New search in Madeleine McCann investigation
German and Portuguese police have launched a new search as part of ongoing investigations into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann.
Madeleine was three-years-old when she vanished from an apartment complex in May 2007 while on holiday with her family in a popular tourist region of Portugal.
Her disappearance sparked a Europe-wide police investigation, and has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world.
The new search will cover the municipality of Lagos, which sits next to Praia da Luz, the town in the Algarve where she went missing nearly two decades ago.
ABC NewsRadio's Sarah Morice spoke with Hamish Brown, a retired Scotland Yard detective inspector and now crime consultant.
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