The British government has awarded a further €175,000 to fund the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The ongoing Operation Grange so far has cost the British taxpayer the sterling equivalent to €12.5 million in the ten year search for any trace of the British girl who disappeared in Praia da Luz on May 3rd, 2007.
This new funding will keep the operation going until at least March 2018. Officers were due to be stood down later this month.
A British Home Office spokesman confirmed that the request for funding has been approved after police claimed in April, 2017 that a "significant line of investigation" was being pursued.
“As with all applications, the necessary resources are regularly reviewed and careful consideration is given before deciding to allocate funds," said the unnamed spokesman.
At its maximum, the team at the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London swelled to 30 in 2013 but latterly has been reduced to “two or three,” according to Scotland Yard last year.
At that time, the London police chief, Bernard Hogan-Howe, said that the investigations would close "in a few months" if no new relevant conclusions had been reached.
'Maddie' disappeared from a tourist apartment in Praia da Luz while her parents had dinner nearby with friends.
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Police short of money??
Why help someone who wouldn't help the local police.
Is the Terms of Reference to be widened??
Makes you think why this family has such treatment?? Fishy or what!!!
If your child goes missing, change your name to McCann, phone the media and your PR agent. Then phone the police.
It has never sat well with me, how you can abandon your children and go out for a meal with your friends..
Charges were never brought for neglect and child abandonment.. WHY NOT ?
More wasted money and none of the now numerous new leads ever get anywhere and nor are they likely to. It is a complete sham and there is so much evidence to suggest so.
Sorry Mike Towl, I red arrowed you by mistake, these icons are too close together!