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'NO
EVIDENCE' MADDIE DIED IN APARTMENT |
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Original Source:
EXPRESS: 07
NOVEMBER 2007 |
Wednesday November 7,2007
By Martin Evans |
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THE parents of Madeleine McCann were given fresh hope last night after
crucial DNA tests concluded there was no evidence to prove their daughter was
dead.
Scientists at Portugal’s
top forensic laboratory have spent months analysing DNA evidence collected from
the scene of the child’s disappearance.
But they have been unable to identify anything that indicates the
three-year-old died on the night she went missing in May.
Tests have also failed to produce any solid evidence linking Kate and Gerry to
her disappearance.
It will be a huge boost to the couple and again spotlights the theory that
Madeleine could have been abducted and may still be found alive and well.
But at the same time Portuguese police last night launched an extraordinary
attack on the McCanns, blaming them for the public’s lack of help in finding
Madeleine.
A senior police source said people were no longer willing to cooperate because
they were tired of having the issue “rammed down their throats”.
He said the Find Madeleine campaign had actually hampered the police
investigation.
He added: “They’ve overdone it. People used to look at her picture and well up
with tears and spent days walking around the countryside, hot, tired, aching
but it didn’t matter because there was that tiny hope they’d find her and it’d
have a happy ending.
“Now they see her picture and it gets no reaction. It’s time to stop. People
are turning the other way.”
A senior Portuguese detective even suggested the publicity could have placed
the child’s life in danger. Carlos Anjos, chairman of
the Portuguese Union of Police Detectives, said: “We were against the release
of Madeleine McCann’s photograph all over the world. We thought that the photos
should not show the distinct mark in her right eye. If this was a kidnap, which
is what we believed from the start, revealing such a distinct feature would put
that person’s life in danger.”
Yesterday’s news about the DNA tests came from a source at the country’s main
pathology
laboratory in Lisbon.
He told the Portuguese daily newspaper 24 Hours: “Nothing allows us to say the
little girl died in that apartment as no sample was gathered which
can point in that direction.”
The tests will increase pressure on Paulo Rebelo, head of the investigation, to
remove Kate and Gerry’s suspect status imposed on September 7 – four months
after Madeleine went missing.
But it is unlikely any decision will be made before more detailed forensic
tests at a laboratory in Birmingham
are completed.
A vast amount of potential evidence was sent to the city’s Forensic Science
Service laboratory following a second round of searches of sites in and around
Praia da Luz at the beginning of August.
UK
sniffer dogs scoured the apartment at the Ocean Club complex as well as the
vehicles driven by the McCanns and their friends.
Initial results from these tests led to Kate and Gerry being declared official
suspects.
Hairs found in the boot of their Renault Scenic car and traces of a bodily
fluid under the upholstery, showed a strong match with Madeleine’s DNA.
According to sources within the Policia Judiciaria, Mr Rebelo is concerned
about contradictions in the statements of the McCanns and the seven friends,
who dined with them the night Madeleine went missing.
Four of the so-called Tapas Nine fear they are about to be named as suspects in
the investigation.
British police have told Kate not to cry in public. They are worried a
kidnapper will “get off” on any show of upset by her and husband Gerry. |
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