BRITAIN:Kate and Gerry McCann released new pictures of the face of a man they believe could be involved in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine in Portugal almost nine months ago as they launched an international appeal to trace him.
The artist's impression was drawn on the basis of a holidaymaker's account given to investigators in the last few days of a "strange" man seen in the resort of Praia da Luz, from where the youngster went missing. Gail Cooper, from Nottinghamshire, who was on holiday in the same complex as the McCann family, reported the man to police after Madeleine went missing last May.
Now, the McCanns' own investigative team has produced the sketch - the second artist's impression of a man the McCanns say is behind their daughter's abduction.
Ms Cooper said she saw the man walking on a beach on April 20th - 13 days before Madeleine went missing. The man came to her villa later that same day, flashed an identity card and said he was collecting money for a local orphanage.
Two days later, on April 22nd, the man was seen near a group of children on a beach outing - the same outing Madeleine went on a few days later. There were "many similarities" between the latest sketch and another compiled on the basis of an account from Jane Tanner, one of a number of friends dining with the McCanns on the night their daughter disappeared.