LONDON: British detectives investigating the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal published two electronic images yesterday of a man they said was seen carrying a child on the night she vanished.
Police said the man was of “vital importance” in their quest to discover what happened to the British youngster, who disappeared from her family’s holiday apartment just a few days before her fourth birthday.
The two e-fits, plus others of different people, will be shown in a major prime time British television appeal which will also be broadcast in Germany and The Netherlands. The BBC programme will set out a reworked time-line of events surrounding blonde-haired Madeleine’s disappearance on May 3, 2007, in the south coast resort of Praia da Luz.
“The sighting was during the evening of the 3rd of May around 10pm, and it was of a man walking down the street with a child in his arms,” said Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, the senior investigating officer in the case.
“The child was described as about three to four years old, with blonde hair, possibly wearing pyjamas. That’s why we’re so interested in this particular incident,” he told BBC television.
The images were drawn up based on descriptions from a group of witnesses. They said the child did not seem in distress. The witnesses described the man in the e-fit as being white, aged between 20 and 40 years old, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean-shaven.
AFP
