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Release of previously secret police files, Madeleine McCann

Search for Maddy still alive



imageHeartache in paper files. That’s what the parents of Madeleine McCann were handed when the Portuguese police officially closed their books on the Maddy search last month. That the people who cared most about her had to wait until long after the trail ran cold before getting any tangible evidence of the police search has to be one of the most tragic aspects of the missing Maddy case. Potentially crucial information reported to Portuguese police only one month after Maddy disappeared, is only now only public information with the release of previously secret police files. “Investigators for Kate and Gerry McCann are probing claims that a girl calling herself “Maddy” was seen in the Netherlands after their child vanished,” (BBC, Aug. 6, 2008).

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“An Amsterdam shop worker said the girl said “they took me from my holiday”. The McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said it was “tragic” that this kind of evidence has only now been released. Without a trace, Madeleine vanished, a few days before her fourth birthday, in May 2007 while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve. The McCanns, who said all along that the detectives were withholding potentially crucial evidence from them, have been proven right. They have long relied on the services of private investigators to follow up on all `Maddy sightings’. These sightings came from tips from the public at large. Imagine what the private investigators could have done with sightings, including CCTV images, that had been turned over to the police. With police files now in the McCanns’ possession, one tantalizing file showed that Anna Stam, 41, a shop assistant, said she spoke to a girl aged three or four in Amsterdam who resembled Madeleine and said her name was “Maddy”.

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