The UK Home Office has this week denied reports that London had requested satellite images from Washington for the day of the disappearance of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann.

Reports over the weekend suggested that talks with London and Washington had resulted in American secret services agreeing to hand over satellite images of Praia da Luz of the day that Madeleine went missing.

After the Sunday Express had run the story on its front page over the weekend, the Correio da Manha gave similar coverage to the story on Monday.

However, it was later confirmed that no satellite images existed of Praia da Luz on May 3rd, 2007, as available ones were all pointed to a NATO exercise off the coast of Cadiz.

Former lead investigator into the case, Gonçalo Amaral confirmed Portuguese police had filed a request for these images more than two years ago, but were told none were available.

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