Police request another six months of funding to investigate disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Matilda Long
Yahoo News UK13 September 2018
Scotland Yard has requested a further six months’ worth of funding to continue their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Police have put in a request to the Home Office to support their joint operation with Portuguese police.
Investigation have been running since three-year-old Madeleine vanished in 2007 from her parents’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.
So far the hunt has cost a total of £11.6million.
Earlier this week it was reported that the search could be shelved within three weeks after running out of funding.
But the Met has asked Sajid Javid to continue to pay for Operation Grange, which was launched in 2011 after a Portuguese inquiry failed to make any progress.
British officers have so far gone through 40,000 documents produced by Portuguese police in the original investigation, as well as information from eight teams of private investigators.
About 600 “persons of interest” have been examined and several reported sightings of Madeleine all over the world have been assessed.
In May, Kate and Gerry posted a tribute to mark their daughter’s 15th birthday.
They told her: “We love you and we’re waiting for you and we’re never going to give up.”
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