Maddie McCann 'left to cry night before she disappeared'

MADELEINE McCann asked her parents why they didn't comfort her when she cried the night before she vanished, according to reports.

The missing five-year-old is said to have asked why mum Kate, 39, had left her and her twin siblings, Sean and Amelie, to sob alone in their room the previous night.

Spanish TV station Telecinco made the claim as it broadcast translated copies of documents it said were the McCanns' police statements, The Sun reported.

An excerpt of the statement that Mrs McCann reportedly gave to Portuguese police reads:

“While we were having breakfast, Maddie said, ’Mummy, why didn’t you come when we were crying last night?’

“Gerry and I spoke for a couple of minutes and agreed to keep a closer watch over the children.”

The McCanns are thought to have spent several nights eating tapas at a restaurant near their holiday complex while their children slept alone in their apartment.

When Mrs McCann realised that Madeleine had disappeared, she ran back to the tapas bar where her friends were eating and shouted: “Maddie isn’t there. Someone’s taken her," Telecinco said.

The McCanns’ holiday friends are previously reported to have told police Mrs McCann screamed: “Madeleine’s gone, Madeleine’s gone.”

The reporter also told how Mr McCann revealed to police in his statement that tradesmen had come into their holiday flat to fix a broken window shutter in the main bedroom two days before she went missing.

Today the McCanns’ spokesman ,Clarence Mitchell, said the couple were very concerned about the leak.

“I am not going to confirm or deny the content of any statements Gerry and Kate have made," he said.

“But we are extremely concerned such material, if it is authentic, has apparently been leaked.”

Portuguese police have asked the McCanns and their friends to take part in a reconstruction of Madeleine’s disappearance after the anniversary of her May 3 disappearance.

The McCanns are official police suspects along with Algarve-based British expat Robert Murat.

All three deny any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.