Team McCann
is now hiring a fifth group of private
investigators to help with the search.
Mr Kennedy,
who has five children with his wife
Christine, lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and
made his money through double-glazing firm
Everest. He had not met the McCanns before
offering his help but now speaks to them
almost daily.
A source
said: 'Mr Kennedy got involved after seeing
Kate on television after she became an
arguido. He felt compelled to do something.
A fifth company is going to be hired.
'Everything
that can be done is being done. But it is
like looking for a grain of sand on a sea
shore. The team are just desperate for leads
now.'
The couple's
lawyers are still sifting through 13,000
pages of Portuguese police files, released
last month. One team of investigators
believed they had found Madeleine in Morocco
last year ' but it turned out to be an
American girl being kept against her will in
a dispute between her parents.
'It was
desperately disappointing when it turned out
not to be Madeleine,' said a source. 'It was
a low point for everyone concerned.'
Madeleine's
Fund is already paying investigators Metodo
3, Control Risks, Oakley International and
an unnamed fourth company.
Clarence
Mitchell, the McCanns' spokesman, said: 'We
will leave no stone unturned in finding
Madeleine.'