Outrage as Madeleine McCann police given extra £2 million for investigation

People have reacted with anger after it was revealed how much public money has, and will be spent on the search for missing child Madeleine McCann.

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by Ellie Hooper |
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After her disappearance in Portugal eight years ago, a whopping £10.1 million has been spent looking for the then three-year-old, with a further £2 million budgeted for the coming year.

Madeleine went missing from the Algarve rest Praia Da Luz in 2007, and her family have never stopped looking for her.

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Operation Grange was set up in 2011 but David Cameron, after please from Kate and gerry McCann who believed the original Portuguese investigation was not sufficient.

But after the costs of the special operation were revealed in the House of Commons yesterday, there has understandably been some anger about how other missing children are neglected.

‘Other missing children aren’t getting as much attention,’ Kerry Needham

In particular, the mother of Ben Needham - who has been missing for 24 years - has said that the amount spent ‘seems unfair.’

‘Other missing children aren’t getting as much attention,’ said Kerry Needham, who lost Ben in Greece over two decades ago.

Many Twitter users seemed to support this sentiment, with one writing: ‘Why do we keep throwing money at this?’ and another: ‘Wonder how the parents of other missing people feel when they see this? Surely should be a fairer split.’

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