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Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann disappeared on the
evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007 while on
holiday with her parents and twin siblings in
the Algarve region of Portugal. The British
girl went missing from an apartment, in the
central area of the resort of Praia da Luz, a
few days before her fourth birthday, and has
still not been found. Madeleine’s parents,
Kate and Gerry McCann, have said that they
left the children unsupervised in a ground
floor bedroom while they ate at a restaurant
about 130 yards (120 metres) away.[1] The
McCann family are residents of Rothley in
Leicestershire.
The initial investigation by the Polícia
Judiciária (PJ) (the Portuguese criminal in-
vestigation police) concluded that she had
been abducted.[2] After further investigation,
the PJ stated that there was a strong hypo-
thesis that she might have died in her
room.[3][4] During the investigation there
were a number of unconfirmed claimed sight-
ings of Madeleine in Portugal and elsewhere
and additional scientific evidence was ob-
tained. The investigation involved the co-op-
eration of the British and Portuguese police
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and demonstrated the differing methodolo-
gies employed by each, with regard to such
aspects as the amount of information re-
leased to the public and the legal status of
those involved in the case.[5][6]
Robert Murat, a local resident, was given
arguido (suspect) status on 15 May
2007.[7][8] Kate and Gerry McCann were also
named as arguidos on 7 September, but were
allowed to fly back to the United Kingdom on
9 September.[9][10][11] All three were
cleared, with their arguido status lifted, on
21 July 2008. The Portuguese Attorney Gen-
eral closed the case, without a result, also on
21 July.[12]
The disappearance and its aftermath were
notable for the breadth and longevity of the
media coverage. This was initially due to the
active involvement of the parents in publi-
cising the case and to several awareness-rais-
ing campaigns by international celebrities
and, latterly, to the interest that arose from
the parents being named as suspects. The
event generated international media atten-
tion with controversy surrounding the
Portuguese-led police investigation and the
actions of Madeleine’s parents. There has
also been criticism of the extent and nature
of the publicity and of the reporting of the
disappearance in both the Portuguese and
British media.
Disappearance
Madeleine disappeared from a ground floor
apartment, where the family was staying, on
the evening of 3 May 2007. The apartment
had been rented by the holiday company
Mark Warner for the summer season as part
of its Ocean Club. The nature of the Ocean
Club may have contributed to the disappear-
ance of Madeleine since, because its build-
ings are spread out across the village, anyone
can wander in and out of the holiday
areas.[13]
Her parents reported to the police that
they had taken Madeleine to their holiday
apartment at 18:00 Western European Sum-
mer Time, to prepare Madeleine and her two-
year-old twin siblings for bed.[14] Then they
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left at 20:30, leaving the apartment unlocked,
to dine with friends approximately 130 yards
(120 metres) away at a tapas bar within the
Mark Warner Ocean Summer Club.[1] The
McCanns said that they were taking turns
checking on their children. At 20:55 Matthew
Oldfield approached the bedroom window of
the children to check if he could hear any
noise in the room and at approximately
21:05/21:15 Gerry checked on the children.
At 21:20 Jane Tanner noticed a man carrying
a child going down the road next to the
apartment of the McCanns. Slightly further
down the road, Gerry was chatting to Jeremy
Wilkins, whom he had met at the resort, and
neither noticed Tanner as she walked past
them to join the rest of the group at the tapas
restaurant.[15] At 21:30 Matthew Oldfield
went to check the children but only saw the
twins through the open bedroom door.[16] At
around 22:00, Kate returned to check on the
children and found Madeleine’s bed empty
and the bedroom window open.[17] An Ocean
Club nanny, Charlotte Pennington, who was
one of the first people to arrive at the apart-
ment, said that Kate screamed both "They’ve
taken her, they’ve taken her!" and
"Madeleine’s gone!".[18] Kate said that the
police were called within 10 minutes of find-
ing her daughter gone.[19] Gerry said it was
one of their friends who alerted the resort
manager and the police.[20]
The GNR’s spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel
Costa Cabral, said that the first call to the po-
lice (PJ) was at 23:50.[21][22] According to the
Portuguese police’s missing person notice,
the disappearance had occurred "by
22:40".[23] The police stated that officers ar-
rived within 10 minutes of being alerted, and
an investigation unit began work within 30
minutes.[16] Staff and guests at the complex
searched until 04:30 while police on the
Spanish border and all airports in Portugal
and Spain were notified.[17]
Official investigation
Early stages
Following the disappearance, police carried
out a search of the surrounding area with
sniffer dogs, but it was called off on 11 May
having produced no results.[24] The Por-
tuguese police Polícia Judiciária (PJ) said
they were unsure whether Madeleine was
still alive.[25] They also examined
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photographs taken by holidaymakers to see if
any suspects could be identified.[26] The
Maritime Police searched the coast including
the caves. In the countryside, possible places
of concealment were explored. The City
Council helped the investigation by searching
sewers and waterways. On 6 May it was re-
vealed that the PJ had asked for the help of
the SIS, the Portuguese secret service.[27][28]
On 7 May, it was reported that the PJ was
looking for a 1.7-metre tall man with short
brown hair and wearing a blue coat with a
whitish collar.[29]
The Portuguese media reported that the
PJ were pursuing two lines of investigation:
an abduction by an international paedophile
network or an abduction by an adoption net-
work.[30][31][32]
Chief Inspector Olegário de Sousa said, on
17 June, that the presence of so many people
in the apartment from which Madeleine dis-
appeared, after she was found to be missing,
complicated the work of the scientific team.
He added that this could have destroyed all
the evidence and could prove to be fatal for
the investigation.[33]
Murat and Malinka
At 07:00 WEST on the morning of 14 May
2007, searches began at Casa Liliana, a villa
owned by Jennifer Murat, a British citizen,
near the apartment where Madeleine went
missing.[34] Police and scientific teams
sealed off the house, and at 16:00 the swim-
ming pool was drained.[35]
Three people, including Jennifer Murat’s
son Robert Murat, were questioned at the
main police station in nearby Portimão.
Robert Murat, a frequent visitor to the villa
who has dual British-Portuguese nationality,
had drawn the suspicion of Lori Campbell, a
Sunday Mirror journalist, who informed the
police.[7][36]
Former Murat classmate Gaynor de Jesus
said: "I do know that he has been the official
translator for the police."[37] Murat had said
he was deeply concerned about Madeleine’s
case because he had recently lost custody of
his own three-and-a-half year old daughter
who looked like the missing girl.
Robert Murat was given arguido (suspect)
status on 15 May; before being given this
status persons are treated as witnesses. It is
not clear if Murat or the police asked for the
arguido status which gives extra rights such
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as the right to remain silent.[8] Chief Inspect-
or Olegário de Sousa told a news conference
that an un-named 33-year-old (believed to be
Murat) had been interrogated, but not
enough evidence was found to justify arrest-
ing him. Sousa said police had searched five
houses on Monday and seized "various mater-
ials" from the properties which were being
subjected to scientific tests and had ques-
tioned two other un-named people as wit-
nesses. Murat stated that he was being made
a scapegoat so that the police could be seen
to have found a suspect.[38]
It was reported on 16 May that two cars
used by the Murats had been examined, and
computers, mobile phones and several video
tapes were taken from their villa.[39] It also
emerged that a British architect who built
the villa was ignored when he called police
about a hidden basement within the prop-
erty.[40]
The police were understood to have taken
in for questioning Sergey Malinka, 22, a man
of Russian origin, from whose property of-
ficers also took away a laptop computer and
two hard drives. Malinka had set up a web-
site for Murat and the two exchanged fre-
quent phone calls since Madeleine’s disap-
pearance — the reason the authorities star-
ted suspecting him.[41][42] Chief Police In-
spector Olegário de Sousa reiterated there
was insufficient evidence to make any ar-
rests. Police said that Malinka had been
questioned as a witness for approximately
five hours, which did not, having regard to
the "dynamic" nature of the investigation,
mean that he could not become a suspect.[43]
Malinka spoke negatively of the coverage
of the case in the Portuguese media, which
had alleged that he was a convicted sexual
offender. Malinka denied he had contacted
Murat, and said he was "completely inno-
cent".[44] Inconsistencies in his account of his
relationship with Robert Murat emerged: he
had said he had not contacted Murat in a
year but Murat’s mobile phone records al-
legedly show he called Mr Malinka at 23:40
on the night Madeleine went missing.[45][46]
On 19 May, Portuguese detectives flew to
England to interview Dawn Murat, the es-
tranged wife of Robert Murat, and detectives
re-interviewed other witnesses connected
with Murat.[47][48]
Murat was interviewed for a second and
third time on 10 July and 11 July to clarify
what detectives described as details and
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possible contradictions from his previous
statement in the light of new information.[49]
On the second day detectives from the Polícia
Judiciária questioned three friends of the
McCanns who were dining with them at the
time of the disappearance, Rachael Oldfield,
Russell O’Brien and Fiona Payne, "to go over
their accounts of events on 3 May". The three
were also brought face to face with Mur-
at.[50] As a result of the interviews, police ex-
amined discrepancies between statements
from the three friends and that from Murat,
in particular claims from the friends that they
saw Murat outside the holiday complex on
the night of the disappearance when he had
stated that he was at home with his moth-
er.[50] Murat’s mother, Jenny, subsequently
corroborated his alibi.[51]
Police, including British detectives, re-
sumed searching Casa Liliana on 4
August.[52] Vegetation was cleared and the
grounds were searched but despite the use of
hi-tech scanning equipment and a British
sniffer dog no new evidence was found.[53]
Reports in the Portuguese press sugges-
ted that Murat met Gerry while the latter was
campaigning for the Labour Party. Murat
denied this on 13 September describing the
reports as "absolutely ridiculous" saying "I’ve
never met the man before".[54] Murat had his
computers and other possessions returned to
him, by the police, in late March 2008.[55] He
was cleared of any involvement in the disap-
pearance, and his arguido status was lifted
on 21 July.[12]
McCanns as suspects
The Polícia Judiciária (PJ), on 6 September,
officially interviewed Kate for a second time,
at the police station in Portimão with the
McCanns’ Portuguese lawyer, Carlos Pinto de
Abreu, present. The family’s spokeswoman
Justine McGuinness said, "Kate will answer
every question put to her — she has nothing
to hide."[56] Pinto de Abreu made a formal
application for the couple’s status to be
changed from ’witness’ to ’assistant’ in the
investigation. This is a technical move which
would allow the McCanns to have more in-
formation about the progress of the investig-
ation.[56] When Pinto de Abreu emerged with
Kate from the police station in the early
hours of 7 September, after more than 10
hours of questioning, he said Kate "was inter-
viewed as a witness and she still remains a
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witness. The investigation is ongoing and we
cannot say any more."[56]
Kate returned for further interview later
on 7 September and was formally declared a
suspect by the Portuguese police.[57] After
questioning, Kate was released from the po-
lice station just before 16:00 without being
charged.[9] Gerry was interviewed at the
same police station during the afternoon and
evening of 7 September and afterwards Pinto
de Abreu announced that Gerry had also
been named as a formal suspect.[9][10] Before
she became a suspect Kate said "The police
don’t want a murder in Portugal and all the
publicity about them not having paedophile
laws here, so they’re blaming us," and Gerry
said "We are being absolutely stitched
up."[58] Pinto de Abreu said that claims by re-
latives that police had offered Kate a plea
bargain if she admitted to accidentally killing
her child were wrong and the result of "a
misunderstanding".[59]
The UK Foreign Office is providing the
McCanns with assistance.[60] Home Secret-
ary Jacqui Smith said on 9 September "I am
clear that the Portuguese police have the ob-
jective of solving this crime, and most import-
antly finding Madeleine, and that is what we
in our support of the McCanns have tried to
do as well."[61] Despite the ongoing investig-
ation, the McCanns flew home on 9 Septem-
ber via Faro and East Midlands airports.[11]
During the evening of 10 September, Sky
News crime correspondent Martin Brunt,
commenting on the analysis of samples re-
turned from the Forensic Science Service,
said that "According to police, it shows the
presence of Madeleine’s body in the boot of
the family’s hire car five weeks after she dis-
appeared."[62] Shortly afterwards, however,
the national director of the Polícia Judiciária,
Alípio Ribeiro, cautioned that the tests had
not been conclusive and forensic science ex-
perts pointed to the dangers of contamina-
tion.[63] Earlier, McGuinness had said that
Kate told detectives there was "no way"
Madeleine’s blood could have been found in-
side the car, which they had hired some 25
days after the disappearance, and continued
to protest her innocence.[9] To enable the
McCanns to carry out independent scientific
tests, the car was being kept in the garage of
tycoon John Geraghty at his villa near Praia
da Luz.[64]
Sousa stated that at the end of the invest-
igation the case file would be handed to the
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public prosecutor.[59] The papers were given
to the local prosecutor, José Cunha de Magal-
hães e Meneses, on September 11. Meneses
decided that there was sufficient evidence to
pass the case to a judge, who had the power
to approve any charges and also decide, with-
in 10 days, on other actions that could have
included placing the McCanns under house
arrest in the Algarve, ordering further inter-
rogations and authorising further
searches. [65] The judge appointed was Pedro
Miguel dos Anjos Frias, Portimão’s ’juiz de in-
strução criminal’.[66][67]
A district prosecutor, Luis Bilro Verão, has
now been appointed in addition to Meneses,
to oversee the investigation.[68] On 12
September Attorney General Fernando José
Pinto Monteiro said that further police action
was necessary after which there could be a
reassessment of possible bail conditions for
the suspects.[69]
Anjos Frias authorised, on 12 September,
the seizure of Kate’s diary and Gerry’s
laptop, thought to be at the McCanns’ Roth-
ley home, and other items. Leicestershire Po-
lice are expected to visit the McCanns, to at-
tempt to implement this warrant.[70] Social
workers visited the McCanns on 13 Septem-
ber, at their request.[71] Anjos Frias ruled on
19 September that the McCanns would not
be reinterviewed for the time being.[72]
The McCanns have been quoted as believ-
ing that their phones have been tapped from
fairly early in the investigation.[73]Clarence
Mitchell, on 17 September, resigned as dir-
ector of the Central Office of Information’s
media monitoring unit to become the
McCanns’ media spokesman.[74] In his first
media appearance, the following day, he said
that there was an innocent explanation for
any potentially incriminating evidence the
police may have found.[75] Then Gerry said
that he believed his daughter’s kidnapper
had been hiding behind a door in their holi-
day apartment as he checked on his chil-
dren.[76]
In an effort to rebut accusations that she
was on medication at the time of the disap-
pearance, hair from Kate was tested in
November. Toxicology tests showed no evid-
ence that she had taken drugs in the past
eight months. The twins were also tested to
show that they were never given sedat-
ives.[77] A team of four Portuguese detectives
and scientists were briefed by the Forensic
Science Service, at Leicestershire Police
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headquarters in Enderby on 29 November,
about the forensic tests that the Birmingham
laboratory had carried out. The results were
understood to be inconclusive.[78][79] In early
February 2008, Alípio Ribeiro, the national
director of the PJ, said that there "perhaps
should have been another assessment" before
the McCanns were declared arguidos.[80]
It was reported on 10 April that parts of
the McCanns’ interviews with the Portuguese
police had been leaked. These were reported
to include a statement that Madeleine had re-
monstrated with her mother for leaving the
children unattended when they had been cry-
ing the previous night. Clarence Mitchell said
that the leak was a "deliberate smear" and
commented that it was curious that this
should emerge on the day that the McCanns
were in Brussels promoting a child welfare
initiative.[81][82] The Polícia Judiciária said
that it was entirely false that the contents of
the report included material from the inquiry.
They also regretted Clarence Mitchell’s "un-
founded comments".[83]
In the judgement from the Tribunal da
Relação de Évora, by Judge Fernando Ribeiro
Cardoso on 29 April, it was revealed that the
McCanns were being investigated for al-
legedly neglecting their daughter and that
the police inquiry covered the possibilities of
homicide, abandonment, concealment of a
corpse and abduction.[84][85] A judge in Por-
tugal, on 15 May, extended the secrecy on
the prosecution files for a further three
months.[86] The McCanns were cleared of
any involvement in the disappearance, and
their arguido status was lifted on 21 July.[12]
Other suspects
The Portuguese police disclosed information,
on 25 May 2007, about a possible suspect in
addition to Mr Murat: this was a reference to
a middle-build Caucasian, approximately
178 cm (5 ft 10 in) tall. However, the height
of the man was subsequently corrected to
that given on the Portuguese press release as
170 cm (5 ft 7 in). The man, aged between 35
and 40, was seen at 21:30 on 3 May, by a
close friend of the McCanns, but this inform-
ation was only made public two and half
weeks later.[87][88][89] According to Chief Po-
lice Officer Olegário de Sousa, the man, was
carrying a child, or something which might
have resembled a child. He fitted the descrip-
tion of a suspect being hunted by Spanish
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police for the kidnappings of Sara Morales,
14, and 7-year-old Yeremi Vargas, in the
Canary Islands.[90]
Detectives tried to trace a British man
who left the harbour in his yacht shortly after
the disappearance, after having moored
there for two years. A witness reported see-
ing a man carrying a child in his arms down
to the marina, hours after Madeleine disap-
peared. On 29 May, detectives questioned
four boat owners, three of them English,
whose vessels were moored at the marina in
Lagos, a town about five miles (8 km) from
Praia da Luz.[91]
A mystery sample of DNA was found, on 1
June, in the bedroom from where Madeleine
disappeared. The DNA did not match that of
the McCanns, their three children nor that of
Murat. The PJ handed the sample over to the
national forensic science laboratories, the In-
stituto Nacional de Medicina Legal, and
stated that there is a new suspect.[92] In
early August there was a suggested link with
Urs Hans Von Aesch who had been on holi-
day in the area around the time that
Madeleine went missing. Von Aesch, a resid-
ent of Benimantell, Spain, who was implic-
ated by Swiss police with the disappearance
of five-year-old Ylenia Lenhard from Appen-
zell, Switzerland, had recently committed sui-
cide.[93][94]
The occupants of the flat above that from
which Madeleine disappeared reported an in-
truder who apparently had entered with a
key. There had been a similar burglary in the
complex some weeks earlier. On 17 August,
search warrants were signed for the home of
a new suspect.[95]
Other aspects of the
investigation
On 7 June, Spanish police received a phone
call from a man claiming to know the where-
abouts of Madeleine, using a mobile phone
registered in Argentina. The call was de-
scribed as "credible".[96]
In June, Spanish investigative journalist
Antonio Toscano claimed that the four-year-
old was abducted by a French sex offender,
as part of a Europe-wide paedophile net-
work.[97] Then, on 28 June, Toscano claimed
that Madeleine was alive and well in Europe
but Madeleine’s parents refused to meet with
him.[98] Determined to leave no stone un-
turned, police also examined hundreds of
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reports from psychics and clairvoyants claim-
ing to know the location of Madeleine. The
police said that they decided to check them
all in case they might contain a message from
the kidnapper.[99]
The investigation was thrown into confu-
sion on 10 June when the detective coordinat-
ing the hunt, Gonçalo Amaral, head of the re-
gional Polícia Judiciária, and four other Por-
tuguese police officers, were charged with al-
leged offences relating to the inquiry into the
disappearance of Joana Cipriano, from a vil-
lage seven miles (11 km) from where
Madeleine disappeared.[100]
The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, on 13
June, received a letter that suggested that
Madeleine was buried on a hillside, near
Arão, nine miles (14 km) north-east from
Praia da Luz. After a search of the area,
however, the Portuguese police abandoned
this lead on 15 June.[101][102]
In early August, the British police team
brought in to assist found microscopic traces
of blood on the wall of the apartment from
which Madeleine disappeared and that had
not been detected by the Portuguese police.
Using specially trained sniffer dogs and ultra-
violet technology they discovered the blood
despite the apartment having being cleaned
and reoccupied.[103][104] Samples of blood,
hair, and fibres were sent to the UK Forensic
Science Service in Birmingham for DNA ana-
lysis.[105] Examination of the scientific evid-
ential material is continuing and initial find-
ings, described as "significant", were sent to
Portugal around 4 September.[105][106]
Following the publicising of the discovery
of the blood spots, Sousa stated "The family
are not suspects. This is the official posi-
tion."[4] Then on 11 August, Sousa added that
new evidence had given "intensity" to the
possibility Madeleine had been killed.[107]
Sousa confirmed on 15 August that the
sniffer dogs, which could only pick up the
scent of a body which had been in situ for
more than two hours, had detected the scent
of a dead body.[108] John Barrett, a former
Scotland Yard dog handler, said that the dogs
used to detect a ’death smell’ on Kate’s Bible
and clothes were brought in too long after
Madeleine vanished since the crucial scent
lasts for no longer than a month.[60]
The position of the police was clarified on
16 August by Alípio Ribeiro, national director
of the Polícia Judiciária, who said that al-
though there was a strong hypothesis that
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Madeleine was dead, it could not be con-
firmed and the investigation was nowhere
near a breakthrough.[3][109] António Cluny,
president of Portugal’s public prosecutor’s
service, said on 24 September that "Without
the little girl’s body everything is extremely
complicated". He went on to stress that all
options from abduction to Madeleine’s death
were still open.[110]
The Portuguese police investigation team
was run down in October 2007. Following the
removal of Gonçalo Amaral as investigation
coordinator, other departures reduced the
number of people working on the case from a
peak of 200 to just six detectives which, with
holidays, could mean as few as three working
on the case at any one time.[111][112] Paulo
Rebelo, an assistant national director of the
Polícia Judiciária, took over responsibility for
the case on 8 October.[113]
Ribeiro confirmed, during October, that
Portuguese police officers were planning to
fly to the UK to assist in the re-interviewing
of the friends who dined with the McCanns at
the time of the disappearance.[114] To pre-
pare for the re-interviewing, Joannes Thuy, a
spokesman for the Portuguese public prosec-
utor, said on 15 January 2008 that Eurojust
had been asked to be the go-between for the
Portuguese and the UK authorities.[115] As
part of the preparations, Detective Superin-
tendent Stuart Prior, of Leicestershire Police,
flew to Portugal for discussions with his
counterparts, in early March.[116] The inter-
views, carried out by Leicestershire Police
and attended by the Portuguese Police,
began on 8 April.[117]
Alberto Costa, Portugal’s Minister of
Justice, told a parliamentary committee hear-
ing in Lisbon, on 13 February, that Por-
tuguese police were "at a stage now where
we are approaching the conclusion of the
process."[118] Luis Antonio, the estranged
husband of Murat’s girlfriend Michaela Wal-
czuch, was questioned by police for a second
time in early February.[119]
The Portuguese police planned to hold a
reconstruction, of the events of the night of
Madeleine’s disappearance, in May 2008.
They asked the McCanns, their friends, and
holidaymakers to attend.[120] However, the
reconstruction was cancelled after the
friends declined to participate.[121]
Alípio Ribeiro resigned as the national dir-
ector of the PJ on 7 May, citing media pres-
sure. His replacement is José Maria Almeida
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Rodrigues, a senior detective based in Coim-
bra.[122]
Fernando José Pinto Monteiro, the Por-
tuguese Attorney General, said on 1 July that
prosecutors had received the final police re-
port.[123][124] He announced, on 21 July, that
the case would be closed due to lack of evid-
ence that any crime was committed by the
persons placed under formal investigation.
However, the files will still be periodically re-
viewed and could be reopened if new evid-
ence emerges.[12] The police files, running to
17 volumes comprising over 11,000 pages,
were made public on 4 August.[125]
External assistance
Throughout the investigation support has
been provided by the British authorities for
the Portuguese police. Immediately after the
disappearance experts from Britain were
flown out to assist the Portuguese police ex-
perts and Leicestershire Police sent family li-
aison officers to help the McCann family.[126]
On 9 May, Interpol released a yellow notice,
issued to help locate missing persons who
are not able to identify themselves, to all
member police forces.[127] A team of mobile
phone experts flew to Portugal on 29 May
2007 to analyse mobile phone data from the
area at the time of the abduction. They used
triangulation techniques to track mobile
phone movements down to a couple of
yards.[128] More experts, this time from the
British Child Exploitation and Online Protec-
tion Centre, flew into Portugal on 31 July to
assist the local detectives, for whom all leave
had been cancelled, by developing a psycho-
logical profile of a possible abductor.[129]
In early August, British detectives again
flew in to assist. They were accompanied by
specially trained sniffer dogs and equipment
for underground detection and ultraviolet in-
struments for identifying blood.[53][103]
Unofficial investigations
At least five firms of private investigators
have been engaged to make enquiries. At the
end of May 2007 the McCanns hired Control
Risks Group.[130] It was announced on 29
September that tycoon Brian Kennedy was
paying for private investigators to search in
Morocco.[64] Spanish agency Método 3 were
engaged with the enquiries lead by Francisco
Marco.[131] It was disclosed in January 2008
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that Hogan International, headed by Noel
Hogan, former Metropolitan Police Detective
Superintendent, was carrying out a cold case
review, in conjunction with Método 3.[132]
US-based investigation firm Oakley Interna-
tional was hired for six months in 2008 but it
was decided in August not to renew their
contract. Brian Kennedy, who underwrites
the Fund, thought that their fees of around
£500,000 were not value for money.[133]
Another, unnamed, US organisation was en-
gaged in August 2008, also on a £500,000
six-month contract, to lead the investigation.
Método 3 were to continue to follow up in-
formation from Spain and Portugal.[134]
Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia
paid for the Barragem do Arade reservoir,
35 miles (56 km) east of Praia da Luz, to be
searched by divers in early February 2008.
He claimed to have received intelligence
from underworld sources that Madeleine had
been killed and dumped in a lake.[80] The ini-
tial search was unsuccessful but it resumed
in the middle of March, funded by the So-
ciedade Portuguesa de Engenharia e Con-
strução.[135][136] Several items were found in
the reservoir. Initially discovered were sever-
al lengths of cord, some plastic tape and a
single white, cotton sock.[137] Then two
plastic bags, one containing small bones,
were found on 14 March.[138]
Sightings of Madeleine
McCann
The last confirmed sighting of Madeleine was
in the early evening of 3 May 2007, by
Miguel Matias, manager of the beach-side
Paraíso restaurant, who saw Gerry dancing
with his daughter while the family ate a meal
on the terrace.[76] Since then there have
been many reported sightings of Madeleine
both in Portugal and elsewhere in the world,
but none have produced any firm leads.
However, several reports have not been con-
clusively eliminated. The Portuguese police,
on 9 July 2007, said that they believed that, if
still alive, it was likely that the missing girl
was still being held in Portugal.[139] The
McCanns gained limited access to police
files, concerning possible sightings, on 7 July
2008.[140]
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Response to the
disappearance
Tributes in Rothley on 17 May 2007
Over the subsequent months Madeleine’s
parents implemented a publicity campaign
that kept the disappearance in the public eye
in many countries though there was criticism
that the media attention was excessive and
lacked objectivity. The disappearance led the
news in the UK for over a week with sub-
sequent daily coverage of events. There was
regular coverage in Portugal and periodic
coverage in other countries.
An official site for the search was set up
and a fund-raising company, known as
Madeleine’s Fund: Leaving No Stone Un-
turned, was launched. The directors of the
company subsequently decided that no
money from the Fund would be used to pay
the McCanns’ legal costs.[141] There were ap-
peals from many political leaders and sport-
ing personalities and over £2.6 million of re-
wards were offered. The parents had an audi-
ence with the Pope and embarked on a tour
of key European and North African countries,
together with a visit to the United States, to
raise and maintain awareness.[142] The publi-
city spawned attempted scams with fake
websites set up, people collecting money on
false pretences and others falsely claiming to
have information on Madeleine’s
whereabouts.
Following accusations in the media the
McCanns, their friends, and Robert Murat in-
stigated libel actions. The Daily Express and
the Daily Star published front-page apologies
and agreed to pay the McCanns £550,000 in
libel damages.[143] A grouping of British
newspapers settled with Murat for a
£600,000 payout and issued a public apology.
Sergey Malinka and Michaela Walczuch ac-
cepted more than £100,000 each.[144] The
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friends of the McCanns, known as the Tapas
Seven, were awarded around £375,000 in
damages and secured printed apologies from
Express Newspapers.[145]
Criticism of the parents
The parents have been criticised for leaving
their children alone while they ate at a
nearby restaurant despite the availability of a
babysitting service and a creche.[146][147]
There has also been criticism of the parents
in the Portuguese media. Diário de Notícias
insisted that the McCanns were suspects and
claimed that on the night Madeleine disap-
peared they had not checked on the children,
contrary to what they told police.[148] The
Daily Telegraph has reported "Portugal has
been stung by suggestions that the investiga-
tion has been handled ineptly, and while
there is much sympathy locally for the
McCanns they have also been criticised for
leaving their children alone."[149]
Police questioned the couple on 10 May
2007 about why the three children were left
alone in an apartment, with the patio doors
unlocked, while they dined at the restaur-
ant.[26] In an interview with the BBC on 25
May, the McCanns acknowledged the criti-
cism, and spoke of the guilt they felt.[150] In
reply to questions posed to them on 6 June at
a press conference in Germany, when radio
reporter Sabina Müller suggested that their
behaviour was not normal for people whose
child had been abducted, they denied in-
volvement in any abduction of their daugh-
ter.[151]
On the 10 Downing Street website a peti-
tion to the Prime Minister was started on 12
June requesting that Leicestershire Social
Services fulfil their statutory obligation to in-
vestigate the circumstances which led to
Madeleine and her siblings being left unat-
tended in an unlocked, ground floor hotel
room. In response, Leicestershire County
Council said it was "discharging [its] duties
in... a full and professional manner" but the
family has declined to comment on the peti-
tion.[146] The petition was rapidly rejected,
with the reason given being the language it
contained.[152]
Following criticism in the Portuguese me-
dia of the behaviour of the McCanns, on 21
July 2007, the Crown Prosecution Service
lawyers held "informal discussions" to con-
sider whether any offence may have been
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committed under the Children and Young
Persons Act 1933, which deals with ill-treat-
ment, cruelty, neglect and abandonment of
children under 16.[153] The family said the
calls to prosecute the McCanns were hurtful
and unhelpful.[154]
The lawyer of Robert Murat, Francisco
Pagarete, criticised the McCanns in late
November. He said that they "deserve to be
cursed" for leaving their children alone.[155]
Gonçalo Amaral, who had originally headed
the police investigation, criticised the par-
ents in his book Maddie, a Verdade da
Mentira (Maddie, the Truth of the Lie), pub-
lished on 24 July 2008.[156]
Criticism of the police
There has been extensive criticism of the Por-
tuguese police in the British media.[157][158]
It was reported that there were delays in ob-
taining and analysing forensic evidence,
neither border nor marine police were given
descriptions of Madeleine for many hours
after she vanished, and officers had not been
seen making extensive door-to-door inquiries.
Critics allege that the scene had not been se-
cured as tightly as it would have been in the
UK and the lack of appeals for help and in-
formation has surprised British police ex-
perts.[159]
It has emerged that the police failed to
ask for surveillance pictures of vehicles leav-
ing Praia da Luz at the time of Madeleine’s
disappearance nor of the road between Lagos
and Vila Real de Santo António, on the Span-
ish border.[160] Mark Williams-Thomas, a
former Surrey detective and now a child pro-
tection expert, on 6 August described the ini-
tial forensic tests as "inept" and criticised the
three-month delay in the Portuguese accept-
ance of the British offer of expert help. He
said that the police should have sealed the
apartment immediately, on day one, and then
conducted a thorough forensic examina-
tion.[103]
The Portuguese police have, however,
been working under legal restrictions. For in-
stance, they cannot release information be-
cause they are constrained by Article 86 of
the Portuguese penal code that says informa-
tion must not be released, apart from in ex-
ceptional circumstances, while the criminal
investigation is still taking place.[159]
Several Portuguese news media and opin-
ion makers have criticised the massive police
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Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
and law enforcement efforts, comparing it
with the efforts used to help national victims
in past similar affairs. Taking part were up to
180 Portuguese police officials and civil pro-
tection helicopters together with hundreds of
villagers and holidaymakers, an effort never
seen in the search for other child disappear-
ances in the country.[161][162]
Parallels have been drawn with the case of
disappearance of another child, Joana Cipri-
ano, who disappeared on 12 September 2004
from her home in the village of Figueira, sev-
en miles (11 km) from where Madeleine went
missing. Chief investigating officer Guilher-
mino da Encarnação was also involved in that
investigation, in which no body was found,
but which ended with the conviction of
Leonor and João Cipriano, Joana’s mother
and uncle.[163] Since then Gonçalo Amaral
and four other Portuguese police officers
have been charged with offences.[164] A
judge decided, in February 2008, that Amaral
will stand trial accused of falsifying evidence
and covering up for the other four who are
accused of torture.[165]
The height of the man being sought by the
police was given on the Portuguese press re-
lease as 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) but it mistakenly ap-
peared as 5 ft 10 in (1.8 m) the English ver-
sion.[87] Madeleine took a favourite toy to
bed with her on the night she disappeared,
on which an abductor could have left some
trace of DNA evidence, but police did not
check it.[166] Then on 1 June 2007, June
Hughes, from Glasgow, who had stayed in
the apartment the previous week with her
husband, expressed surprise that the police
had not made any contact with them.[167]
Family members, on 9 June, complained of
harassment by the police when they tried to
put up ’missing’ posters at Lisbon Airport.
There were suggestions that the Portuguese
authorities wanted to prevent these posters
being displayed over concerns about damage
to their tourist industry.[168]
There was criticism that, on 6 June, two of
the senior police officers involved in the case,
Olegário de Sousa and Gonçalo Amaral, the
head of the regional Polícia Judiciária, took a
leisurely lunch and an observer commented
that they laughed at what seemed to be an in-
joke as the McCanns appeared on a television
news broadcast. Olegário de Sousa defended
their actions: "It is very, very sad but a per-
son’s free time is for lunch," he said. "The
persons are in charge in the day, they are
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working in the day but they must eat and
drink, it is normal. I drink what I want to
drink when I can drink."[169] Gonçalo Amaral,
in an interview given to the Diário de Notí-
cias in October, said "The British police have
only been working on that which the McCann
couple want them to and which is most con-
venient for them."[170] Subsequently the PJ’s
national director, Alípio Ribeiro, told journal-
ists at a conference in Lisbon on 2 October,
that Amaral’s "commission of service has
ceased".[111] Amaral returned to his post in
the PJ branch of Faro, the seat of the dis-
trict.[171] Tavares de Almeida, the deputy
head of the inquiry, asked to be put on un-
paid leave shortly before it was announced
that he had been indicted over the alleged
torture of a suspect in an unrelated investiga-
tion.[172][173][174]
Richard Branson stepped into the debate
on 15 October 2007. Branson, who has con-
tributed £100,000 to the McCanns’ defence
fund, criticised the Portuguese police and
press for ’overstepping their mark’ by accus-
ing the McCanns of involvement in the disap-
pearance.[175] This was rebutted by the not-
able forensic investigator Professor David
Barclay of Robert Gordon University.[176] His
view was that the police were right to con-
sider the McCanns as suspects and that the
child is probably dead.[177]
Family
Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann’s right eye
Madeleine Beth McCann, daughter of Kate
and Gerry McCann, born 2003 in Leicester,
was living with her parents and younger twin
siblings, brother Sean and sister Amelie, in
Rothley, Leicestershire.[127] Madeleine was
10
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
made a ward of court, during summer 2007,
on application by her parents.[178] Mrs
Justice Hogg has effectively been
Madeleine’s legal guardian since then.[140]
A notable identification feature is a
coloboma of her right eye where the pupil
runs into the iris in the form of a black radial
strip reaching from the pupil out to the edge
of the white at the ’7 o’clock’ position, about
30° clockwise from the bottom.[179][180] This
has been utilised in publicity incorporating
the word ’LOOK’ with the black radial line in
the first ’O’.[181]
On 1 May 2009, the McCanns released an
image of how a 6-year-old Madeleine might
appear.[182]
Kate McCann
Kate Marie McCann (née Healy; born 1967),
Madeleine’s mother, is a medical general
practitioner.[183] Before the disappearance
she worked as a part-time GP in Melton Mow-
bray.[184] However, she has said that she will
not return to work as a GP.[185]
Born in Allerton, Liverpool, Healy studied
medicine at the University of Dundee. Ini-
tially she specialised to become a gynaecolo-
gist, but later became an anaesthetist. She
first met her husband Gerry McCann while
employed at the Western Infirmary in Glas-
gow.[186] They were married in 1998. Like
her husband, she is a practising Roman Cath-
olic.[187]
Gerry McCann
Gerald Patrick McCann, Madeleine’s father,
is a cardiologist. He currently works at the
Glenfield Hospital in Leicester though he was
on unpaid special leave following the disap-
pearance. On 1 November 2007 he returned
to work on a three half-days per week basis,
initially with no patient contact.[185] Born in
Glasgow, he attended Holyrood Secondary
School and studied medicine at Glasgow
University.[186]
Friends
The McCanns together with their seven
friends, with whom they were dining on the
evening of the disappearance, have been col-
lectively referred to in the media as the Ta-
pas Nine.[188] The group of friends, alone,
have sometimes been called the Tapas
Seven.[189] The friends are Dr Russell
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O’Brien and his partner Jane Tanner, Dr Mat-
thew Oldfield and his wife Rachael Oldfield,
David Payne with his wife Dr Fiona Payne
and his mother-in-law Dianne Webster.[190]
All nine attended a private meeting, at a
Rothley hotel, in late November 2007.[191]
See also
• Child abduction alert system
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External links
• Official site for finding Madeleine McCann
• Final police report

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