05-Aug-2008
Story Timeline: 67 days
A little girl who called herself Maddy and claimed she had been taken from her parents while on holiday was seen in a shop in Amsterdam days after Madeleine McCann vanished, according to documents released by the Portuguese police yesterday. The Amsterdam sighting was one of the most intriguing of thousands reported to police in the Algarve, following three-year-old Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007. Another sighting, captured on CCTV, showed a girl bearing a similarity to Madeleine holding the hand of a woman in a motorway service station in Lagos, under five miles from the Praia da Luz resort where Madeleine was holidaying with her parents. That footage was filmed at 11.10am on 4 May last year, 13 hours after Madeleine went missing. Kate and Gerry McCann said the girl was not their daughter. Both sightings were revealed...
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