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Post by Admin on Dec 20, 2015 9:27:55 GMT
 Madeleine McCann’s parents are poised to launch a new private search for their daughter with the remaining £750,000 in their appeal fund. Kate and Gerry, both 47, aim to begin a fresh initiative to solve the nine-year-old mystery as the £12million Scotland Yard investigation winds down.  Plans are under way to use what is left of the No Stone Unturned fund, boosted by sales of Kate’s book Madeleine, to hire private detectives to probe several unanswered questions. A source told the Sunday People : “There is £750,000 in the account. That money has been preserved because Kate and Gerry knew they may want to reopen an investigation at some point.  |
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Post by Admin on Dec 27, 2015 7:25:17 GMT
 Doctors Kate and Gerry McCann, both 47, said they had “not lost hope that we may get to celebrate another Christmas with her”. The family will lay presents in her bedroom at their home in Rothley, Leics, tomorrow.  The then three-year-old vanished from their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007, while her parents dined with pals nearby. In a posting on the official Find Maddie website yesterday the McCanns said: “Thankfully the police investigation has made progress over the year.  “Patience and perseverance are virtues which we’ve acquired in abundance over recent years – another positive. "And so a new year approaches… new energy, new opportunities, new hope." |
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Post by Admin on Feb 15, 2016 5:50:47 GMT
 Kate McCann has revealed she believes missing daughter Madeleine is still alive in the Algarve. She is convinced Madeleine never went far from the Praia da Luz resort where she was snatched on May 3 2007 - despite thousands of reported sightings of her around the world.  Launching a campaign to get a million people to sign up for missing child alerts, Kate said: “Praia da Luz is where I feel closest to her. “That’s where she last was and I don’t think she’s been taken a million miles from there.”  As well as the scores of apparent sightings , other theories on the tot’s disappearance include that she might have been rushed out of Portugal and sold to a childless couple. But Kate, 47, said that her and husband Gerry’s years of research has taught them that kidnapped children are not usually taken far away.  |
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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2016 1:11:58 GMT
 Madeleine McCann's twin siblings have been told "everything" about her disappearance, their mother Kate has revealed. Amelie and Sean McCann were just toddlers when their sister vanished during a family holiday to the Algarve in May 2007. They were sleeping in the same room as Madeleine when she went missing as her parents dined in a tapas restaurant. The twins are now 11 and their mother says she and husband Gerry keep them informed of the hunt for their sister . Former GP Kate, 47, from Rothley, Leics, told The Sun: "The twins are doing really well. "They've grown up essentially without Madeleine, knowing their sister is missing and they want her back. "They are up to date, they know everything, they know if we are meeting police. There is nothing kept from them." |
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2016 0:11:04 GMT
Paraguayan media reported Tuesday that Madeleine McCann, the British girl who suddenly went missing in Portugal in 2007, has been found in the South American nation, though the Asuncion office of Interpol told EFE they know nothing about the private investigator said to have tracked down the girl.  The case of the missing girl caused a stir in the media after the daily ABC Color published an interview with the private eye, a British national named Miraz Ullah Ali Isa. The newspaper said that Isa was in the town of Aregua last weekend, where, according to his report, the girl had been living for two months in the house of an unidentified woman.  In Aregua, some 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Asuncion, Isa took several photos, then left the country, according to the media. In the interview, the man did not say what company he was working for nor whom he represented, though he did say there was a reward for whoever found the girl and provided a telephone number that was then published in the daily. Nonetheless, inspector Luis Ignacio Arias of Interpol Paraguay told EFE Tuesday that his office has no information about the Isa's identity nor any clues or facts about the girl's supposed whereabouts in the South American country. "There's nothing concrete about that person," Arias said, adding that Isa must have entered the country as a tourist and never approached the National Police or the Foreign Ministry. |
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