Businessman and German tourist, Frank Bode, said that he saw a girl resembling the missing Madelaine McCann with a German family. The 42-year-old took a blurry photo of the child who he said was British and did not seem to fit in with the family. Maddie vanished in Portugal in 2007 days before her fourth birthday. She would be nine now and went missing from her parents’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.

Bode was so convinced it was Madeleine McCann that he immediately contacted “Find Madeleine” investigators in the UK. Scotland Yard cops then spoke to him and are following up his claims. Bode saw the possible Maddie at the Ibiza airport as he returned home and said, “My intuition told me the youngster, who was seven to ten years old, could be Madeleine." "She didn’t seem to fit with her family at all. Her father was clearly German, as were her two brothers — both around ten to 12 years old — but her mother appeared to be British." "They were all speaking German — except for the girl, who I heard speaking British English.”

Bode took the photo of the possible Maddie on a transit bus taking passengers to the plane. And while on the two-hour Lufthansa flight to Munich he sat close to the family and kept an eye on the girl. He also said, "Her mother, who bore no resemblance to her, was a strange woman who didn’t talk on the entire trip."

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 SUN-31-08-2012