South African claims to have found Madeleine McCann's grave
Madeleine McCann at age three
A South African man claims to have found the burial site of Madeleine McCann, a British child who went missing five years ago.
Stephen Birch said he took radar scans last week in Praia da Luz, the Portuguese holiday resort where three-year-old Madeleine disappeared, according to a report on news.sky.com.
He had given the scans to Scotland Yard detectives and Portuguese police.
"I've had the scans analysed and they show digging, a void and what could be human bones," he told Sky News.
Birch is reportedly a commercial property developer in South Africa, and is obsessed with the Madeleine McCann case.
He claimed he spent UK40,000 (R507,100) on the scanner and being trained to use it.
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