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MADDIE BODY BURNED

POLICE hunting Madeleine’s body yesterday swooped on a pet crematorium near where she vanished.

Owner Eef Hoos, 61, revealed he was visited by an English-speaking couple shortly after the four-year-old disappeared.

They asked him to cremate their dead dog in a big black bin bag in his furnace 20 miles from the resort of Praia da Luz.

He grew suspicious because the couple did not appear upset at the death of the pet or ask for the ashes – which he scattered himself.

Hoos – who served eight years in jail for blowing up a police station in Holland – said detectives asked him if it was possible there had been a child in the bag dropped off by the English-speaking couple.

But he said he checked inside and found the corpse of a labrador.

But police still wanted to inspect his rusty backyard incinerator.

Yesterday two men in dark glasses arrived in an unmarked car at his home and spent 20 minutes inside before leaving with documents about animal cremations. He said: “They asked me three times if I had spoken to the parents. I said as far as I was aware I had not spoken to the parents.”

Police are mapping out a number of locations where they believe Madeleine’s body could have been dumped.

Mobile phone tracking experts are using satellite technology to draw up a list of sites visited by the McCanns since they rented the hire car Madeleine’s DNA was found in.

Further searches are planned over the next few days.

source:Daily Star