A 53-YEAR-OLD mother was yesterday forced to deny that she or her fair-haired five-year-old daughter had anything to do with missing British toddler Madeleine McCann after a friend in Sydney reported her to police. Shocked Judith Aron said: "I have no connection to the little girl."
The search for Madeleine has swept across at least four Australian states with a string of sightings after private detectives revealed they were looking for a Victoria Beckham lookalike with an Australian accent.An identikit picture of the woman was released by British police last week after a witness came forward to say the woman had approached him in Barcelona three days after Madeleine went missing in Portugal in 2007 and said: "Are you here to deliver my daughter?"
Ms Aron, who by a bizarre twist lives in Madeline Street, Glen Iris, a Melbourne suburb, said: "I'm 53 years old and I certainly don't look like a Spice Girl. I'm shocked that anybody may have thought that I have some connection to this case. I can't understand how it may have happened. I can honestly say I have no connection to the little girl. I haven't left Australia since 2000, so there's no way I could have been in Portugal or Spain around the time she went missing. My mum passed away in 2000 and I was looking after my elderly father after that so I wasn't able to go overseas."
However, Ms Aron said she felt terrible for Gerry and Kate, Madeleine's parents. (Sydney Morning Herald)
