The Home Office has confirmed they are considering the application - 12 years after the toddler disappeared.
Maddie disappeared from a holiday home in Portugal’s Algarve region in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday.
And Met Police, who launched their own investigation in 2011, have now asked for funding to continue the search for another year.And the Home Office has confirmed they are considering the application.A Home Office spokesperson said: ‘We have received and are considering a request from the MPS to extend funding for Operation Grange until the end of March 2020.’
The funding ran out in September and the Home Office accepted an application to extend the search until the end of March 2019.Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an artist’s impression of how their daughter might look at the age of nine Sky News’ crime correspondent Martin Brunt said today’s news could mean ‘new confidence there is a breakthrough’.He said: ‘Great news for Madeline McCann’s parents because, as each period of funding comes to an end they must fear Scotland Yard is about to pull the plug.
The investigation scaled down in 2015, but detectives have since explored ‘one final theory’ in the case.
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