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Maddie: She was Killed

Daily Star

MADELEINE McCann’s parents are to face a grilling by British police over sensational new evidence.

The findings allegedly prove that the three-year-old did die in the family’s holiday apartment.


And they also reportedly back up the police theory that her body was moved in a car her parents hired 24 days later.


The findings were last night being studied by Paulo Rebelo, the new police chief on the case. And the new DNA results will come as a total shock to Kate and Gerry McCann, both 39.


They had hoped reports their daughter was smuggled into Morocco would shift the finger of blame away from the family.


According to leaked details of the new report:


TRACES of Madeleine’s blood are said to have been found in the apartment.


TESTS on body fluids found in the spare tyre well in the boot of the hire car show they came from a corpse.


THE body had been moved.


HAIR found in the car belonged to Madeleine. Sources say the volume of material found is too great for it to have been transferred via Maddie’s toys or clothing.


So far, forensic experts have found no evidence to indicate any other person was involved. They have not discovered any forensic trace of a possible abductor in the McCanns’ apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.


Sources say the results from a second batch of tests – conducted at the Forensic Science Service’s laboratory in Birmingham – were passed to Portuguese detectives via Leicestershire Police.


A senior detective said last night that Rebelo is “certain” to want to re-question Madeleine’s GP mum Kate and heart consultant dad Gerry, who remain official suspects. But the grilling would almost certainly be carried out in England by Brit detectives.


He said: “Portuguese officers may be allowed to observe the interviews, but they will not have the jurisdiction to conduct them in England.

“English detectives will be free to carry out interviews on their terms.


“They will focus on extracting precise details in a bid to expose any inconsistencies in the couple’s accounts – no matter how minute.


“These interviews will be tape- recorded and videoed so their respon-ses can be painstakingly examined. If they are not being truthful that would be almost certain to emerge.’’


Two months ago police accused Kate of accidentally killing her daughter in the apartment after giving her sedatives to help her sleep while she and her husband dined with pals in a nearby tapas bar.


They alleged the couple then disposed of the body in a bid to mask their negligence.


Police believe they initially stashed the corpse in a temporary hideaway before moving it to its final resting place in the hire car.


Police began to suspect the couple in July after British sniffer dogs trained to detect death and blood reacted inside the apartment and the car.


The McCanns, from Rothley, Leics, deny any involvement in their daughter’s disappearance and insist she was abducted.


Their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “This is yet another unsourced, unsubstantiated and possibly inaccurate report and as such we simply won’t comment on it.


“Kate and Gerry are entirely innocent and therefore are unconcerned about reports in the media because they know the truth.”

So much for the Moroccan wild goose chase for a fictitious abductor