lanka to get some trace.

Kachcha, Leicester, U.K, U.K

The blood on the apartment wall CANNOT be Madeleine's. How can an abducter or whoever abduct, murder and remove all eveidence to the extend that they are not visible to the naked eye in only 45 minutes. (from 09:10 - 10:00) this is the time assumed the abduction took place. Wouldn't he or she be paranoid that someone would come in to the apartment during this process?(the parents were supposedly checking on the kids every half and hour)
And if this is the case, the smell of blood or detergent would've been identified right after the murder. And assuming this happened, how could the abducter carry the body, in what way or manner, wouldn't someone see all this when the resort was full of tourists and staff??? Clearly there is something more to this story - a missing link that has not been explored yet.....

SL, Dubai, UAE

Does this change the fact that the McCann’s broke the law when they left their children alone? Should everyone who is middle class, professional and has the support of the Catholic Church escape the consequences of their actions? I don’t think so. The McCanns were the architects of Madeleine’s tragedy and neither they nor the abductor should escape justice. Those who are so eager to support the parents should take a long, hard look at themselves and the implications of their position.

John, Liverpool, UK

What puzzles me, if she was killed in the apartment, is why and how? A 3 year old would yell blue murder if removed, unless she was drugged. In any case why remove her and then kill her?

Sarah, Winslow, Bucks,

Well this story has been denied by the Birmingham lab

dave, leicester, UK

Re Elisabeth in Amsterdam, Australia. Where is that? I'm from QLD and in the summertime it's dark around 7.30pm. I am not sure it's really light anywhere in Australia at 10pm - unless it's due to daylight savings which sadly QLDers don't have. But really, if you can't spell properly, it's possible you haven't noted the time of day correctly either.

Lulu, London, Uk

Like I said from the start of last week, evidence is only evidence if it is associated with the case.

I hope this gives more credence to the theory that she is alive and being kept somewhere. Why shouldn't she be?

All the press members who reported that Madeleine's blood had been found on the wall of the appartment should now issue an apology to Madeleine's family for causing undue distress. I guess the McCanns are just too dignified to demand something like that though!

Rob, Birmingham, UK

elisabeth,
in the south of Portugal, at 10PM its never day light. In fact, even in Summer, the sun sets at 9 PM, and it becomes dark, at once.. This does not, however, explain this stupid and so dramatic event. Let's hope the little girl is well, and that she will be back to her normal life and her parents, as soon as possible.

eugenia, geneva, switzerland

Please report news by this facts,true information to the public.
The Forensic Science Service has denied that they have finished analysing the samples and do not have yet the results.
Please stop speculating and have some respect for an investigation on a very sensitive issue like the one of a possible death of a small child.
Not only you show little respect for the public in general but also towards professionals like me. Jeorpardizing both journalists, police, law system, specialits in forensics..
Thanks

Ana Silva, Lisbon, Portugal

I also wondered about the sight in Belgium.......I know the bottle was tested for DNA, but what about fingerprints.

Janet Luttrell, Morganfield, KY USA

my first time to open this page & read the news ,I'm sorry to hear that .A person was disappeared,no body know where she is...

mooso, wuhan, China

Please trust in Portuguese police!
They are working hard in this case! They have good investigators, and profissionals working on it.
Millions are praying. At Fatima, where Our Lady apeared to 2 children, millions have prayed for Madeleine. We all hope she is alive, and we hope she can return home with her parents!
Kate and Gerry have our support.

joana, Lisbon, Portugal

I can not believe with all the technology we are supposed to have and after all this time that someone hasn't seen or heard something. I truly hope that Madeleine is not dead and that she will be found, but if the worst imagineable thing has happened then someone must know. You can not just disappear with a child and no-one know something. Whoever has taken her should just own up now and put everyone out of their misery. Madeleine needs to be brought home now and allowed to get on with her life

R Stevenss, Stoke-on-Trent,

Sue - it is easy to pick up a sleeping toddler. I lift my 3 year old daughter every night to take her to the bathroom, she stays asleep and does not notice! So I think that it would be easy to pick her up and move her, also if you saw a man carrying a sleeping child you would assume it was her father - it's not so strange.

Cari Dennis, Torquay, England

So at least two people saw a "man" carrying a child, towards the beach. Was there no description of this person....anything...age, race, build? If this was Maddy with this person, and they were headed to the beach, that doesn't look to promising for her to be found alive. What if he disposed of her right then and there? This is just too tragic to comprehend.

Sharron Ebert, Blaine, USA

Good - there is still hope that little Madeleine is alive somewhere. Her parents and family need our continuing support and prayers not the hostility that appears to be hurled at them. They are facing their living nightmare on a daily basis - something that I (and many others) could not even contemplate bearing. I pray for the McCanns and for the safe return of their lovely, lost daughter.

Jenny French, Brighton, England

How did a complete stranger to the child remove her without fuss? That is what puzzles me. Have you ever tried to get a 3-4 year old to do something they don't want to do?

Sue Howard, Penrith, Cumbria/UK

What is happening regarding the reported sighting in Belgium? There is an identikit of a man who no one seems to know or have ever seen, which is bizarre, and he certainly never came forward himself, which is surprising. There is part of a licence plate from a black volvo which the police can't trace - again, what's that about? Surely there is a central database of car regs, so what is the story with this car?. Am I the only one who thinks that this is all really strange, and, more significantly, that this could possibly point to the fact that the little girl was indeed Madeleine, and that the characters accompanying her were indeed her abductors. So the question is WHAT IS ANYONE DOING ABOUT THIS??? Can someone enlighten us as to what is happening regarding this sighting? I have a horrible feeling that Madeleine was that girl and that there is still a chance that she can be found and returned to her family. Please God that is so.

jackie, Galway, Ireland

Sorry Elizabeth but the fact that it may be light where you are in Australia has no bearing on us here. It is most certainly pitch dark well before 10.00pm in the Algarve in early May.

catherine, Luz, Algarve

As a resident of Luz I think I speak for the great majority here when I say how hurtful I find comments such as those made by Belarmina Vaz of Italy. We are a close community made up mainly of hard working families with small businesses. We take pride in our village and the large number of returning visitors to our resort is testimony to the effort we put into the care of our clients. May 3rd was a shocking day for all of us here and the loss of Madeleine weighs heavily on all our heart. This was demonstrated by the huge turnout both on that night when neighbours knocked on each others doors to spread the word, and in the ground searches of the following week. The McCanns have received nothing but support, practical, emotional and spiritual, from the vast majority here and they themselves have acknowledged this on many occasions. I am bewildered at the notion that on top of this we villagers are now to bear the collective responsibility for the loss of this poor littel girl?

max, Praia da Luz,

Hear, Hear, JD of London. I just hope that Kate and Gerry remain in Portugal for as long as they can until Madeleine is found. I think the Portuguese Police would be only too happy for them to pack up and leave so they can do nothing. Stay put, Gerry and Kate. Keep the pressure on them by being there.

JL, Sydney, Australia

Under Portuguese law the police cannot reveal any aspects of the case. And there can hardly have been a case in the last fifty years in which more details have been revealed than this one.

eric campbell, harrogate, uk

I cling to the hope that if Madeleine were dead she would have been found by now, as one does not keep moving a body around the way one does a child. When I go abroad this winter I will have a printout with me showing her face and the Crimestoppers number. It only takes one lucky person, one lucky find...

Diane, Sutton,

What is happening with Belguim sighting? Whislt the tests on the bottle were inconclusive, were further tests not carried out? The table would surely have been covered in fingerprints - was this also checked? This feeling of helplessness would be eased very slightly by being confident all is being done.

helen summerton, leeds, yorkshire

People did see something remember, at least 2 people saw a man carrying a child that night. As for clearing Murat now that the villa has been searched again, this just proves to me that she was never in the villa! therefore no dna from Madeleine will be found there. Murat may or may not be the man who was seen carrying a child, but the reports are that the child was being carried towards the beach area so it could still be him, if he is innocent you have to feel for the man, either way lets pray that something comes to light soon.

Nita, Nottingham, UK

After this time, and no contact from an ábductor´, surely the PJ have to be considering that she is no longer alive?

diddy, germany,

In a Hoilday ressort u must of seen of heard somethink! the poor little girl!!! they need to find her

Dannielle George, Llandeilo,

Whilst a sniffer dog may be able to detect a 'corpse' , I find it hard to beleive this could include detecting a body that (in theory) had been freshly killed and removed from the room within minutes. Also, why would someone enter the room, kill, and then take the body? That scenario doesn't make sense.

David Dredge, cromer, UK

It is painful watching the faces of Madeline's parents & harder still to comprehend the wave of antagonism towards them when all they've done to the best of their abilities is look after their kids. I can understand also why the McCann's have not gone home to England because to do would be to admit that there is no hope for Madeline's return alive or of the family unit ever becoming whole again & returning intact.

The people of the village where the McCann's stayed on holiday & especially the expatriate loud mouth Barrister who has been feeding the press with so much original garbage should be ashamed of themselves for the lack of empathy they show the McCann's & should realise that they bear a collective responsibility for her disappearance for after all it is the tourist Euros' that keep their local economies going.

The McCann's came for a family holiday & what happened to them, could happen to others & anyone complaining about the effects on their family should realise this.

Belarmino Vaz, ISPRA / Varese, Italy

Good. And hopefully the parents won't have had to buy The Times to find this out for themselves. It may not have moved the investigation too far on, but it should silence those hyenas particularly abroad but also here whose baying has made an already harrowing situation so unnecessarily disturbing and bitter in recent days . Not only for the little girl's family but also for all those of us who are watching with crossed fingers.

Hazel Kernoghan, Thatcham, UK

maddeleine dissapeard at a time when in europe it is NOT pich dark ,!!!!!! where I come from it is still light at 10 pm ,HOW come no body SAW something , ??? in a holliday ressort !!!! THAT is wat PUZZLE,S me !!!!!!

elisabeth, Amsterdam, australia

That will upset the many wannabe detectives who spend all day every day with their fat butts glued to their computer chairs, on forums, spewing their hateful accusations at the McCanns.

J D, London, England