A BRITISH woman claims she saw Madeleine McCann with a man who looked
“like a gypsy”.
Yvonne Tunnicliffe said she was certain the girl was the missing
youngster as she was the spitting image of Maddie’s dad Gerry.
Yvonne, 63, saw the girl at a supermarket in Alhaurin el Grande in
Spain and contacted police a week later.
But when they took the ex-sales assistant to examine CCTV tapes from the
shop, the manager said footage was routinely deleted after seven days.
The sighting was in 2009, but Yvonne has come forward again to expat
news site The Olive Press after she read other
claims Maddie could have been snatched by a gypsy gang.
Yvonne said: “My whole body shook when I saw her. She looked just like
her daddy.
“The girl’s demeanour bothered me. I don’t think she belonged to the
man
because she didn’t look anything like him.”
Madeleine vanished just before her fourth birthday in 2007 while on
holiday with her parents in Portugal’s Praia da Luz, 220 miles west of
Alhaurin el Grande.
A spokesman for the McCanns said: “Any verifiable information will go to
police and private investigators and they will act where appropriate.”
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