Kate McCann - the mother of missing UK child Madeleine McCann - has revealed the message she saw written in the reservation book at the restaurant she was dining at when he daughter disappeared.
The story of Madeleine McCann has captured the hearts of people around the world, as the search for the missing child continues.
Back in 2007, a three-year-old Madeleine was enjoying a family vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, back in 2007.
On the evening of May 3, Madeleine disappeared from her bed in a vacation apartment while he parents - Kate and Gerry McCann - were dining with friends at a nearby tapas restaurant.
She has never been found.
The heartbreaking story has since made headlines around the world after a 21-year-old Polish woman called Julia Wandelt went viral on social media after voicing her belief that she could be the missing British child.
However, despite her apparent similarities in appearance, DNA test results have since concluded that Wandelt has no British roots.
But the news has only invigorated public interest in the case.
There's plenty of information available to those interested in the story - such as Netflix's 2019 documentary The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Additionally, Kate McCann has previously spoken out about their daughter's disappearance in her book, Madeleine: Our Daughter’s Disappearance and the Continuing Search For Her.
Kate and Gerry McCann. Credit: PA Images / AlamyOne detail that has since resurfaced from the 2011 book is what the mother says she saw in the open reservation book from the tapas restaurant she had been dining at on the night of Maddie's disappearance.
She explained in the book that she and her group had requested the same table in the tapas restaurant each night - informing the restaurant that they needed a table with the best view of the apartments. This was because the group's children were all asleep in the hotel apartments when they would be eating out.
However, the mom writes that "to her horror", that information was written in the reservation book - meaning that anybody who read it would have known the children were unsupervised at the time of the McCann's reservation.
"To my horror, I saw that, no doubt in all innocence and simply to explain why she was bending the rules a bit, the receptionist had added the reason for our request: we wanted to eat close to our apartments as we were leaving our young children alone there and checking on them intermittently," Kate McCann wrote at the time.
Author Robbyn Swan - who co-wrote the 2014 book Looking for Madeleine and featured in Netflix's documentary - described the information as "the stuff of nightmares" for the family.
Madeleine McCann at the age of three. Credit: James Boardman Archive / AlamyAs of this writing, the current prime suspect in the case relating to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann continues to be 45-year-old Christian Brueckner.
BBC News reports that at the time of McCann's disappearance, Brueckner was living in the area out of a camper van. Experts say a phone attributed to Brueckner placed him within a 30-minute window of the McCann's vacation resort.
Brueckner has denied any involvement in the child's disappearance and has not been charged with any crimes related to McCann.
