It would be wonderful if that girl was found.

More on this on The Mail

I think this is just an Internet rumour...there's nothing on either Sky or BBC news.

Hmmmm, can't help thinking this is more Maddie nonsense to keep the story alive.  I'd bet my house (if I owned one) that this is the usual dead end.

It's in the DM!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ourist.html?ITO=1490

We will just have to wait and see..I remember people saying Amy Winehouse was'nt dead cos it was only on Twitter....

To be fair, the Daily Mail would report they'd found Michael Jackson's missing nose if it meant more hits to their website.

 

I'm going with trusted sites like the Guardian and BBC (don't trust Sky too much for accuracy even though they usually break the news a lot quicker). But if this is true, then I really do hope this is her. I do find it odd that someone would go to the extents the tourist did if they weren't pretty damn sure there was something to make noise about.

 

The Daily Mail have got loads wrong before..,.stories go up on the website for a while then get taken down. With the Amy Winehouse it was on the news within a very short while of it trending on Twitter..,this isn't. Sorry I think it's another load of rubbish.

I hope it is her, for a happy ending.  But imagine if it's not...what the family of the girl awaiting the results of the DNA test are going through

 

It would be wonderful if it was Maddie. 

How the hell did whoever did that 'aged' Maddie get her to look like that??

I'd bet I could go to India and find hundreds if not thousands of girls who look like that - but I wouldn't think any of them looked like Maddie.

I wonder if that mock up has been posted everywhere and that is what has made tourists contact the police.

I hope the little girl is her but I can't see it really

I expect there are thousands that look just like her... not sure how people could identify her.

 

if I was walking in the streets and there was a lookalike with her parents I wouldn't walk up to them and say "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE MADELEINE..."

 

Everyone would instantly think im a nutcase and I would end up being carted off by police.

Thousands may look like her but not thousand would have the eye blemish she has....

yes its very distinctive 

Yes, I assume they wouldn't be doing a DNA test without a similar eye blemish being apparent.

 

Fingers crossed. 

The links are taking foreeeeever to load for me, can someone please give me the gist of this story?

The parents of Madeleine McCann are awaiting the results of a DNA test after a young girl suspected of being the missing child was spotted in India.

Kate and Gerry McCann's team of private investigators say they are working with police in the northern city of Leh which lies in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It’s the northernmost state of India and is situated mostly in the Himalayas.

They were alerted after a British woman spotted a girl with a couple that she thought to be Maddie who would now be eight years old.

The woman raised concerns with other tourists who agreed with her. At one point an American man is said to have tried to take the girl from the couple.

However the French woman and her Belgian husband insist that they are the parents of the girl.

Police in the city have taken swabs so that DNA tests can be carried out on the youngster.

A spokesman for Leh police told the Chandigarh Tribune in India: 'It all depends upon the evidence like DNA for which help from Madeleine's parents and the British police was required.'

Madeleine was days short of her fourth birthday when she went missing on a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann, said: 'Our private investigators are aware of the reports from India over the weekend about a possible sighting of Madeleine.

'We are liaising with the Indian authorities over the incident and await the results of the DNA test.'

Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann marked the fourth anniversary of their daughter's disappearance privately with family and friends.

They recently launched a book about how she disappeared with proceeds from the book, entitled Madeleine, going towards the funding of their search for their daughter.

Despite a massive police investigation and huge publicity worldwide, she has not been found.

The official Portuguese inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance was formally shelved in July 2008, although private detectives employed by the McCanns have continued the search.

Yes. Hoping so much, it`s Madeleine. 

A journalist for Sky  just tweeted

 

The Sun has printed it now.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...Maddie-sighting.html

Another shameful act of "journalism" by the mail then... Pisses me off that they can come out with this sort of sh*t and still get away with it.

I read the Sun link earlier....it's just been completely lifted from the Daily Mail

oh no i was quite hopeful who on earth would make up these rumours

Well it made Indian press..and its still on the daily mail website for me....

 

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110724/main4.htm

 

 

I`ll keep hoping, until someone officially says the reports are wrong.  

Me too Scotty....

stonks  

Me too Scotty, wouldn't that be wonderful!

 

Absolutely Scotty   How amazing it would be to have Maddie returned to her family.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co...d-down-16029205.html

 

McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "The private investigators currently searching for Madeleine have been aware of this report from India for several days, and have been working to establish its veracity.

"So far unfortunately there is nothing to suggest that this sighting is any more credible than any of the many others we have had over the last four-plus years."

Doesn't sound too good. 

So Clarence Mitchell didn't say anything about awaiting the results of the DNA test?

 

 

Yes DD, it would be wonderful!  

 

Please, let it be Madeleine. 

 

 

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann, said: 'Our private investigators are aware of the reports from India over the weekend about a possible sighting of Madeleine.
'We are liaising with the Indian authorities over the incident and await the results of the DNA test.'

 

Triggs    It would be amazing, it`s what they desperately want... but looking at Blizzie`s link ^^^^  it`s not looking too good.  

I still think Maddie is buried under the roads that were under construction in Portugal. I will be very suprised if it turns out to be her.

What makes you think that zazz?  

I remember when she first went missing, the roads round the place she was staying were all dug up and under construstion...perfect place to dump a body...

 

I hope that isnt the case, and that I am wrong, But I really believe she is dead tbh.

I'm tending towards that way myself zazz.

 

Hope I'm wrong too.