the girl likely to have looked several years after her disappearance .
earlier this month , south australia police found what they believed were the remains of a girl , aged between 2 ½ and 4 years old , dumped in a case on the side of a highway near the city of adelaide .
london — police make inquiries about remains found in suitcase .
it is thought the child was killed some time before being placed in a suitcase that was left in scrub alongside the karoonda highway , east of adelaide .
“ there is absolutely no evidence at this point in time that the child is madeleine mccann was snatched from a portuguese holiday resort .
the remains were found in a suitcase along with items of clothing and a degraded quilt next to a motorway in wynarka , skeletal remains found in scrub near a highway in south australia are believed to be those of a child aged between two and seven , police have spent the equivalent of millions of dollars trying to find her , but no one has been charged and there have been no confirmed sightings .
detective superintendent des bray updates media on wynarka bones investigation 11:55 officer in charge
detective superintendent des bray said the suitcase was left in the area between four to six weeks ago .
a passing motorist discovered the child ’s bones in bushes besides the karoonda highway about 11 am police commissioner grant stevens has dismissed speculation that a murdered child found by the side of an sa highway could be the world ’s most high - profile missing girl , madeleine mccann .