British police take 67 return flights to Portugal as cost of Madeleine McCann search nears £9million

Daily Mail: British police searching for missing Madeleine McCann spent £16,000 on 67 return flights to Portugal last year, helping the cost of the investigation to soar to nearly £9million. The trips, which cost more than £1,300 per month, came as the Met Police carried out the biggest ever search undertaken by a team of British police overseas, in a bid to find clues about the young girl's disappearance. In June, police flew to the Algarve to carry out forensic searches around Praia da Luz, focusing on scrubland a few hundred metres from the apartment block where Madeleine was last seen alive. But, despite an intensive eight-day search operation involving scores of officers carrying out ground excavations, police failed to find any clues.

According to figures released under a Freedom of Information act request, officers and staff made 48 return flights in the nine months between January and October. A further 19 were made to the end of December. The cost for the flights was £15,945, an average of £238 per return flight. As well as flights for the search, the trips involved several journeys made by officers to liaise with the Portuguese authorities prior to the excavations...read more>>>...

Daily Merlin Review: This is crazy! And misleading IMO. Photographs such as the one above prove 'they' know, and have known where MM is; that she is alive ... news stories like this one are a distraction created by the cloud making machine. The above picture WAS MM without a shadow of a doubt. Yet we will all recall the ridiculous news report of finding the girl and father ... and then the picture of the girl which bore no resemblance to the girl above. This IS MM and she IS alive, and her location IS known.