Kate and Gerry McCann have never been able to shake accusations they were responsible for Maddie's disappearance - and here's why.

They were just two years old when their sister disappeared, but they remember Maddie clearly and miss her everyday.

The 21-year-old Polish woman who is convinced that she is Madeleine McCann previously took a DNA test.

Kate and Gerry McCann have experienced every parent's worst nightmare. So has their marriage managed to survive?

''This is a murder case, not a missing person's case.''

“and before you say “this is sick” etc I know it is but I’m not the one who left a child unattended in a Portuguese hotel”.

They simply don't have the “time, energy or funding” to contest it further.

It's nearly the 10th anniversary of the 3-year-old's disappearance. Heartbreakingly, Kate says she still buys birthday and Christmas presents for Madeleine.

The petition comes a month before the 10th anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance.

“An abduction was extremely unlikely based on the amount of time, evidence at the scene, and every other shred of evidence there has ever been.”