By Brendan de Beer, Tracy McVeigh
Monday, June 9, 2014
Portuguese police (click here) sources have confirmed to the Observer that a number of suspects identified by Scotland Yard detectives will be arrested "in the very near future" over the disappearance seven years ago of Madeleine McCann.
Police confirmed that "several people" had been identified by the London Metropolitan police (Met), who have had officers and two sniffer dogs in the Algarve all last week searching a large area of scrubland close to the holiday apartment where the McCann family were staying when the 3-year-old disappeared in May 2007.
The search of that particular area, a Portuguese police source said, would end today and the search would shift to another area....
