Seven years after British girl vanished in Portugal, hunt on scrubland brings no new clues, only agony for parents Kate and Gerry McCann
It began with a team of British detectives on all fours scouring a hilly stretch of scrubland on Portugal’s Algarve coast.
But at the end of the first week of searches in Praia da Luz, the air of hopeful anticipation collapsed into acrimony.
The parents of missing British child Madeleine McCann were even forced to plead for calm.
