Scotland Yard has confirmed that the timeline and accepted version of events at the time of Madeleine McCann's disappearance have 'shifted significantly.'
The BBC is to broadcast an edition of Crimewatch on Monday 14th of October containing 25 minutes devoted to ‘the most detailed reconstruction’ of the events surrounding Madeleine’s disappearance ever undertaken.
The BBC1 programme also will release photofits of men that the police are still looking for in order to ‘eliminate them from their enquiries,' while hoping for an arrest. The first was released to media on Monday morning in a carefully planned media day:
The purpose of the Crimewatch programme is to try and identify the above man, and later others, from computer-generated images. These are men that have been identified as being in the Praia da Luz area in the western Algarve on or before Thursday May 3rd 2007 when Madeleine McCann was found to be missing.
The head of Operation Grange at Scotland Yard, DCI Andy Redwood, said that the timeline his team has established gives new significance to the sightings and movements of various people in and around Praia da Luz at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.
"Our work to date has significantly altered the timeline and the accepted version of events that has been in the public domain to date. This has allowed us to work with Crimewatch to build the most detailed reconstruction yet and to highlight very specific points.”
Redwood added that his team had endeavoured "to take everything back to the beginning and then reanalyse and reassess everything, accepting nothing."
Kate and Gerry McCann will make a live appeal in the studio during the programme.
Earlier this month it became apparent that the phone records from the time of Madeleine's disappearance may hold the key to unlocking this mystery.
The British police analysis of the records will have been discussed with the local PJ force in Faro and any suspects coming to light after the Crimewatch appeal may be followed up by local forces in Portugal.
Meanwhile, in Manchester a man has been arrested in relation to the Madeleine McCann case after confessing to a lawyer that he had seen the girl this summer on an island in the Mediterranean.
The Sunday Mirror reported that a man was arrested last week. He had told a lawyer at a private dinner party in August that he had seen the girl. The lawyer went to the police and the suspect was detained by the authorities.
Kate and Gerry McCann are aware of the situation as they prepare for their Crimewatch appeal on BBC1 on Monday.
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