Some of the information is about precise location or co-ordinates and that allows us to go to the place and we will check itDaily Express Headline ''Maddy: Parents now travel to Madrid"; extract:
"As the investigation continues, police in Portugal said they were trawling through hoards of emails and messages from clairvoyants who say they know where Madeleine whereabouts.
The Policia Judiciara (PJ) said they had two dossiers, 8cm thick, of apparent visions and sightings of the little girl. They are trying to find out if one of the messages could be from the kidnapper.
PJ spokesman Olegario Sousa said each clairvoyant claim was being taken seriously.
Asked if he thought they could be from Madeleine’s abductor, he said: “That is one of the reasons that we cannot discard anything. We must check them all in case it might be from the kidnapper.“
But the problem is the same, if there are indications which are enough to follow then we will go.
“If there isn’t, we cannot do anything.” Mr Sousa said some descriptions were as vague as dreams about a man in a house with trees and a road.
“Some of the information is about precise location or co-ordinates and that allows us to go to the place and we will check it. Just a few days ago we got one address near Lagos but it didn’t amount to anything.”Mr Sousa said he did not believe they had heard from Madeleine’s abductor:
“If it was a message from the kidnapper, it will offer enough clues to help us to go to the right place.”
The police spokesman said it was not unusual to investigate the claims of clairvoyants but added it was only one line of investigation.
“In this case the amount of information we have received is huge,” he said. “Any information that comes to us, if there is enough to follow, we will check.”
He said the visions - which are sent through every day - came from a mix of Portuguese and British sources. Psychics have also contacted several news organisations in the UK about Madeleine."