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The artist's impressions, published in the Daily Mirror, were created with the help of Anna Stam.

In early May last year the 41-year-old shop assistant from Amsterdam spoke to a little girl called "Maddy" who said she had been taken from her mother while on holiday.

The sketches show a dark-featured man aged 35-40 with a moustache, who the paper said was speaking in Portuguese, and a woman in her 40s with brown hair who was speaking French.

Ms Stam's report was one of a number of potential sightings that emerged in the official police files released this week.

The girl entered Ms Stam's party shop in early May last year with a man and a woman and two other children, according to a witness statement to Dutch police.

The man - who "did not look like a nice person" - appeared to be speaking Portuguese but the woman spoke in English and told Ms Stam they had a small circus in France.

Ms Stam was at the back of the shop when the young girl approached her and asked in unaccented English: "Do you know where my mummy is?" On being told that her mother was a little further back in the store, the child replied, "She is not my mummy," and added: "She is a stranger, she took me from my mummy."

The Dutchwoman said she thought the girl looked "very much like" Madeleine apart from the colour of her hair.

Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her family's holiday flat in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3 last year.