Gerry McCann, the father of the missing girl Madeleine McCann, has attended and participated in a mass in Portugal nearly two years after her disappearance.
McCann was visiting to take part in a film reconstruction of the night Madeleine disappeared.
Also taking part in the reconstruction were Jane Tanner and Matt Oldfield, part of the “Tapas Seven” who were on holiday with the McCanns at the time of the disappearance.
A spokesman for the McCanns said that Kate McCann, the mother of Madeleine, was too upset to return to the area but that she supported the film reconstruction.
Mr McCann was accompanied by 15 actors and a TV crew to film the reconstruction, which will be shown on Channel Four on 7 May, just five days before Madeleine’s fifth birthday.
The film will feature statements from Portuguese police files being read over the action.
Madeleine was three when she was abducted from her family's holiday apartment in Praia de Lux in Portugal on 3 May 2007. Her parents, practising Catholics Gerry and Kate McCann, have since kept up a worldwide search for their daughter.
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