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Kate and Gerry McCann could be cleared over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance

Kate and Gerry McCann could be cleared over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance

By Emily Nash In Praia Da Luz 07/02/08 The McCanns could be cleared over daughter Madeleine’s disappearance in months as police plan to shelve the case, it was claimed yesterday. Top detectives believe the case will never be solved and are thought to be preparing public opinion for the fact no one will be charged. [...]

Kate and Gerry McCann could be cleared over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance

Kate and Gerry McCann could be cleared over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance

By Emily Nash In Praia Da Luz 07/02/08 The McCanns could be cleared over daughter Madeleine’s disappearance in months as police plan to shelve the case, it was claimed yesterday. Top detectives believe the case will never be solved and are thought to be preparing public opinion for the fact no one will be charged. [...]

Top Portugal cop Alipio Ribeiro ‘sorry’ for McCann comment

Top Portugal cop Alipio Ribeiro ‘sorry’ for McCann comment

Emily Nash In Praia Da Luz 06/02/08 Portugal’s most senior policeman has apologised to his bosses over claims police rushed into making Kate and Gerry McCann suspects in daughter Madeleine’s disappearance. Alipio Ribeiro said he should have been more cautious in discussing the case and told Minister of Justice Alberto Costa he had a “slip [...]

For the Record

For the Record

Edited By Fiona Parker 05/02/08 The balloons released to symbolise every day Madeleine McCann has been missing, and the picture of a little girl holding a poster of Maddy, took place in Madrid last June, not last week. (Page 16, January 31) Felixstowe is in Suffolk, not Kent. (Page 19, February 2). The Daily Mirror [...]

Madeleine McCann probe team in row over letting Kate and Gerry off hook

Madeleine McCann probe team in row over letting Kate and Gerry off hook

Emily Nash In Praia Da Luz 05/02/08 Hopes that Kate and Gerry McCann would be dropped from the list of Maddie suspects were dashed yesterday. Attorney General Jose Pinto Monteiro said their status as arguidos would remain despite the head of the CID admitting that pointing the finger at them had been “hasty”. A source [...]

Jeremy Vargas’s disappearance in Spain being linked to Madeleine McCann

Jeremy Vargas’s disappearance in Spain being linked to Madeleine McCann

Graham Brough In Las Palmas, Canary Islands 04/02/08 A boy of seven who vanished in Spain is being linked to Madeleine’s disappearance. Detectives hunting for Jeremy Vargas, who went missing from outside his home in Gran Canaria eight weeks before Madeleine, are working closely with police in Portugal. Yesterday, his mum Ithaisa Suarez, 24, said: [...]

Voice of the Daily Mirror: Small comfort

Voice of the Daily Mirror: Small comfort

04/02/08 The admission by a Portuguese police chief that his force was over-hasty in making the McCanns formal suspects will bring them a little comfort. Madeleine’s parents are enduring a terrible ordeal which deserves understanding and sympathy. We hope this admission means they can return to the resort where their daughter disappeared as parents searching [...]

Divers hunt for Madeleine McCann’s body in a remote reservoir

Divers hunt for Madeleine McCann’s body in a remote reservoir

EXCLUSIVE: Underworld tip-off leads to fresh search Emily Nash At Barragem Do Arade, Silves 04/02/08 The search for Madeleine McCann took a grim twist yesterday as divers trawled a remote reservoir for her body. The hunt, near the Algarve resort where she went missing in May, followed an underworld tip-off to lawyer Marcos Correia. Marcos, [...]

Police chief: We were too quick to make Gerry and Kate ‘arguidos’

Police chief: We were too quick to make Gerry and Kate ‘arguidos’

By GERARD COUZENS in Praia Da Luz and POLLY DUNBAR in London - Last updated at 09:30am on 3rd February 2008 Kate and Gerry McCann’s bid to clear their names over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine has been given a massive boost after the head of Portugal’s police admitted it had been a mistake to [...]

Response to Mr Ribeiro’s reported comments

Response to Mr Ribeiro’s reported comments

Date Released: 02/02/2008 14:44:00 Responding to the reported comments of Alipio Ribeiro, the National Director of the Portuguese Policia Judiciaria (PJ), in an interview recorded for Radio Renascenca due to be broadcast on Sunday Feb 3rd 2008, Clarence Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry McCann very much welcome Alipio Ribeiro’s reported comments in which he accepts [...]

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