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Maddie cops botch DNA test

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX NEWS JUNE 2007
Original Source: Sun 06 June 2007.
From LUCY HAGANand NICK PARKER [deleted from sun]
in Praia da Luz June 06, 2007
 
COPS admitted yesterday a DNA swab from Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat was bungled, putting him back under suspicion.

Police sources in Portugal originally said a sample taken from the scene of the four-year-old’s abduction 33 days ago did not match one from Murat.

Murat, 33, who has always denied being involved, gave a second sample two days ago.

He is in hiding as he awaits the results, which could take weeks.

Police spokesman Olegario Sousa said the second swab was taken because the first sample may not have been large enough, may have been contaminated or even LOST.

Samples from Murat, his mother Jenny, business associate Sergey Malinka and Luis Antonio — the estranged husband of Mr Murat’s girlfriend — had already taken four weeks to process at three different labs.

DNA has also been taken from Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann, their two other children and 12 people in their group who went on holiday to Portugal.

The bungle was revealed as Kate, 38, and Gerry met Portuguese cops for the first time in 12 days.

Gerry went to the meeting at the British consulate in Portimao with a list of questions about possible leads.

The couple are also thought to have asked for more contact with officers — after not having been briefed in nearly a fortnight.

The McCanns do not want to be seen to be criticising the Portuguese police, but expressed “frustration” at progress in the early stages.

Due to stringent Portuguese law they have not been able to do a reconstruction of Maddie’s last whereabouts for BBC’s Crimewatch, on which the McCanns appeared last night.

Police will not let the inside of the apartment be shown, on the grounds that it is a breach of their investigation.

Yesterday the McCanns flew to Germany by private jet to publicise their campaign to find Madeleine.

Before setting out, their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie gave their dad a 39th birthday card they had made.

Mum Kate helped them sign it — and it included the words “Love from Madeleine.”

The twins remained with an aunt in Praia da Luz as their parents flew to meet Germany’s Deputy Interior Minister and the Mayor of Berlin before heading to Amsterdam.

After more interviews on Thursday, they will fly back to the Algarve for a jazz concert in their daughter’s name in Lagos.

They have already visited Spain and Italy and plan to go to Morocco at the weekend.

Morocco has surfaced often in the hunt, with a reported sighting of a girl with a man.
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