The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann have been given renewed hope she will be found alive after three American women, missing for more than a decade, were discovered in a house.
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found alive and well in Cleveland, Ohio, after allegedly being held prisoner by three brothers.
Ms Berry disappeared aged 16 in 2003 on her way home from work at a burger restaurant. Ms DeJesus went missing aged 14 in 2004. Ms Knight, now 32, went missing in 2002. They were rescued from the house – just a few miles from where they vanished, along with a six-year-old girl apparently born to one of them while in captivity.
Glasgow-born Gerry McCann and his wife Kate, whose three year-old daughter Madeleine disappeared in Portugal's Algarve in 2007, said: "The discovery of these young women reaffirms our hope of finding Madeleine, which has never diminished. We ask the public to remain vigilant in the search for Madeleine.
"Our thoughts are with the women in America and their families."
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