Australian 'mystery woman' in McCann case

MELBOURNE, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The latest lead in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal, takes investigators to Australia, a family spokesman said.

A British man claimed a woman with an Australian accent approached him in a bar in Barcelona three days after Madeleine vanished, The Melbourne Herald Sun reported.

"Are you here to deliver my new daughter? Have you got her? Have you got the child?" she reportedly asked.

Madeleine, then 4, disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia do Luz, Portugal, in May 2007. Her parents said they left their children sleeping while they ate dinner with friends at a restaurant within eyesight of the apartment.

Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said since the new information has come up there have been hundreds of calls, especially from Australia, of people who say they have seen a woman like the one described from Barcelona.