Several new leads said to be “significant” have emerged from the North African country and are being urgently followed up. (The Sun 1st January 2008)
The new push to find the lost four-year-old comes after numerous recent appeals by Kate and Gerry generated fresh leads. The pair, both 39-year-old doctors, begged for information in a postal blitz on 11,500 homes and businesses in Morocco.
Investigators from the Metodo 3 agency hired by the locals and tourists to look out for Maddie. There have been a string of possible sightings in the country.
The most significant came in September when doctor Naouhal Malhi claimed she saw Maddie being bundled into a taxi in Fnideq. Mrs Malhi tried to clamber into the cab – heading to the village of Housima. But a woman holding the girl would not let her in. The middle-aged woman, from the Berber ethnic minority, would have paid £180 for the taxi trip – a month’s wage for most Moroccans. And she paid for every seat in the cab so the driver would not pick up anyone else.
Several new leads said to be “significant” have emerged from the North African country and are being urgently followed up. (The Sun 1st January 2008)