"Detectives were searching for this Victoria Beckham lookalike after asking a Brit tourist: "Have you got her? Have you got the child".
The suspect, who spoke with an Australian accent, was reportedly waiting impatiently outside a bar in Barcelona.
It happened in the city's marine area, three days after Maddie vanished.
The woman was then spotted having a heated conversation with a local man in what appeared to be fluent Spanish.
She was last seen walking towards a hospital and more distant ferry and cruise ship terminals.
another Australian report
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Mystery woman sought over missing Maddie
Paola Totaro Europe Correspondent and Dylan Welch
A SLIGHT woman with short brown hair, an Australian or Kiwi accent and a resemblance to the pop star Victoria Beckham, is the focus of a renewed global hunt for Madeleine McCann, the little girl who went missing from a Portuguese holiday resort two years ago.
The search, which has cost British police close to $1.5 million, has shifted suddenly to Australia following new information provided to investigators by two British men.
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http://www.smh.com.au/world/mystery-woman-sought-over-missing-maddie-20090806-ebfj.htmlMissing toddler Madeleine McCann, inset an identikit of a woman who is the focus of a renewed global hunt.
Missing toddler Madeleine McCann, inset an identikit of a woman who is the focus of a renewed global hunt.
It is understood that the woman they are looking for spoke to the men outside a bar near a Barcelona marina well after midnight on May 7, about three days after Madeleine went missing from a holiday apartment in the seaside resort of Praia da Luz.
The popular marina, about half a day's drive away from the Praia de Luz resort, is frequented by tourists as well as locals and the woman was noticed because she appeared nervy and had been pacing as if waiting for somebody.
The man she talked to described her as between 30 and 35, slim, about 5ft 2in and with short brown hair.
She was wearing expensive looking blue jeans and a jersey top, possibly pastel-coloured.
The incident sparked fears she had been snatched to order and an e-fit of the suspect was released.
Despite a massive investigation by Portuguese and British police and huge publicity worldwide, she was never found."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3408355/chilling-e-fits-of-suspects-wanted-in-the-hunt-for-madeleine-mccann-over-the-10-years-since-she-vanished/another article released in August 2007.
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AUGUST 8 2009McCann suspect asked for 'daughter'
Geesche Jacobsen
AN AUSTRALIAN woman sought over the missing British child Madeleine McCann approached a man and asked: ''Are you here to deliver my new daughter?'' London newspapers reported yesterday.
The conversation is said to have taken place at a bar in the Port Olimpic Marina area of Barcelona, Spain, three days after the three-year-old girl vanished in Portugal more than two years ago.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/mccann-suspect-asked-for-daughter-20090807-ed7z.htmlAn image of the woman police want to speak to over the disappearance of Maddie McCann (right).
An image of the woman police want to speak to over the disappearance of Maddie McCann (right).
On Thursday the McCann family made public a sketch and description of a woman with an Australian, or possibly New Zealand, accent who also spoke excellent Spanish and some Catalan. The woman was described as looking like Victoria Beckham.
According to the British newspapers, the woman, who apparently thought the man was a courier, asked him: ''Have you got my daughter?''"
http://www.smh.com.au/national/mccann-suspect-asked-for-daughter-20090807-ed7z.html 
