Kate McCann “How Do You Prove Innocence?”
Gerry McCann “It Was Like Dining In Your Backgarden”
By Richard Holt Last Updated: 12:01pm BST 01/10/2007 Madeleine McCann’s grandmother has claimed that the missing four-year-old was drugged before being abducted in Portugal. Eileen McCann said that otherwise, her granddaughter would have screamed when she was taken from the family’s holiday apartment. The 69-year-old was speaking to the Belfast Telegraph 150 days after the [...]
By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz Last Updated: 12:01am BST 30/09/2007 Portuguese police believe Madeleine McCann died after falling down a flight of steps and that her parents panicked, hiding her body because they feared being blamed, it was claimed yesterday. It was alleged that the four-year-old smashed the back of her head on [...]
By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz, Gordon Rayner and Emma Henry Last Updated: 2:25AM BST 13/09/2007 Madeleine McCann’s parents have said they will not use the £1 million fund donated by the public to help pay for their defence. Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a senior legal team including Michael Caplin QC, who [...]
Last Updated: 2:05AM BST 12/09/2007 What is the significance of a DNA sample found in the McCanns’ apartment? A DNA sample, said to be blood, was found on the window sill of the McCanns’ apartment. There have also been reports of a second bloodstain on the floor. But a small amount of Madeleine’’s blood in [...]
By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz Last Updated: 2:05AM BST 12/09/2007 The police case against Kate and Gerry McCann was submitted to the public prosecutor today, amid conflicting reports about the nature of the DNA case against them. According to police briefings given to Portuguese journalists, the samples found in the back of the [...]
By Gordon Rayner, Caroline Gammell, and Nick Britten Last Updated: 2:05AM BST 12/09/2007 The father of missing Madeleine McCann has said he is “100 per cent confident” his wife had nothing to do with her disappearance. Gerry McCann, who along with his wife Kate has been declared an official suspect in the case, used his [...]
Reports by Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter Last Updated: 2:04AM BST 12/09/2007 The night of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, May 3, has been subject to claim, counter-claim, conjecture and scurrilous rumour. Today The Daily Telegraph pieces together the known facts about the fateful night, as reported by the McCanns themselves and key witnesses. 2:29pm The last picture [...]
By Gordon Rayner Last Updated: 2:03AM BST 11/09/2007 Details of the forensic evidence remain sketchy but there appears no doubt that the spotlight turned on the McCanns following the alleged discovery of blood in their hire car and apartment. Traces on the floor and windowsill of the apartment are said to have been identified as [...]
By Caroline Gammell Last Updated: 2:03AM BST 11/09/2007 The Portuguese police have faced a series of allegations of incompetence over their handling of Madeleine’s disappearance. One former police officer described the McCann apartment as the “worst preserved crime scene” he had ever witnessed. The force in the Algarve was said to have been too slow [...]
Last Updated: 2:03AM BST 11/09/2007 The McCanns’ alibi for the night Madeleine disappeared hangs on the accounts of seven friends with whom they dined at the tapas bar 40 yards from their apartment. All have been questioned at length, all have protested the McCanns’ innocence, and one believes she saw the real kidnapper leaving the [...]
