A MAN was jailed for making bogus bomb detectors in his garden shed which he claimed could find missing Madeleine McCann.
Sam Tree, 68, of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, claimed the dud devices could track down explosives, drugs and people.
Police heralded the sentencing as the "concluding act in a highly complex, extensive and significant investigation" which has seen three other British con artists convicted of making fake detectors. It is believed the criminals made around £80 million from the scam. Tree was jailed for three and a half years at London's Kingston Crown Court after being found guilty at the Old Bailey in August of making an article for use in a fraud between 2007 and 2012. His wife Joan Tree, 62, got a two-year suspended jail sentence and ordered to carry out unpaid work after being convicted for the same offence.
