The Sun: MISSING SCENE Where did Madeleine McCann disappear and where is the Ocean Club apartment in Praia da Luz Portugal?

MISSING SCENE Where did Madeleine McCann disappear and where is the Ocean Club apartment in Praia da Luz Portugal?
The McCann's were on a seven-night spring break at the two-bedroom, ground-floor apartment

By Sam Webb
27th July 2017, 4:24 pm  Updated: 27th July 2017, 4:27 pm

MADELEINE McCann went missing while on holiday with her parents in Portugal in May, 2007. More than a decade on and she has not been found.

The three-year-old’s disappearance remains one of the most famous missing persons cases in UK history.

Where did Madeleine McCann go missing?

The three-year-old disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva, Praia da Luz, a resort in the Algarve region of Portugal.

The McCanns arrived on Saturday, April 28 2007, for a seven-night spring break at the two-bedroom, ground-floor apartment in the fifth block of a group of apartments known as Waterside Village.

Where is the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz?

The apartment is on the edge of travel firm Mark Warner’s Ocean Club resort.

The Ocean Club is one of several collections of tourist accommodation in the popular holiday town, which is located close to the larger town of Lagos, about an hour’s drive from Faro airport.

In February 2017 the apartment was sold to British gran for £113,000 – half the asking price.

Police have recorded thousands of potential sightings of missing Brit since 2007

When did Madeleine McCann disappear?

Madeleine 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.

In September of that year, Gerry and Kate, who are both doctors, were sensationally named as ‘arguidos’ by Portuguese police.

While arguido is often translated as ‘suspect’, it actually means a person being questioned under caution.

The following summer the McCanns were cleared by investigators in Portugal who declared they had exhausted all avenues in the case.

In 2010, Maddie’s distraught parents met with then-home secretary Theresa May to talk about the hunt for their daughter.

The following year, Scotland Yard launched its own review, named Operation Grange, into the case at the behest of the future PM.

Two years later Scotland Yard said it had uncovered new leads while Portuguese police reopened their case.

In October 2015, Operation Grange was scaled down from 29 detectives to just four.

Last December, the Tory government injected extra funding into the operation as cops investigated a new theory that Maddie was snatched by a human trafficking ring.

How old would Madeleine McCann be now?

Maddie would have turned 14 on May 12, 2017.

In April 2012, UK cops released a computer generated image of Maddie showing what she would look like aged nine.

A number of potential leads have emerged since the little girl vanished, but none amounted to anything and no arrests have ever been made.

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