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Father: Madeleine McCann 'snatched not killed'

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX 100 DAYS MISSING NEWS AUGUST 2007
Original Source:  TELEGRAPH: 23 AUGUST 2007
By Richard Edwards in Praia da Luz
Last Updated: 11:30am BST 23/08/2007
 
The father of Madeleine McCann today hit back at police claims that his daughter was killed inside her apartment.

Gerry McCann said he was a "million miles" from changing his belief that the four year old was abducted on the night she disappeared.


Madeleine McCann
It comes despite detectives leading the inquiry now focusing on the belief that Madeleine has died, possibly by accident in the apartment on the night she disappeared.

Mr McCann, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said that from the very first moment he believed his daughter was snatched.

"I am not even close, I am a million miles away, from changing my mind about what happened that night," he said.

In a further sign of the McCanns growing frustration over a series of smears, it emerged today they may sue Portugal's most famous TV reporter.

They have asked to be sent a video tape of a broadcast by Sandra Felgueiras, who works for station RTP, from 10 days ago.

Meanwhile, in the latest in a series of interviews with foreign media to keep Madeleine's plight in the public eye, Mr McCann told Spanish journalists there was a chance that she was taken to Spain, because the border is so close to Praia da Luz and was not locked down on the night she went missing.

The interviews were published in Spanish papers today and led to an immediate alleged sighting in Cartagena, eastern Spain, at a petrol station.

Two women claimed they had seen a girl with a man who was acting suspiciously and pushed her into his Citroen ZX car when he was seen by them.

Despite the sightings, Portuguese detectives leading the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, including Guilhermino Encarnação and Goncalo Amaral, are convinced that the four year old is dead, and have exhausted all leads suggesting that she was abducted.

It is now understood that the direction of the inquiry changed a month ago, when a key piece of evidence emerged, which has not been disclosed.

A senior police source said: "They say that abduction is no longer the main lead and that accidental death is the strongest theory they are working on.

"They are awaiting test results on forensics from inside the apartment but even without them, they say they have another lead which points to Madeleine's death.

"It could be a murder or it could be an accident, and at the moment they are leaning towards the latter.

"The apartment is the key – all the answers lie there, they say – but they are far from resolving what exactly happened and why the body disappeared."

Police continue to insist that Mr and Mrs McCann are not suspects, and that there is "no logic" in reports smearing their friends as potentially being involved.

Detectives will not elaborate on what evidence they have to support the theory, however it is understood that the new lead emerged in mid July.

Police had released the apartment as a crime scene on June 11. It was cleaned and rented out to another family.

But in mid July they returned and then later called in expert help from British sniffer dogs, who detected new samples, which are still being tested. The apartment now lies empty again and has been locked by police.

With the shift in emphasis, detectives have told Mr and Mrs McCann to abandon plans to leave Portugal amid new hopes of a breakthrough.

Mr McCann said that while he still clings to the hope his daughter is alive, he realised that to find her now would be almost unprecedented.

He said: "We have done a lot of research into missing children and the percentage of minors who have ever reappeared is very small.

"Obviously a very long time has passed, but we will do everything we can to make sure Madeleine does not become a statistic.

"We are going to keep looking for our daughter, because we need to find her.

"It’s possible Madeleine is dead, but is also possible she is alive."

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