18/09/2007

McCann Case 'Focus On Finding Madeleine'

The new spokesperson for the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann has said that Gerry and Kate McCann are innocent and that the focus of the investigation must return to finding the four-year-old.

Clarence Mitchell said that the focus of the investigation had to move away from the "rampant, unfounded and inaccurate speculation" of recent days.

Earlier this month, the couple were both named as formal suspects in their daughter's disappearance by Portuguese police.

The move followed the discovery of DNA evidence, found in a car hired by the McCanns three weeks after Madeleine vanished.

A Portuguese judge is studying a dossier on the case to decide whether or not to bring charges against the couple.

Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3.

(KMcA)

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