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Madeleine McCann detectives given extra funding to hunt new 'person of significance' | Madeleine McCann detectives given extra funding to hunt new 'person of significance' |
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Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been granted additional funding to hunt a new “person of significance”. | |
The Home Office has allocated an extra £154,000 to Scotland Yard to pursue a “critical line of inquiry” and extend the search for the girl, who went missing during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007. | |
The funding means Operation Grange, the Metropolitan Police’s inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance, will continue until the end of March 2018. | |
Four Scotland Yard detectives are currently working on the case. | Four Scotland Yard detectives are currently working on the case. |
The force launched Operation Grange six years ago following criticism by British authorities of the Portuguese investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance. | |
The extra funding brings the total cost of the Met’s inquiry to £11.3m. | |
“It is as much to rule the person out of the inquiry as anything else,” a source told the Sunday Times. | |
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Following an application from the Metropolitan Police, the Home Office has confirmed funding for Operation Grange until the end of March 2018. | |
“As with all applications, the resources required are reviewed regularly and careful consideration is given before any funding is allocated.” | |
Three-year-old Madeleine vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on 3 May, 2007. | |
Her disappearance sparked one of the most high-profile, and costly, police investigations of recent times. | Her disappearance sparked one of the most high-profile, and costly, police investigations of recent times. |
In 2015 Scotland Yard cut the number of detectives working on the case from 29 to four. | In 2015 Scotland Yard cut the number of detectives working on the case from 29 to four. |
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