“And we’re just getting from Portugal…”

The latest twist in this heart-wrenching saga is that the man as depicted in the latest artist’s impression of Maddie’s ‘abductor’ has been found at last: apparently working as a mannequin in the shop window of Debenhams in Lisbon. Unfortunately he could not give any details of the girl’s whereabouts as he was lacking a mouth. A trained police artist tried drawing one on but this apparently didn’t help. More developments, no matter the banality, will follow, courtesy of BBC News Twenty-bore and the advert placards for the Evening Standard…