A child minder who had looked after Madeleine McCann has broken her silence about the night the three-year-old went missing 10 years ago.

The former nanny said the image of Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, desperately trying to find their missing daughter still haunts her.

Speaking for the first time about the child's abduction, she recalled Mrs McCann crying and saying “they’ve taken her”.

The witness also claimed the Praia da Luz resort in which the McCanns were staying was considered so unsafe for nannies at the time that staff were handed rape alarms and warned against going out alone.

Describing the resort as radically different to other resorts owned by the Mark Warner travel firm, she added that a girl had been attacked in the area a year before Madeleine's disappearance.

Mark Warner, a global travel firm, quit Praia da Luz in 2015.