Man 'arrested after making Madeleine McCann introduction boast' New global media campaign to find Madeleine McCann British police launch a new campaign to find missing child Madeleine McCann who disappeared over six years ago from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal. Courtesy Nine News. PT2M31S http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2vh5j 620 349 October 14, 2013 - 7:33AM London: British police have reportedly arrested a man after he boasted at a party of having recently seen Madeleine McCann on a Mediterranean island. However, it appears he was arrested for reasons unrelated to the child's disappearance from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007. Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper reported a week ago that a barrister had given a detailed statement to police after attending a party in Manchester where the man made the extraordinary claim. Public appeal: Madeleine McCann's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, are interviewed on the BBC for a program that will air on Monday night in Britain. The man boasted that he had been introduced to Madeleine on the island this summer. She was in the company of another adult. The barrister said he took the claim seriously because of the level of detail. The Sunday Mirror reported that the man making the claims was arrested during the week and computers were seized. Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007. In a statement, Greater Manchester Police told the paper "a man was arrested ... on suspicion of possession of drugs and conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children." He was bailed pending further inquiries. Madeleine's disappearance is being investigated by Operation Grange. A spokesman from London's Metropolitan Police told Fairfax Media: "We are not providing a running commentary in relation to this." If any arrest was made by Operation Grange it would be confirmed by the Met, he said. Police from Operation Grange, along with the McCann family, are due to make a new public appeal for help in the case on a British TV program on Monday night. The program will also present a fresh timeline of events surrounding the disappearance of the British girl just a few days before her fourth birthday. It will include a new, 25-minute reconstruction as well as interviews with Gerry and Kate McCann, who launched a global media campaign to find their daughter and still hold out hope she is alive. Portuguese authorities closed their investigation in 2008, but the Metropolitan Police spent two years reviewing the evidence and opened their own probe in July this year. Last week, the Met said analysis of mobile phone data from thousands of people who were at the resort of Praia da Luz when Madeleine disappeared could provide a new lead. The detectives have interviewed 442 people in the past couple of years and have identified 41 potential suspects, although no arrests have been made. In the BBC Crimewatch program on Monday night, e-fits of men seen in and around Praia da Luz at the time will be published in a bid to identify the men and eliminate innocent sightings. ""Primarily what we sought to do from the beginning is try and draw everything back to zero,"" the chief investigating officer, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, said in a clip from the program released to the media. ""Try and take everything back to the beginning and re-analyse and reassess everything, accepting nothing."" He said detectives were focused on the time between 8.30pm on May 3, 2007, when Kate and Gerry McCann left the apartment to dine at a nearby tapas restaurant with friends, to when Kate McCann found Madeleine was missing at 10pm. ""Our work to date has significantly changed the timeline and the accepted version of events that has been in the public domain to date,"" Inspector Redwood said. The appeal will be shown in Germany and the Netherlands after Monday's British broadcast, in a bid to widen the search for new information. Last week the McCanns said they were ""greatly encouraged by new information coming to light"" and that they hoped the BBC appeal would take them closer to finding Madeleine. with AFP