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Madeleine McCann Search: Three Main Dig Sites

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX 7 YEARS ON

NEWS MAY 2014

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Original Source: Sky news 07 May 2014
10:54pm UK, Wednesday 07 May 2014
 
Forensics officers will use ground-penetrating radar equipment to aid the search at three Praia da Luz sites.
 
 [VIDEO in link above]  The beach area will be one of the dig sites
 
Scotland Yard detectives are in Portugal to oversee the excavation of a number of sites as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The digs for evidence are set to take place at three principle locations around the resort in Praia da Luz where the youngster vanished in 2007.

Scotland Yard detectives believe the sites were not properly explored at the time of her disappearance.
 
Three principle dig sites: road, waste ground and beach area
 
One is a road just below the apartment block where trenches were dug before Madeleine went missing, that were filled in the day after she vanished.

There is a waste ground to the side of the apartment block where a man was seen carrying a child, according to some witnesses, soon after Madeleine disappeared.
 
Officers from Scotland Yard arrive at Faro Airport. Pic: EXCLUSIVEPIX
 
And there is the beach area where over the years there have been reports of activity, of people seen there acting suspiciously.

British detectives have been meeting their Portuguese counterparts, and forensics officers are due to use ground-penetrating radar equipment to aid the search at the three sites.

It is not known exactly when the excavations will begin.

Madeleine disappeared from the apartment she was staying in with her parents and two siblings on May 3, 2007. She was three years old at the time.
 

They will oversee excavations at three sites. Pic: EXCLUSIVEPIX

 
Officers from the Metropolitan Police have also identified three potential suspects they want to talk to, not necessarily around Madeleine's disappearance, but who had been involved in break-ins in the area.

However, they have reportedly been refused permission by Portuguese authorities to search the homes of these burglary suspects, who used to work at the Ocean Complex at the time Madeleine vanished.

Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt, in Praia da Luz, said: "That's a blow for Scotland Yard."
 
 
Madeleine was three years old when she vanished
Brunt said disagreements over leaks to the media may delay British police in their efforts to scour areas they will be given access to.

"I'm not sure that those searches are going to begin quite so quickly," he said.

"The Portuguese are making it very clear that they were not happy with journalists being briefed. It's not something that happens in this country and in fact, the Portuguese authorities, according to the Scotland Yard message last night, had threatened to stop any of the work once it begins if they hear that Scotland Yard are talking to reporters, or indeed if reporters are in any way disrupting the work.
 
The investigation is based from Faro
 
"I get a sense that because of this developing row, that may put off what is going to happen soon, but maybe not in the next couple of days as we anticipated."

Kate McCann told Sky News last week, on the seventh anniversary of her daughter's disappearance, that she needed to know what happened - even if it was the "worst-case scenario".

"Madeleine's either alive or she isn't and we can't change that," she said.

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