World | Kate McCann McCanns Make Christmas Plea for Maddy Parents release video appealing for their daughter's return By Katherine Thompson Posted Dec 22, 2007 6:37 PM CST Copied This March 2007 file photo released by the McCann family Friday, May 4, 2007, shows 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann. (AP Photo/McCann Family, HO) (Associated Press) The parents of Madeleine McCann issued a video message today telling their daughter that "our only Christmas wish is for you to be back with us again" and pleading that anyone with information about her disappearance come forward. The video includes footage of the toddler unwrapping presents last year, the Daily Telegraph reports. In the video, Kate and Gerry McCann urge their daughter to "be brave." To the kidnapper, they say, "You must understand that you hold the key to ending all this despair and anguish, for both us and Madeleine." Madeleine went missing May 3 from her bed in a Portugal holiday resort, while her parents, who remain official suspects, ate at a nearby restaurant with friends. Read These Next 2 Supreme Court justices had a rare public spat. California is cracking down on the 'Montana Loophole.' Ex-House speaker gets prison in COVID loan fraud. Ghostbusters actor Jennifer Runyon dies at 65. Report an error