Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are probing an “important new lead” that she was snatched by a trafficking gang.
“This is an important new line of inquiry which could provide an explanation on whether Madeleine was abducted and transported away,” a source told the paper. “It raises hope that she could still be alive.”
Madeleine disappeared from the family’s apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007 aged three.
In April the Home Office granted the investigation, called Operation Grange, £95,000 to cover another six months of the inquiry.
“There is specific information which is being investigated,” the source said.
“At present, funding is due to run out next April when it will be reviewed again,” the source said.
A Home Office spokesman said on Sunday: “We have already set out that we have provided the Metropolitan Police with the funding required for Operation Grange to continue until at least the end of this financial year. The resources required will be reviewed again at this point.”
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