Police in Spain probe Madeleine ‘sighting’

The Madeleine McCann mystery took a twist yesterday as it emerged Spanish police are looking into a reported sighting of the missing girl in a Costa del Sol holiday resort.

Detectives are making inquiries in Nerja after a tip-off from colleagues in Portugal. Portuguese police are understood to have received details from an informant about a lookalike who was spotted in the town near Málaga.

Officers from a specialist unit are said to have been mobilised after being sent details of the sighting.