‘Maddie is hidden in plain sight’: Detective who spent three years probing Madeleine McCann's disappearance thinks she is living in the Algarve with no idea who she really is

Former detective Dave Edgar has offered to help find Madeleine McCann 

He was hired to investigate after Portuguese police archived the 2007 case

Edgar, 60, said: 'I believe Madeleine is still alive and the case can be solved' 

By Mail Online Reporter
PUBLISHED: 09:49, 9 April 2017 | UPDATED: 12:50, 9 April 2017

A detective who spent three years looking for Madeleine McCann says he believes she is 'hidden in plain sight' and could still be on the Algarve.
Former Detective Inspector Dave Edgar, 60, is convinced Kate and Gerry McCann were not involved and said the disappearance was intricately planned by a gang of paedophiles. 
Madeleine McCann disappeared from Portuguese resort Praia da Luz in May 2007 as her parents were dining at a nearby restaurant. 
If she was still alive she would turn 14 in May and may look very different from the little girl on the Missing posters. 

Detective inspector Dave Edgar, 60, claims Madeleine McCann's kidnapper told someone 

else about the crime and is urging them to come forward with information

Madeleine disappeared in May 2007 from Portuguese resort Praia da Luz. 

Edgar believes the girl could still be alive. If she is, she will turn 14 in May

Madeleine (pictured) was a keen Everton football fan. 

She would be 14 in May if she was still alive

Edgar told the Sunday Express: 'There is every possibility that Madeleine is still alive and could be being hidden somewhere.

'When you get up beyond the main strip of the Algarve there’s countless isolated properties where Madeleine could be being held.'  

Edgar, who runs Alpha Investigations Group, was hired by the McCanns to look into Madeleine's disappearance.

The Metropolitan Police took over the case in 2011. 

Edgar told the Sun last week the £12million Home Office funding given to Scotland Yard to pay for the inquiry was 'not nearly enough for a crime of this complexity and scale'. He added: 'It sounds a lot but it’s not.' 

Scotland Yard’s Operation Grange team have been given £85,000 to continue their inquiries until the autumn. 

Edgar says there is no evidence to arrest paedophile Raymond Hewlett or Euclides Monteiro, two suspects in the inquiry. 

Hewlett died in 2007, aged 64, while Monteiro, 40, died in 2009.    

Edgar once said he believed Madeleine was being held in an underground cell or dungeon, like the victims of Josef Fritzl. 


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