McCann Lookalike Not Maddy

DNA test results confirm New Zealand girl not missing child
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 14, 2013 8:11 AM CST
McCann Lookalike Not Maddy
An age progression computer-generated image of missing child Madeleine McCann.   (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police/Teri Blythe)

Turns out a lookalike in New Zealand is not the long-missing Madeleine McCann. The DNA of a Queenstown girl was sent to Scotland Yard for testing, despite local police's certainty that she wasn't the British Maddy, who went missing in 2007. "Following a DNA submission, we are now satisfied the girl identified in New Zealand is not Madeleine McCann," London police said, according to the New Zealand Herald. (More Madeleine McCann stories.)

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