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#TopStory,#SexCrimes : Maddie McCann investigator believes she’s alive and imprisoned by paedophiles !
Madeleine McCann could still be alive imprisoned in a lair and have “no idea” who she is, a former top cop who once searched for her has revealed.
He believes she is being kept against her will under a false identity and could even still be in Portugal — where she vanished as a three-year-old in May 2007 — or in neighbouring Spain.
The retired Detective Inspector, David Edgar spoke out after the Home Office announced last week it had granted an extra £150,000 ($264,000) to Scotland Yard to continue searching for the world’s most high profile missing child.
Mr Edgar, who passed all his findings to the Operation Grange team when they took over the search in May 2011, said officers could be chasing up two old or new leads.
Mr Edgar, 61, who was previously employed by Maddie’s parents for three years, told The Sun that police may have had a recent tip off from someone known to the kidnappers — providing them with a second new lead.
He said: “I’ve always thought that whoever is responsible will have confided in someone else. They usually do and it is very rare that they don’t even if it takes years.
Mr Edgar added: “She could literally be anywhere in the world but my hunch is that she is in Portugal. The chance that she may have been smuggled out of the country without being detected is highly unlikely.
Mr Edgar believes Maddie — who if alive would now be aged 15 — could be living with her captor in a hideaway home or underground den inland from the popular seaside towns on the Algarve from where she was snatched.
The 11-year-old schoolgirl was abducted from a street in Tahoe, California, in June 1991, on her way to school and was kept imprisoned for 18 years.
She was found alive in August 2009.
Mr Edgar said: “There is every possibility that Madeleine is still alive and could be being hidden somewhere and having no idea even who she is and that she is at the centre of a worldwide hunt for her. He said the vast wilderness where he believes the teenager could be languishing may be almost impossible to search completely.
Maddie vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz eleven and a half years ago just days before her fourth birthday. She had been left alone sleeping with her younger twin siblings while her parents were dining in a nearby tapas restaurant with friends.
Op Grange team, who had been thought to be focusing on just one, told Kate and Gerry during a meeting they had “two specific and active” lines of inquiry.
The McCanns are “greatly encouraged” that police could finally be closing in on their daughter’s kidnapper.
The Home Office have so far handed out £11.75 million ($20 million) of taxpayers’ money for the high-profile search.
Police refuse to make public any clues about the suspects they are determined to track down for fear of them going to ground.
He said: “It’s a very delicate case but officers would not have requested extra funding if they didn’t need it. Whether they’ll crack it, it’s impossible to say but everyone hopes there is a positive outcome.
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Mr Edgar, who has had more than 30 years experience with Cheshire Police and the Royal Ulster Constabulary, stopped working for the McCanns when the Met Police came on board in May 2011 on orders of then Prime Minister David Cameron.
Maddie’s eminent heart doctor dad Gerry, 50, said during an emotional BBC Radio 4 interview in September that he dreamt his daughter was still alive and believes they will one day be reunited.
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