AN Irish investigator who played a leading role in the search for Madeleine McCann has said her parents do not need any trauma of a Polish woman coming forward to claim she is the missing girl.
County Down investigator Jim Gamble, who is a leading child safety expert and on Portugal’s Algarve in May 2017, said a DNA test on Julia Wendell should have been carried out behind the scenes – and out of the glare of publicity.
Former senior RUC and PSNI officer Mr Gamble led the 2010 review that led to the creation of Operation Grange – the London Metropolitan Police’s own investigation into the disappearance of Maddie, whose parents Gerry and Kate McCann live in Leicestershire.
