Madeleine witness speaks of 'guilt'

Jane Tanner is one of the so-called "tapas nine" who were dining in an Algarve holiday resort when the young girl went missing on May 3.

Minutes before the alarm was raised, Ms Tanner saw a man carrying a child away from the Mark Warner holiday complex in Praia da Luz.

She revealed she did not get a close look at his face and was unsure whether she could identify him.

Ms Tanner, 36, told a newspaper: "I wake up to that image every day. Every day I see him there, striding away, carrying Madeleine away and I try desperately to remember more detail, to try and remember what his face was like.

"I think about it over and over again. It's horrible. He had his face turned away from me, sort of sideways and it was very dark. I just didn't see it properly, I wish to God I had. I wouldn't be able to identify him from photos or anything because I didn't get a clear look at him."

She also said she had never told police the abductor was Robert Murat, an Anglo-Portuguese ex-pat who was the first named suspect in Madeleine's disappearance.

"I've never pointed the finger at Robert Murat because I simply don't know if it was him or not," she said.

"I would say the man I saw was more local, or Mediterranean-looking, rather than British, or a tourist. He had dark, almost black, long hair and had swarthy skin.

"He was dressed in that sort of smart casual way European people dress, not the way Brits on holiday dress normally."