Ross Hall
7 September 2008
The News of the World
Kate and Gerry McCann believe missing daughter Madeleine would have been found now if she had disappeared in England rather than Portugal.
Gerry said: "English police have more experience in kidnaps, they are more alert to the problem.
I don't have any doubt it would have been different if Madeleine had disappeared here."
Maddie, five, vanished from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May last year.
The couple, both 40, from Rothley, Leics, told a Portuguese mag they now keep their other two children, three-yearold twins Sean and Amelie, constantly by their side. Kate said: "We now think about everything that can happen - predators and kidnappers. In shopping centres we never let go of them."
The don't believe the dozens of witnesses reinterviewed by their investigators will lead to Maddie. They think the breakthrough will come from someone linked to the kidnapper.