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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Nicole Wootton-Cane

Woman at centre of ‘hit-and-run’ Madeleine McCann theory says she was ‘shocked’ by police investigation

The woman behind a theory that suggested Madeleine McCann was killed in a hit-and-run has said she was “shocked” to learn she was investigated by police over the toddler’s disappearance.

Detectives probed the German woman seven years ago while following a theory that the missing three-year-old had escaped her family’s Praia da Luz holiday apartment through an unlocked patio door and been killed in a hit-and-run, reports Sky News.

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