•  Psychic says he will visit apartment where she vanished from to pick up what spirits say

• TV medium, 62, says if she is dead she will be reincarnated as 'another little girl'  

Psychic Derek Acorah has today vowed to fly to Portugal join the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann and turn his findings over to police.

After a £2million Scotland Yard review and a five-year long worldwide search the television medium says he hopes he can solve the mystery - as he promotes his theatre tour.

It was reported today that Mr Acorah said that Madeleine is dead and has been for some time.

When contacted by the MailOnline today, the 62-year-old refused to repeat the comments and said he had been 'misquoted' by The Sun. 

'In the spirit world': Derek Acorah, right, is joining the search for Madeleine McCann and claims she will be reincarnated as another little girl

He said he would fly to Praia da Luz to see if 'the spirits' can solve the mystery of what happened.

Kate and Gerry McCann have always insisted that their missing daughter may still be alive. They recently marked the fifth anniversary of their daughter's disappearance. 

Mr Acorah said that if Madeleine is dead she may well be reincarnated as another little girl.  

'No one knows whether she has died but with children if they didn't have full lives they are reincarnated quite quickly,' he said.

'I am willing to go over to Portugal to help search for Madeleine. I will go to the place where she went missing and see what I can pick up.

Anguish: Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann with a picture of their daughter as she would appear aged nine. They have never given up hope that she is still alive

I would ask the world of spirits in the area what happened and anything I found out I would pass over to police to help with their investigation.

Psychic: Derek Acorah said today he is willing to go to Portugal to help with the police investigation

He added that 'no one' knew if Madeleine was dead.

Critics have questioned why the television psychic has waited until now to join the search for the missing child - as he promotes a tour.

Psychic Derek - who used to host TV's Most Haunted - was allegedly exposed as a faker by psychologist Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe.

While filming at Bodmin gaol in Cornwall he said he was being possessed by Kreed Kafer - an anagram of Derek Faker - which Dr O'Keeffe had invented and mentioned when he was within earshot.

Mr Acorah said there were four mediums in Portugal at the time and he 'didn't want to get in their way'.

'It was in my mind to go over and search for Madeleine when she first disappeared but there were already four mediums over there,' he added.

'I was surplus to requirements and I'm not going to be getting in another medium's ground.'

The £2million police review of the Madeleine McCann case will examine calls from psychics which were previously ignored, it has been revealed.

Detectives are studying around 100 logs of calls that were discounted because the callers said they were psychics or had dreamt about the high-profile investigation.

Critics said the decision to include information from ‘supernatural’ sources was a waste of resources.

Scotland Yard officers who have been called in to review the case last month released a new picture of how Madeleine would look now as a nine-year-old.

A team of 35 Metropolitan Police officers are examining more than 100 leads as they renew the hunt for the missing child.

Mr Acorah said today he never went over to Portugal to join in the search because other psychics were already there.