Madeleine in Morocco ....(???)

THE hunt for Madeleine McCann is focusing on Morocco after another credible sighting was made by a British tourist two months after she disappeared. Samantha Peart, 43, said she saw a girl matching Madeleine’s description in a remote village in northern Morocco on July 10.

She reported the sighting to local police after returning home and the information was passed on to Portuguese detectives but she has heard nothing since. Their latest theory is that Madeleine died in a fall down steps outside her parents’ holiday apartment, it was reported yesterday.

The sighting was not far from another by a Spanish tourist who spotted a girl she insists was Madeleine with a woman believed to be a member of a people-smuggling gang.

With attention increasingly turning towards the North African country, television adverts in Arabic will this week be screened across the country as part of a major new campaign to find missing Madeleine.

Parents Kate and Gerry are clinging to the hope their four-year-daughter is still alive and may have been smuggled into North Africa. Private investigators, including ex-SAS soldiers, are believed to be on the ground in Morocco following up leads. (Daily Express)