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Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa |
In an official statement, police spokesman Chief Inspector
Olegario Sousa described the inquiry as a "complex one"
which had been "extremely difficult to investigate".
He added, "Never has there been collected so much evidence
in a crime scene by specialised teams in this situation."
Madeleine disappeared in May while her parents were dining
with seven holiday pals in a tapas bar 40 yards away from
their apartment.
Last night the McCanns admitted for the first time they may
have to leave Portugal without their daughter.
Kate, 38 and Gerry, 39, have always insisted that they would
remain in the resort of Praia da Luz for as long as it took
to discover what had happened to their little girl.
But with the welfare of their two-year old twins, Sean and
Amelie, becoming an increasing concern, they are
contemplating returning to their home in Rothley,
Leicestershire.
The couple are both doctors and have been granted leave by
their NHS employers to remain in Portugal. They recently
moved into a rented villa not far from where Madeleine
disappeared.
But yesterday Kate finally admitted the time would come when
they would have to return to the UK with or without their
missing daughter.
She said: " We know we will be going back and I guess one
day we will wake up and it will be right. We never thought
we would go before she came back. Now we just don't know -
but we have the twins to consider. I can't imagine how we
came out as a family of five and are going back as a four."
Gerry added they had to consider the twins. He said: "They
are happy".
"There was a period, a few days last week, when it was very,
very difficult to function.
"It was not right. We almost felt we had to be cooped up
somewhere.
"The decision to go home will come at some point when we are
ready and it will be for the right reasons - our welfare,
our family's welfare."
WERE THE KIDS SEDATED?
Police are baffled why Maddie's brother and sister never
stirred while she was probably being killed.
They now believe she died inside the apartment where she had
been put to bed alongside twins Sean and Amelie. The pair
slept throught the whole incident even when Maddy was
discovered missing.
Officers were so stunned they asked the McCanns if they had
given the children sedatives to help them sleep. The couple
denied that and said they must have been exhausted after a
long day in the sun.
A police source said: " They were just a few feet away. Yet
they never woke up."
A family source said: "They didn't give the children
anything.
