MADDIE COPS DEMAND MORE CASH
AFTER 11 YEARS AND £11 M ...
POLICE are to demand more cash so they can continue the hunt for missing Madeleine McCann, we can reveal.
The Metropolitan Police’s inquiry into her disappearance from her parents’ holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 has so far cost taxpayers £11.6million.
POLICE want more cash to carry on the search for Madeleine McCann.
They are “in dialogue” with the Home Office to obtain another grant to continue their investigation.
She vanished, aged three, from her parents’ holiday apartment in Portugal 11 years ago.
The Metropolitan Police’s Operation Grange probe has so far cost taxpayers £11.6million. It has been financed by Home Office grants but funding is due to run out in three weeks.
Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry, who maintain their daughter could still be alive, reportedly fear the Government may pull the plug amid outcry over police budget cuts.
But we can reveal detectives are to ask for more cash as they think they can crack the case.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “The investigation continues and we are in dialogue with the Home Office over more funding.”
The Home Office said it had not yet received a formal request for further cash. But if police make a bid it would be “carefully considered”.
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