In a new development in the case of Madeleine McCann, the then-3-year-old who went missing during a May 2007 vacation with her family in Portugal, a British lawyer told authorities a partygoer whom he came into contact with, boasted that he recently saw the missing child, on an island in the ­Mediterranean.

“I can’t tell you exactly why I believe what I was being told," the lawyer told Greater Manchester Police, according to the UK Mi