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Thursday 25 February 2021
Police said the young person was aged three to four years and was possibly wearing pyjamas.
Metropolitan Police said they will release the ‘relevant material at the relevant time’.
Police hope that analysis of mobile phone data from thousands of people who were in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz when the toddler disappeared could provide a new lead.
Police are trawling through the phone records of people who were staying at the Portuguese resort at the time the little girl went missing.
The McCann family are suing a former policeman over a book he wrote about the missing person case.
The former detective published a book alleging that Madeleine McCann’s parents were involved in her disappearance from a vacation home in 2007.
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
An update issued today detailed new findings and 38 people of interest.
The missing three-year-old vanished from the family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal six years ago.
The famous image appeared on the VoucherDigg site advertising discounts on holidays.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police say they are looking to have the investigation into the girl’s disappearance nearly five years ago reopened. One detective said that they were working off the possibility that Madeleine could still be alive as a new age progression photo was released today.
The Wikileaks chief has hit out at press coverage of his case, revealing that he has made official complaints on 75 occasions.
Detectives investigating McCann’s disappearance four years ago met with Spanish authorities recently following reports the child was taken to Barcelona.
Catch up on the day’s biggest stories as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.
The Leveson Inquiry has been hearing evidence for a third day from people whose lives were affected by the UK press.
The Leveson inquiry today also heard evidence from a former advisor to supermodel Elle Macpherson and the parents of a boy who say he took his life after upsetting media coverage of his sister’s death.
Kate and Gerry McCann have studied photos of the child, who was accompanied by a French woman and a Belgian man.
Brendan O’Connor show spent over €5,000 more on guests than Ryan Tubridy-fronted show. Between them, they shelled out €265,318 on filling the guest seats last season.
David Cameron writes to the McCanns to pledge a fresh inquiry into missing Maddie, who would turn 8 yesterday.
Our nightly wrap-up of what’s been going on… including some hints on who to watch in tonight’s Eurovision semi-final.
Four years on from Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, a chilling picture of police incompetence and paedophile activity in the Algarve emerges in a new book by her mother.
Kate and Gerry McCann welcome new information suggesting their missing daughter may be in the US, over three years after her disappearance.
Nine things to know this morning, including: €5m funding for ghost estate issues; GE11 campaigns focus on jobs and constitutional reform; and private investigator believe Madeleine McCann is in the US.
Leaked cables detail how British police developed evidence against Kate and Gerry McCann after they were declared to be formal suspects in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.
Kate and Gerry McCann reveal that they are running out of cash to continue looking for their daughter.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS faced mounting criticism over its messaging around Covid-19 restrictions, particularly in the last few days.
Our political correspondent Christina Finn writes that the confusion about how the government plans to handle the next phase of the pandemic was not just about mixed messages, but also about plain old bad communication.
She breaks down the numerous bumps for government communications in recent days here.
Government themselves are not as convinced. Taoiseach Micheál Martin told reporters last night that he didn’t think the government had a problem with communicating a clear plan, while Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said this morning that if there have been any failures “we have to accept responsibility for that”.
Today we’re asking: Do you think government communication around Covid-19 restrictions has been clear in recent weeks?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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