It's not Maddie: DNA tests prove New Zealand girl is not missing Madeleine McCann
- UK police requested a DNA sample from the girl
- It follows latest 'sighting' on New Year's Eve in Queenstown last year
- Girl is frequently mistaken for Madeleine, who vanished in 2007
- She volunteered to undergo test to confirm she is not the missing girl
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 09:41, 13 February 2013 | UPDATED: 11:02, 13 February 2
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In accordance with the discussion re children's rights it seems this little girl was fed up being mistaken for Madeleine and had no problem having her cheek swabbed.
An interesting future situation might be were the parents opposed to acceding to the request but the child was willing to go ahead.
The little girl in New Zealand resembled Madeleine so much, down to the fleck in her eye I believe, that she was thought to be Madeleine on more than one occasion.
Yet she was never checked out in any way by the Policia Judiciaria.
NZ police defend inaction on McCann sighting ABC News Australia
Posted: 11:00AM BST UKNew Zealand police have defended their lack of action over a possible sighting of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, saying they were never asked to do anything.
Inspector David Campbell said all details of the December 2007 sighting were passed to Interpol and no instructions came back for a follow-up investigation.
:: :: :: :: ::Inspector Campbell, the regional police commander, said police took the footage of the child - who had the appearance of Madeleine - and the family with her and forwarded it to Interpol.
"The lead jurisdiction, in this case Portugal, directs how the case progresses and it has not asked NZ police for any follow-up to date," Inspector Campbell said, adding that the NZ file remained open.
The dossier released to British newspapers showed information which police in the United States, Europe and North Africa considered important was also discarded.
http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Dossier.htmHad that little girl and her family moved to another country before she was eliminated from the inquiry, there would always have remained the suspicion she may have been Madeleine.
Distressing when the only action required of the Portuguese was to pass the information to Madeleine's parents for their detectives to check out; an action which would have had the by product of ensuring the little girl did not recieve the unwarranted attention she did.
Out there could be a little girl who had been moved on before she could be checked out for elimination purposes. That child could have been Madeleine.
She had the right to be looked for, but she was denied that right. She could therefore be alive and well because for so many years while she remained recognisable she was not looked for quite simply because incoming credible information was ignored.