Kate McCann wants new artist's impression as nobody would recognise teen Madeleine

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Kate McCann wants new artist's impression as nobody would recognise teen Madeleine
22:21, 27 APR 2016 UPDATED 22:21, 27 APR 2016
BY TRACEY KANDOHLA
Kate thinks Madeleine never left Portugal and thinks a third age-progression image would help to find her

The McCanns may have a new age-progression image of missing Madeleine created.

Mum Kate fears no one will be able to recognise Madeleine, who would turn 13 next month.

The move comes as the British police hunt for her is winding up.

There were images of Madeleine in 2009 as a six-year-old and in 2012 when she would have turned nine.



A friend of the couple said: “It’s lengthy and costly but they are thinking about doing it again on advice from US forensic scientists.

“No one thought Madeleine would be missing so long and sometimes Kate worries the public won’t recognise her.”

On Tuesday it will be nine years since Madeleine vanished from the family’s Portuguese holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. The friend said: “Nine years is a long time. The only real tell-tale sign is the distinctive blemish in her right eye.”

Britain’s top cop Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has revealed the ­five-year, £12million Operation Grange is set to finish “within months” after a final line of enquiry is pursued.

The McCanns have pledged to carry on and fund the search when the police hunt finally ends.