{"id":341,"date":"2016-10-03T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T19:07:00","slug":"madeleine-mccann-tour-prompts-disgust-from-her-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/03\/madeleine-mccann-tour-prompts-disgust-from-her-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann \u2018Tour\u2019 Prompts Disgust From Her Parents."},"content":{"rendered":"

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann<\/a> are \u201cdistressed\u201d after learning that tourists are being offered morbid sightseeing tours of the town she was kidnapped from.<\/p>\n

Participants are taken to the apartment where the three-year-old was last seen and the restaurant where Kate and Gerry McCann dined with friends on the night their daughter disappeared.<\/p>\n

Several other Praia da Luz landmarks featured in the subsequent search for the little girl are highlighted in the \u2018Luz Challenge\u2019 tour, which The Mirror writes<\/a>is the macabre brainchild of a British ex-pat grandfather who became obsessed with the case after moving to Portugal.<\/p>\n

Madeleine vanished while on holiday with her parents in Portugal in 2007 and, despite a high-profile international hunt, no trace of her has ever been found.<\/p>\n

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The McCanns have strongly denied any involvement with their daughter\u2019s disappearance, and attempted to sue a police officer who claimed the couple lied.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Writing on his blog, the anonymous guide states: \u201cI think of this as the \u2018Luz Challenge\u2019. Our version of Mission Impossible. Your task is simple. You have to come up with a way in which the McCanns, for whatever reason, disposed of Madeleine\u2019s body, and the body was not found in the subsequent searches.\u201d<\/p>\n

News of the Luz Challenge has not gone down well with other expats in the area.<\/p>\n

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One told the newspaper: \u201cThis is in appalling taste. I couldn\u2019t believe it when I saw it. This is totally uncalled for. A little girl going missing should not be made into a game or a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

A source added: \u201cThe guide is obsessed with Maddie. He\u2019s written thousands of words about the case and pored over maps, photographs and police transcripts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know why he\u2019s so hung up on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining why he wants to remain anonymous, the guide blogged: \u201cSo why do I use usernames on forums and on my blog? I see a lot of people for whom the Madeleine McCann case is about them, as if they want major roles in a stage drama.<\/p>\n

I want the exact opposite. I prefer to remain anonymous, in the background, a non-character in the case. That means my musings are more likely to be judged on merit alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd hopefully, that in turn maximises the chance of what happened to Madeleine McCann.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopes were high when the UK investigation into the little girl\u2019s disappearance was launched in 2011, with Scotland Yard detectives later highlighting a sex offender who had targeted British families with young children staying in villas in the same area where Madeleine was last seen.<\/p>\n

Despite no obvious progress since then, earlier this year the head of Scotland Yard\u2019s murder squad, Detective Chief Superintendent Mick Duthie, remained optimistic.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere is ongoing work. There is always a possibility that we will find Madeleine and we hope that we will find her alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, then-home secretary\u00a0Theresa May<\/a>\u00a0granted the team \u00a395,000 to keep the investigation going, with the cash expected to last until October.<\/p>\n

The British investigation, Operation Grange, was expected to be wound up after Scotland Yard boss Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said in May that British investigators had one remaining line of inquiry to follow and unless any new evidence came to light the probe would finish.<\/p>\n

This came seven months after the investigation team was scaled back drastically to just four officers.<\/p>\n

The Huffington Post UK<\/p>\n

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