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Madeleine McCann ghouls cashing in on new search by flogging old Praia da Luz souvenirs
Appeal poster, postcards of town where disappearance happened and newspaper front pages of last week's police search for Madeleine McCann are now on sale for £20
Ghouls are trying to cash in on the new Madeleine McCann search by flogging old Praia da Luz souvenirs - including a ‘Have You Seen Me?’ poster of the missing Brit.
The wall-hanging was one of thousands produced for an appeal six years after the then-three-year-old’s disappearance from the Portuguese resort in 2007.
It features a photo of how Madeleine looked when she vanished from her parents’ rented holiday apartment - and an age progression picture commissioned by the Metropolitan Police of how she may have appeared then aged nine. The poster - bearing the words ‘Have You Seen Me?’ and hotline numbers and emails for the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Grange team and Crimestoppers - was circulated across Europe in the desperate hope someone may recognise the missing youngster.
It is among a host of grim memorabilia linked to the case for sale on internet auction site eBay following last week’s three-day search of an abandoned village just a mile from the spot where Madeleine disappeared.
The poster is for sale for £20 plus £2 delivery from a seller in London and listed as a ‘very rare original “missing” poster from 2013’ of what it describes as the ‘Praia Da Luz kidnap’.
The posters can still be downloaded for free from the official Find Madeleine website set up to help find her.
Dozens of old postcards of Praia da Luz have also been put up for sale with prices ranging from a fiver to £20.77.
One features a macabre landmark in the town called ‘Gateway to Heaven’.
Another seller is flogging a front page of The Times dated June 4 - featuring a report of the start of last week’s operation and advertised as ‘Madeleine McCann Search In Portugal’ - for £17.88.
Locals in Praia da Luz said a grim tourist trail had emerged of locations linked to the case.
Marco Antonio Leite, a labourer fixing apartments in the same street as the one from which Madeleine vanished, said: “You see people stopping here taking photos all the time.”
Gilberto Fernandes, 70, who runs a souvenir shop selling Praia da Luz t-shirts, hoped his stock was bought by folk who simply love the seaside town.
“We just want to move on,” he said.
German police launched last week’s search in the hope of finding evidence linking their prime suspect Christian Brüeckner to Madeleine’s disappearance.
He could be released as soon as September from a seven-year jail sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz two years before the Brit girl vanished.
The convicted paedophile has denied any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.
Police have not officially commented on what was found in last week’s search.
But one officer suggested it was animal bones and pieces of fabric.
TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas - who exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile - has called for the German prosecutor in charge of the search for Madeleine to be axed.
Daily Star Sunday
Appeal poster, postcards of town where disappearance happened and newspaper front pages of last week's police search for Madeleine McCann are now on sale for £20
Ghouls are trying to cash in on the new Madeleine McCann search by flogging old Praia da Luz souvenirs - including a ‘Have You Seen Me?’ poster of the missing Brit.
The wall-hanging was one of thousands produced for an appeal six years after the then-three-year-old’s disappearance from the Portuguese resort in 2007.
It features a photo of how Madeleine looked when she vanished from her parents’ rented holiday apartment - and an age progression picture commissioned by the Metropolitan Police of how she may have appeared then aged nine. The poster - bearing the words ‘Have You Seen Me?’ and hotline numbers and emails for the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Grange team and Crimestoppers - was circulated across Europe in the desperate hope someone may recognise the missing youngster.
It is among a host of grim memorabilia linked to the case for sale on internet auction site eBay following last week’s three-day search of an abandoned village just a mile from the spot where Madeleine disappeared.
The poster is for sale for £20 plus £2 delivery from a seller in London and listed as a ‘very rare original “missing” poster from 2013’ of what it describes as the ‘Praia Da Luz kidnap’.
The posters can still be downloaded for free from the official Find Madeleine website set up to help find her.
Dozens of old postcards of Praia da Luz have also been put up for sale with prices ranging from a fiver to £20.77.
One features a macabre landmark in the town called ‘Gateway to Heaven’.
Another seller is flogging a front page of The Times dated June 4 - featuring a report of the start of last week’s operation and advertised as ‘Madeleine McCann Search In Portugal’ - for £17.88.
Locals in Praia da Luz said a grim tourist trail had emerged of locations linked to the case.
Marco Antonio Leite, a labourer fixing apartments in the same street as the one from which Madeleine vanished, said: “You see people stopping here taking photos all the time.”
Gilberto Fernandes, 70, who runs a souvenir shop selling Praia da Luz t-shirts, hoped his stock was bought by folk who simply love the seaside town.
“We just want to move on,” he said.
German police launched last week’s search in the hope of finding evidence linking their prime suspect Christian Brüeckner to Madeleine’s disappearance.
He could be released as soon as September from a seven-year jail sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz two years before the Brit girl vanished.
The convicted paedophile has denied any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.
Police have not officially commented on what was found in last week’s search.
But one officer suggested it was animal bones and pieces of fabric.
TV investigator Mark Williams-Thomas - who exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile - has called for the German prosecutor in charge of the search for Madeleine to be axed.
Daily Star Sunday