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Maddie:
Cops' bill hits £6m
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COSTS SOAR
SCOTLAND Yard's bill for its probe into
Madeleine McCann's disappearance has
topped £6million, The Sun can reveal.
In the last three months a major public
appeal for information has pushed the
cost of Operation Grange up by
£1.64million — and the total is now
likely to rocket to £10million-plus.
A Freedom of Information request showed
the bill for Grange — launched in May
2011 — had reached £6,343,116 by
November 30.
It includes £88,199.652 on travel, with
officers regularly flying to Praia da
Luz, the Portuguese resort where
Madeleine, then three, vanished in May
2007.
The probe was set up after her parents
Kate and Gerry, both 45, of Rothley,
Leics, wrote an open letter in The Sun
asking the PM for help.
A two-year review identified 200
potential leads and a new investigation
— including a Crimewatch reconstruction
— prompted 5,000 calls.
Det Chief Insp Andy Redwood, in charge
of Grange, said: "All this has produced
a large volume of work."
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