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Madeleine McCann went missing from
Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in
2007
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Scotland Yard has now requested more
money to investigate her
disappearance
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More than £11 million has been spent
so far on the probe to find the
missing girl
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Detectives investigating the
disappearance of Madeleine McCann have
applied for more funding for the search.
The Home Office confirmed that it is
considering an application from the
Metropolitan Police for more money to
keep the probe, called Operation Grange,
going.
A spokeswoman said: 'The Home Office has
provided funding to the Metropolitan
Police for Operation Grange and the
resources required are reviewed
regularly with careful consideration
given before any new funding is
allocated.' |
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Scotland Yard has asked the
Home Office for more money
in the investigation into
the disappearance of
Madeleine McCann (pictured:
left, aged three; and right,
in 2007) |
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Government funding for the investigation
has been agreed every six months, with
£154,000 being granted from October last
year until the end of March.
More than £11 million has been spent so
far on the probe to find the missing
girl, who vanished from the family's
holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in
Portugal in May 2007, aged three.
The size of the extra cash award raised
hopes police were closing in on
identifying whoever abducted the
three-year-old but also led to questions
about what the money would be spent on,
as only four officers remain on the
case. |
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Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry,
insist the inquiry must continue as
there is 'absolutely nothing' to suggest
she has been harmed.
Not one piece of forensic evidence
linked to her has been found since she
vanished.
And despite thousands of tip-offs and
potential sightings, police have not
confirmed that a single one was her.
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Last week it was revealed
Madeleine's parents have set
aside almost £750,000 to
fund a private search if
police stop looking for
their missing daughter |
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Last week it was revealed Madeleine's
parents have set aside almost £750,000
to fund a private search if police stop
looking for their missing daughter.
The Find Madeleine Fund consists chiefly
of donations and profits from mother
Kate's book on the child's disappearance
in Portugal.
The 49-year-old has made £793,516 from
the bestselling Madeleine: Our
daughter's disappearance and the
continuing search for her.
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said
the Find Madeleine Fund gives the
McCanns the chance to 'pick up their own
inquiries again, if they choose, with
private investigators'.
Madeleine, three, vanished from an
apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007
while her parents were eating tapas with
friends at a restaurant nearby.
She would now be nearly 15. |
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More than £11 million has
been spent so far on the
probe to find the missing
girl, who vanished from the
family's holiday apartment
(pictured) in Praia da Luz
in Portugal in May 200 |
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Operation Grange has been one of the
longest, most high-profile and costly
police investigations in history.
Launched in May 2011, officers have
sifted (and translated) 40,000 documents
produced by Portuguese police who
conducted the initial investigation, and
by the eight teams of private detectives
who have worked on the case.
Some 600 'persons of interest' have been
examined and 'sightings' of Madeleine —
in Brazil, India, Morocco and Paraguay,
on a German plane and in a New Zealand
supermarket — assessed.
The Portuguese investigation of
Madeleine's disappearance was criticised
by the British authorities as being not
fit for purpose.
Scotland Yard began an investigative
review into the disappearance in 2011,
on the orders of then-Prime Minister
David Cameron. |
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