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That is why the BKA footed the bill for the search this week in ruined farm buildings on merciless, shadeless scrubland in the rising heat of an Algarve summer.

Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from an apartment in the Algarve while on holiday with her family in May 2007.

Greg Monks, 38, was reported missing last week after leaving the main strip in Albufeira in the Algarve in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

A drifter and petty criminal, he had spent much of his time between 2000 and 2017 in the Algarve.

Searches for Madeleine McCann are to resume in Portugal, 18 years after she disappeared from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz in the Algarve.