McCann detectives check new leads

Claims that Madeleine was snatched to order by a paedophile ring A cluster of new leads in Holland and Belgium were being examined by detectives leading the search for Madeleine McCann. Belgian police said they had received more than 100 reports of possible sightings of the youngster, after it was revealed a Scotland Yard informant suggested Madeleine was stolen to order by a Belgian paedophile gang. And artist sketches of a man and woman seen in an Amsterdam shop with a girl who identified herself as "Maddie" were released. The pictures were drawn by a police artist on the evidence of Anna Stam, the 41-year-old shopkeeper who saw the couple with a girl resembling Madeleine last year. The drawings, commissioned by the Daily Mirror, show a swarthy, dark-haired man with pencil moustache and short dark hair and a light... [read full story]