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POLICE last night relentlessly piled up the pressure on the mother of
missing Madeleine McCann.
The new officer in charge of the investigation put Kate McCann at the centre of
two dramatic developments.
He was granted permission by a judge to seize her diary and announced that she will
be subjected to a minute-by-minute reconstruction of the night Madeleine
disappeared.
Mr Rebelo is said to have ordered the minute-by-minute reconstruction to test
the accounts of part-time GP Kate and heart consultant Gerry, both 39, with
statements made by the seven friends on holiday with them.
Investigators hope to use the reconstruction to shed light on alleged
contradictions in evidence given by different members of the party, who were
dining at a nearby tapas restaurant when Madeleine, three, disappeared from the
family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz 168 days ago.
It has been reported that police want to formally ask the couple and their
friends to fly back to Portugal
to play a role in the reconstruction.
Investigators want Kate and Gerry to take part in or advise police on their
movements as the event is staged. It may even be filmed and distributed to TV
stations in an attempt to jog memories.
Police sources said that Kate’s diary will help their case by revealing her
allegedly “volatile” state of mind when Madeleine disappeared. Again, they want
to check for inconsistencies with information previously given to police and
for clues about the personal relationship between the McCanns and other members
of the party with them on the Algarve.
The source said: “Kate McCann’s life and background is being looked at under a
magnifying glass. Her mental and physical health leading up to Madeleine’s
disappearance could be key to the investigation. “We want to know if she was
taking sedatives or any other kind of medication which may have affected her
state of mind.”
The moves came as reports in Portugal
said that Mr Rebelo and his hand-picked team have re-opened new lines of
inquiry.
But he will continue to build a case against Kate and Gerry, who are still
being treated as chief suspects. Detectives believe Kate killed her daughter by
accidentally giving her an overdose of sedatives.
Investigators are convinced that Madeleine and two-year-old twins Sean and
Amelie were given sleeping pills as Kate struggled to cope with a “hyperactive”
child.
They believe that Gerry helped to cover up the crime and dispose of Madeleine’s
body. They are working on the theory that Madeleine’s body was hidden for weeks
before being secretly moved in the family’s hire car. The McCanns deny being
involved in any way in their daughter’s disappearance.
The couple, from Rothley, Leics, insist they have never given their children
sedatives. Asked about the latest developments, the couple’s spokesman, Clarence
Mitchell, said: “We cannot and will not comment on any of the specifics of the
investigation.”
Mr Rebelo’s new team is made up of six officers from the Portuguese capital Lisbon, including two
murder squad detectives and two experts in sex crimes.
The local detectives based at the regional Policia Judiciaria headquarters in
Portimao who took part in the early stages of the investigation are said to
have been frozen out.
Portuguese newspaper 24 Hours reported: “The officers from Portimao have been
put aside. “Despite this, the PJ knows that the line of investigation developed
by the Portimao inspectors – that of accidental death – is the strongest.
Kate McCann is at the centre of this theory.”
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