Madeleine McCann’s parents said their daughters is “still very much missed” in a statement issued to mark 16 years since she went missing.
Kate and Gerry McCann wrote an update on the ‘Official Find Madeleine Campaign’ Facebook page on the anniversary of her disappearance.
Maddie went missing on May 3, 2007 while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal as her parents said they left her to have dinner.
In the statement, the couple said: “Today marks the 16th anniversary of Madeleine’s abduction.
“Still missing…… still very much missed. It is hard to find the words to convey how we feel.”
Thanking everyone who has supported them through the years the pair added that they “await a breakthrough” from the police investigation.
Earlier this year the Met Police requested more money from the Home Office to extend its investigation into what happened when Madeleine without a trace from the holiday villa the McCanns had been staying in.
Since 2011, £13million has been spent on trying to find answers as the what happened to Madeleine.
The McCanns’s new statement also included a poem by Clare Polland, titled ‘The Contradiction’, which the McCann’s said “resonates strongly” with them.
The poem is about how the absence of a person only increases love for them.
It opens: “The absence contradicts itself: the missing conjures what we miss.”
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