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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2016 1:21:31 GMT
 A bizarre advert published in a local paper sparked reports that Maddy McCann has been 'spotted' in Paraguay, it has emerged. The quarter-page ad appeared in newspapers in the small city of Areguá yesterday, launching a media storm which has now crossed the Atlantic.  The advert used several pictures of Maddy from previous appeals, including the computer-generated image of how she might look as an older child. Initial reports suggested Paraguayan police had launched a large-scale hunt for Maddy - but this has since been debunked.  The advert, translated into English, read: "Citizens of Paraguay, Areguá. "My name is Miraz Ali, a private investigator from London. We have been informed that Madeleine McCann has been found living in Areguá, possibly with a woman."  The site quotes an Inspector Sanny Amarilla has having said: "We're investigating in suburbs where there are foreigners, in houses, condos, to see if there is anyone with a similar description as the newspaper cutting.  "This advert crosses the world, it is very important, so if they are in the area we have to recover this girl and return her to her family." He is also quoted as having that four police divisions of Areguá, Home Office Intelligence officers, the Anti-Kidnapping Division and the local division of Interpol are all involved in looking for Maddy. |
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Post by Admin on Mar 21, 2016 1:58:26 GMT
 A major search for Madeleine McCann in South America was initiated by bizarre claims in a local newspaper that she had been ‘spotted’ in Paraguay, it was revealed today. Miraz Ullah Ali Isa, who claims to be a private eye from London, had said the missing girl from Leicestershire was living 'in the custody of a woman' in the southern city of Aregua. And an advert by Mr Ali which appeared in Aregua this week is believed to have triggered a major search involving four local police stations, an anti-kidnapping division and Interpol. Translated into English, it said: ‘My name is Miraz Ali, a private investigator from London. We have been informed that Madeleine McCann has been found living in Aregua, possibly with a woman. ‘She was kidnapped from her hotel on May 3 2007 aged three at the Praia da Luz complex in the Algarve, Portugal. Please look at the photo above. ‘She is now 12 years old and a photograph has been produced of how she would look when she was nine years old. We believe two men were involved and left the country using a boat.’ According to the Daily Mirror, the advert told how Madeleine had ‘suffered in an indescribable manner’ and said there is a €2million (£1.6million) reward for information leading to her safe return. |
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2016 21:17:26 GMT
 The Metropolitan Police inquiry – which has already cost taxpayers £12million – was due to end next month as funding ran out. But a request for more cash was submitted to the Home Office as the deadline approached. It has now been signed off, allowing the hunt to carry on until at least April.  A spokesman for the Home Office said: “The resources required will be reviewed again at this point.” The move will come as a relief to Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry as the fund they set up to find their daughter could soon be wiped out paying lawyers.  Although more than £4.2m has been donated to Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Unturned Ltd since its launch 12 days after she vanished in May 2007, sources close to the couple suggest as little as £480,000 is left. The McCanns face paying £434,000 to ex-Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral’s lawyers after losing their libel action against him, which would leave less than £50,000 in the coffers.  |
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Post by Admin on Oct 2, 2016 20:51:36 GMT
 A sick tour based around the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is being offered to visitors to Portugal’s Algarve.  Her parents Kate and Gerry, of Leicestershire, are said to be upset at the twisted free attraction, in which tourists are taken to the apartment in Praia Da Luz where the three-year-old was last seen before disappearing in 2007.  Other stops along the way include the restaurant her parents ate at when she vanished from her bedroom and a street where a friend of the family said she saw a ‘man carrying a child’.  Called the ‘Luz Challenge’, the tours have also disgusted other ex-pats in the area as well as visitors. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2016 20:53:45 GMT
 Keeley Hawes has revealed she read Kate McCann’s book about her daughter Madeleine to help her prepare to play the mother of an abducted girl.  The Line Of Duty actress – a mum of three in real life – stars in the second series of The Missing, playing a woman whose daughter is discovered alive years after she vanished. Keeley, 40, told the Mirror: “I read the book Kate McCann wrote about Madeleine going missing. It was fascinating and I just think it unbelievable she was able to [write it].  "But I imagine it must have been quite cathartic, in a way. It doesn't make for comfortable reading but then the story isn't comfortable." |
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