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DNA from a mystery sixth person has been found in the bedroom in Portugal where
Madeleine McCann was abducted, it was claimed yesterday.
Portuguese police have handed the sample to the national forensic laboratories,
the Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, according to local newspaper 24 Horas.
It does not match the DNA of Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, or her
twin siblings.
Neither does the DNA match that of the only named suspect in the case, property
developer Robert Murat, the paper reported.
It quoted a source from the laboratory, who said: "There is a new suspect,
there is DNA which does not correspond to the family.
"It is an important step in the investigation, but the truth is that the
DNA collected does not have a name.
"In other words, we cannot make any connection between the material
collected and the suspects which we already have."
Meanwhile, the McCanns took their search to Spain yesterday and spoke in detail
for the first time about how they have privately thought the unthinkable.
Asked about the possibility that the four-year-old may be the prisoner of a pedophile, Kate McCann struggled to control her emotions
before replying: "It is a more upsetting scenario than any other."
In Madrid,
the McCanns were handed a letter from the family of Yeremi
Vargas, a 10-year-old boy who disappeared on Gran Canaria
in March.
The gesture reduced Kate McCann almost to tears as it became poignantly clear
that the two mothers had been sharing their agony.
The letter said: "There is no one better than us to know what you are
living through.
"Count on us for anything you may need. Be strong and keep the family
together. It is the best thing that we have."
The McCanns, holding hands throughout, spoke to the Spanish TV program Most
Wanted, a daily show about missing people.
The couple, both 38-year-old doctors from Leicestershire, this week will go to Berlin, Amsterdam and Morocco to
continue their desperate search.
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