Madeleine inquiry 'nearly over'
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The police inquiry into Madeleine McCann's disappearance is almost over, Portugal's justice minister says.
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ROTHLEY, Leicestershire  - The family of missing British girl Madeleine McCann dismissed the evidence against her parents as "spurious" on Monday and appealed to Portuguese police to keep looking for the 4-year-old.
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The parents of missing  four-year-old Madeleine McCann will meet Portuguese police on  Thursday after authorities received partial results of evidence  tested in Britain, police said.
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British papers proclaim Gerry and Kate McCann victims of "rampant speculation" and claim both parents of missing Madeleine McCann "utterly innocent" today.  According to a report published by Sky News, Clarence Mitchell, who quit his Civil Service job to help Gerry and Kate McCann, said "rampant" speculation about possible charges against the couple had to end. Britain's The Sun tabloid says: McCann family sources today said the evidence against the parents of missing Madeleine was at worst "totally useless". They also claimed that least 30 people used the hire car where it was claimed DNA from Maddie was found. It was reported this afternoon that the evidence is flawed and the McCanns would be cleared if the case came before a Portuguese court.  Meanwhile, according to an ITN news report, The case against the McCanns appears to be weakening after a judge reportedly refused to order Kate McCann to return to Portugal for questioning. Kate McCann could now be re-interviewed this week by British police acting on behalf of the Portuguese authorities... The parents of missing Madeleine McCann sought Tuesday to refocus public attention on finding their daughter, according to a report filed 30 minutes ago by AFP in London: "The focus must now return to Madeleine and move away from the rampant, unfounded and inaccurate speculation of recent days. The focus must be the child at the centre of this, Madeleine..."  (Continued...)
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PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal  - The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann will meet Portuguese police on Thursday after authorities received partial results of evidence tested in Britain, police said.
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"Kate is going in without her husband to answer questions regarding the case"  THE mother of missing British four-year-old Madeleine McCann was interviewed on her own by Portuguese police, a spokesman for the family said. via News.com.au
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Police in Malta are investigating two more possible sightings of missing Madeleine McCann.
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The only suspect in the case of missing British four-year-old Madeleine McCann was being questioned by Portuguese police on Tuesday, police chief inspector Olegario de Sousa said.
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A police search of scrubland in response to an anonymous letter about Madeleine McCann finds no evidence.
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Portuguese police searching for Madeleine McCann are handed the first results of forensic tests.
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Almost 350 calls are made with information about missing toddler Madeleine McCann after a TV broadcast.
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Forensic clues may have been destroyed in the hours after Madeleine McCann's disappearance, police say.
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The mother of missing Madeleine McCann is to be re-interviewed by Portuguese detectives later.
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LONDON, Sept. 8 -- Traces of blood discovered by British sniffer dogs in a car rented by Gerry and Kate McCann have led Portuguese police to believe that 4-year-old Madeleine McCann was killed and not kidnapped, according to family members and friends.
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Portuguese police released the only suspect in the case of missing British four-year-old Madeleine McCann on Tuesday after questioning him for more than eight hours, police chief inspector Olegario de Sousa said.
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Here's an up-to-the-minute round-up from Europe of what has been doing in the ongoing potboiler regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing 3-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped from her room at a Portuguese vacation resort in May. Should you have had your head buried in the sand during the past few months or were abducted by aliens, first the background: Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann had allegedly put all of their children to bed in a room at the Portuguese vacation village and were "relaxing with friends" over a few drinks at a tapas bar close to their room. Yes, the children were alone, unsupervised, but "being checked up on regularly" by their doting Doctor-parents. Varying accounts exist of how much alcohol was consumed during the evening. At the last bed-check, allegedly around 10 pm, Mrs. McCann allegedly discovered Maddie to be missing. Early reports indicated she returned to the tapas bar shouting hysterically "They've taken her, they've taken her." A massive month-long manhunt ensured and failed to turn up any clue of the little girl, despite leads pouring in, sightings of her in places as far away as Belgium. Vowing not to leave Portugal until Maddie was returned to them, the McCanns fled Portugal for the safety of Britain last week when Portuguese authorities stopped just shy of directly accusing the couple of having either accidentally or purposely killed their daughter and covered up the toddler's death with a fake abduction story. Since then, the accusations have been flying, tensions mounting and tempers here on Topix in the various fora running hot and heavy. And now, as a public service from Europe, a round-up of the latest headlines concerning the disappearance/death/kidnapping/murder/story of Madeleine McCann, age 3... (more) *********************************************
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Portuguese police are investigating an area nine miles from where Madeleine McCann went missing, after a tip-off from a Dutch source.