New video of Madeleine McCann to be released in the UAE
The minute long video, showing what she might look like now, to be translated into Arabic
Dubai: British police have released a video showing what missing British girl Madeleine McCann might look like now, aged six.
According to a report in the Guardian newspaper, the minute long video, which shows her with darker skin and hair, is expected to be launched in the Middle East and in the UAE and translated in seven languages including Arabic.
The video says "it is never too late to do the right thing". It was tailored on the advice of police psychologists.
The report claims the new video image has been launched with an intention to show what she might look like if she had been held captive in southern Europe, Africa or the Middle East.
It features alongside another new visualisation of her as pale and blond in a minute-long video which the Home Office's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) hopes will be so widely posted on internet blogs, social networking sites and Twitter that it becomes the top item if anyone searches for "Madeleine".
"We are using our network around the world to launch a viral message at one person," said Jim Gamble, head of Ceop. "That is the person who knows or strongly suspects they know who was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The message is aimed at prompting the conscience of the individual who is keeping that secret."
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, in a statement said:. "It is vital that it is seen and heard as widely as possible. If you know what has happened to Madeleine it is still not too late to do the right thing and come forward to your local police with that information. We love Madeleine. Please help us bring her home."
Madeleine McCann disappeared on the evening of May 3 2007 while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal.
The British girl went missing from an apartment, in the central area of the resort of Praia da Luz, a few days before her fourth birthday, and has still not been found.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have said that they left the children unsupervised in a ground floor bedroom while they ate at a restaurant about 130 yards (120 metres) away.
