When is Madeleine McCann: 10 Years On on BBC One? Documentary examining the investigation into Maddie’s disappearance
GERRY and Kate McCann have been searching for their missing daughter Madeleine McCann for ten years after she vanished on May 3 2007.
A new Panorama documentary which examines the police investigation into the three-year-old’s disappearance airs TONIGHT.
When does Madeleine McCann: 10 Years On air on BBC One?
The documentary airs on Wednesday May 3 at 9pm, exactly 10 years after Maddie vanished.
The programme sees reporter Richard Bilton visit the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, where Maddie went missing.
Bilson has covered the story for the BBC since the first days of Maddie’s disappearance.
What issues will the McCann documentary explore?
The documentary explores the “contradictory conclusions” reached by the investigative police forces in Portugal and the UK.
Bilton examines the evidence and tracks down the men British police have questioned about the case.
He also visits Lisbon to interview the Deputy Head of the Policia Judiciaria.
When did Madeleine McCann go missing?
Madeleine, three, vanished on May 3, 2007, when her family, from Leicestershire, were holidaying in the Algarve, Portugal.
Parents Gerry and Kate left their three children – including toddler twins Sean and Amelie – sleeping in their apartment while they dined at a nearby tapas bar.
When Kate returned to check on the kids at around 10pm that evening, she discovered that Maddie was not in her bed and was missing.
What are the latest developments in the case?
Detectives working on the case are still pursuing “critical” leads as the 10th anniversary of her disappearance approaches, a Scotland Yard chief has said.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said there are “significant investigative avenues” that are of “great interest” to both the UK and Portuguese teams.
Veteran investigative journalist Danny Collins believes the toddler could not have been snatched from the room.
He is convinced she left the apartment in Praia da Luz looking for her parents before being abducted and possibly sold to gypsies.
Former Scotland Yard detective Colin Sutton says the most “most likely and credible scenario” for Maddie’s disappearance is a targeted kidnap – possibly to replace some grieving parents’ own dead child.
A Portuguese probe into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance was archived in July 2008 before being reopened in May 2014 after convicted burglar Euclides Monteiro, a former employee at the Ocean club holiday resort where the youngster vanished from, was identified as a suspect.
His widow Luisa Rodrigues has always insisted the Cape Verdian immigrant, who died in a tractor accident in 2009, is an innocent man but he has never been officially ruled out of the inquiry.
