McCann review will cost £2m

Scotland Yard’s review of the Madeleine McCann case is expected to cost nearly £2 million in its first year.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command are carrying out a re-examination of the original investigation into the girl’s disappearance in Portugal in May 2007.

Since last May, officers have travelled to Spain and Portugal to pursue lines of inquiry.

Scotland Yard said it expected to recover £1.9m from the Home Office for the cost of the Madeleine case review up to the end of March this year, of which it has already claimed £800,000.