Mobile call on whereabouts of Maddie exposed as a hoax

HOPES of a breakthrough in the search for Madeleine McCann have been dashed by the news that a potentially significant phone call received last week was a hoax.

The call to Spanish police, received from an Argentinian pay-as-you-go mobile phone, claimed to know where Madeleine was.

It was deemed so significant that Madeleine’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann suspended their search of Europe.