A Scotland Yard team flew to the Algarve after British authorities sent a letter to Portuguese police requesting help with tracking down and interviewing three burglars who were in the area when Madeleine vanished.
DCI Andy Redwood, who is leading the investigation for the Metropolitan Police, was pictured arriving in Faro with three colleagues.
They held meetings with senior members of Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria and are believed to have discussed leads recently identified by the Operation Grange investigation team in the UK.
The British investigators hope for a breakthrough in the case of missing Madeleine (“Maddie”) McCann. British police have traveled according to data of several British media to Portugal to hear there together with Portuguese investigators three burglars. This should have been at the time of the abduction of the girl near the apartment where the McCanns made 2007 holiday in May, and have made after the disappearance of Maddie numerous calls.
The four staff from Scotland Yard arrived on Tuesday on the Algarve coast, the newspaper “Daily Mirror” reported, citing an anonymous source. The London police did not confirm the information.
The Abduction of hardly four years old girl sparked a worldwide media coverage, numerous theories revolve around the fate of Maddie. The intensive search for the girl remained so far in vain. After the Portuguese police had in 2008 the investigation set, led the British police at the request of the government in London later own investigations. In October of Portugal police began the investigation again.
Mobile phone records show that the men made numerous calls to each other in the hours after Kate and Gerry McCann discovered their daughter – three years old at the time – had disappeared from her room.
No arrests have been made since the Met set up Operation Grange in 2011 to review the case.
Portuguese police reopened their investigation last year, more than three years after it had been shelved.
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