Police issue e-fits of man in McCann inquiry
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British detectives investigating the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal published two electronic images yesterday of a man they said was seen carrying a child on the night she vanished.
Police said the man was of “vital importance” in their quest to discover what happened to the British girl, who disappeared from her family’s holiday apartment days before her fourth birthday.
The two e-fits, plus others of different people, were shown in a major primetime British television appeal yesterday, also broadcast in Germany and The Netherlands.
The BBC program set out a reworked timeline of events surrounding blonde-haired McCann’s disappearance on May 3, 2007, in the south coast resort of Praia da Luz.
“The sighting was during the evening of the 3rd of May around 10pm, and it was of a man walking down the street with a child in his arms,” said Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, the senior investigating officer in the case.
“The child was described as about three to four years old, with blonde hair, possibly wearing pyjamas. That’s why we’re so interested in this particular incident,” he told BBC television.
The images were based on descriptions from a group of witnesses. They said the child did not seem in distress.
The witnesses described the man in the e-fit as being white, aged between 20 and 40 years old, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean-shaven.
One image shows the man with a fuller jaw than the other.
Portuguese authorities closed their investigation in 2008, but Britain’s Scotland Yard police headquarters spent two years reviewing the evidence at the British government’s request and opened their own probe in July this year.
Redwood stressed that the man in the e-fits may be completely innocent.
“Whilst this man may or may not be the key to unlocking this investigation, tracing and speaking to him is of vital importance to us,” he said.
The BBC’s hour-long “Crimewatch” included a new 25-minute reconstruction as well as live interviews with the girl’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann, who launched a global media campaign to find their daughter and still hold out hope she is alive.
Police said they had constructed a new timeline.
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