Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailKate McCann will lay presents in her daughter's bedroom to mark her 15th birthday today - and she hopes Maddie will one day be back to open them herself. The brave mum, who says “hope and perseverance remain”, has been carefully choosing gifts to reflect the teen's age. Maddie’s birthday falls just nine days after her parents joined an informal prayer gathering in their home village of Rothley, Leicestershire, to mark yet another painful anniversary of her disappearance in May 2007. She said she could never ignore Maddie’s birthday and the family “still celebrates her being part of our lives”. She was discovered missing from her bed in the rented flat by her horrified mum shortly after 10pm.

Source: Daily Mirror May 12, 2018 12:11 UTC