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Home Staff
The focus of the search for Madeleine McCann is understood to have moved to Malta
after several possible sightings.
In-Nazzjon, a newspaper on the island, reported that
two tourists had reported seeing a child matching the four-year-old girl’s
description in Valletta
on Saturday. Another four people subsequently came forward with possible
sightings on the island.
Ray Roberts, a British tourist, said that he and his wife, Norma, had given
statements to investigators. He said that he saw a girl resembling Madeleine
wearing what appeared to be a black wig and being held roughly by an
Arabic-looking man.
He said that the girl tripped and was spoken to brusquely by the man in
English.
Mr Roberts, 49, from Anglesey, North Wales,
told The Sun: “He said, ‘Get up little girl’. It was obviously not his first
language so it seemed odd that he had to speak to her in English. The more I
think about what I saw, the more convinced I became that it may well have been
Maddie.”
Michael Caesar, Malta’s
assistant commissioner of police, said the reports were being taken seriously.
As with all other European countries, police on the island have been issued
with a photograph of Madeleine, who is believed to have been snatched from her
bed in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on May
3.
A spokeswoman for Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, said the family
was not giving too much credibility to the claims at this stage. “Their whole
attitude from day one has been that they know there are going to be lots of
bits of information but if they expended energy on every single one of them,
what would they be like by now?”
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