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On The 3rd Of May Between 9:30 And 10:00pm We Need You To Light A Candle For Madeleine 'Show Her The Way Home'

'LIGHT A CANDLE FOR MADDY'
BY PAUL CONROY
10:30 - 24 April 2008

People are being urged to light candles and lanterns as the one year anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance approaches.

The Helping to Find Madeleine group, which is affiliated to her parents' official organisation, has called its campaign Lighting the Way Home.

Member Maxine Harris, of Market Harborough, said: "Just light a candle or leave an outside light on - that is what we would like people to do.



"We are concerned with keeping Madeleine's profile high and making sure people don't forget her."

She said the idea came from the Chinese Lantern Festival, in Taiwan, where people write a wish on lanterns then release them. Their wish is supposed to come true.

The group is urging people to take part by either coming along to its event or lighting a candle at home to mark the anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, on May 3.

Group members are looking for a suitable location within Leicestershire to launch the lanterns.

Gerry and Kate McCann have not revealed any plans to publicly mark the anniversary of the disappearance of their daughter.

However, they have made a documentary about campaigning for a Europe-wide alert system to raise the alarm when a child goes missing.

The programme will be screened next week.

Meanwhile, a friend of Kate and Gerry has spoken publicly for the first time about the night Madeleine went missing.

Rachel Oldfield, one of seven friends on holiday with the couple in Praia da Luz last May, said in an interview on Radio 4 it had been "agonising" to see Mr and Mrs McCann's reactions.

She said: "Anyone with an ounce of common sense would be able to see they couldn't have done it."

Mr and Mrs McCann remain arguidos, or formal suspects, in their daughter's disappearance.

Rachel Oldfield criticised Portguese police in the interview, and said she had been told she could face two years in prison if she spoke publicly.

She accused the Policia Judiciaria of "double standards" following a number of leaks to the media and spoke of her wish to "put the record straight".

Mrs Oldfield said: "We were made to understand we could face two years in prison for speaking out, so as a group we've not said anything, and there have been all these rumours flying around and leaks from sources close to the Policia Judiciaria."

Asked to characterise police actions, she said: "Well, double standards.

"They leaked information and these rumours, which have been flying around for the past year.

"We would have loved to have put the record straight."

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