MADELEINE MCCANN – GRANDE DEBATE SOBRE O CASO
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A seguir referimos elementos fundamentais da investigação e as posições dos jornais ingleses «The Sun» e «The Guardian», este um jornal de referência da Esquerda europeia e mundial.
« Deal of blood, threat and tears
By BRIAN FLYNN
September 08, 2007
KATE McCann was urged to admit killing daughter Madeleine in a sick plea bargain deal offered to her by cops.
They told her in a police station showdown during two stormy days of interrogation: “Do a year for accidental death and your family can go home.”
In the highly-charged confrontation, Portuguese officers citing forensic evidence told the GP she would receive a jail sentence of between two and three years if she signed a confession.
They said they were working on a theory that Maddie, four, died accidentally after her mother doped her with a children’s painkiller in the family’s Algarve holiday apartment.
And they suggested Kate may then have panicked and hidden the body before moving it to its final resting place weeks later in the family’s hire car.
Cops, who say DNA from Maddie was found in the motor, told Kate that under Portuguese law she could expect to serve just 12 months in “supervised custody” before going home if she confessed, a police source said.
And they tried to tempt her into signing by saying her husband Gerry — who early today was declared a suspect — would immediately be freed without charge so he could take the couple’s two-year-old twins back to Britain.
But appalled Kate, also officially a suspect — rejected the deal, telling cops: “How dare you?”
And she insisted again that she was completely innocent.
Last night she was freed without charge to return to her villa and look after her children.
She said she was “horrified” that police were convinced she’d killed Maddie and covered it up.
And as she was driven away, her first words to friends were: “I just want to see the kids.”
Evidence ... police present their
case against Kate
Minutes earlier Gerry had arrived at the police station for his interview — but cops kept them apart on different floors to prevent them talking or seeing each other.
Kate, 39, of Rothley, Leics, had been quizzed during two gruelling sessions in Portimao.
The first stretched 11 hours, ending only at 1am yesterday.
It was during that stint that police outlined the evidence against her and offered a deal.
Kate’s spokeswoman revealed she was so horrified by the suggestion she had killed and hidden little Maddie that she swore at cops, branding the accusation “bloody ridiculous”.
When she refused the deal, police let her go home — only to order her back hours later for yesterday’s second session.
But then, having changed her status from witness to arguido, they bombarded her with 22 questions about Maddie’s disappearance.
In another dramatic encounter, police confronted Kate and demanded: “Tell us what you did with her.”
Kate hit back: “You must be insane to think we’d put ourselves through this”.
With Portuguese lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu at her side, cops told Kate that DNA from Maddie’s bodily fluids had been found under the seat of a silver Renault Scenic hire car.
The vehicle was rented by the McCanns 25 days AFTER the tot went missing in Praia da Luz on May 3 — still wearing her pyjamas.
They also said Maddie’s blood was found on the window and under a sofa in the villa where she vanished.
And they said sniffer dogs had detected the “smell of death” on Kate’s clothes and Maddie’s beloved Cuddle Cat toy.
Kate was also questioned about why she had washed the cuddly plaything.
And last night it emerged the devout Catholic’s Bible could be a key part of the case against her.
Detectives found it at the villa, open at the story of how David killed his son, and quizzed Kate about it.
A police source close to the investigation said: “The officers were suggesting she was driven to kill after reading it — or read it as solace after the act. It’s completely crazy.” »
(In The «Sun»)
« • Gerry McCann joins wife Kate as 'arguido'
• Mother offered light sentence for confession
• No charges and father rejects 'ludicrous' claims
Giles Tremlett, Brendan de Beer in Praia da Luz
Saturday September 8, 2007
The Guardian
Detectives investigating the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann early today told her parents that they were both now formally suspected of involvement in their daughter's death. Yesterday they apparently offered her mother, Kate, a deal if she confessed to accidentally killing the child.
The news that both parents had been declared suspects came shortly after midnight, when Gerry McCann emerged from the police headquarters in Portimao, near the Mark Warner resort where the family had been on holiday.
Mrs McCann had been released earlier in the day, following two days of questioning totalling 16 hours.
Their lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu, said: "Gerry and Kate McCann have both today been declared arguido, with no bail conditions. No charges have been brought against them. The investigation continues."
A family spokesman said the couple remain "committed to their innocence".
Mrs McCann, 39, had been questioned over forensic evidence which might suggest that Madeleine had died in the family's apartment at the holiday complex in Praia da Luz, rather than being snatched from her bed while her parents were eating dinner as the couple insist.
The family's spokesman, Justine McGuinness, said she was also asked about traces of blood found in a car hired by the couple four weeks after Madeleine's disappearance on May 3, and about DNA evidence allegedly found on clothing.
"They believe they have evidence to show that in some way she is involved in the death of her daughter, which is completely ludicrous," Ms McGuinness said.
The line detectives were following was that it was Mrs McCann who was primarily responsible for the child's death, she added. Mr McCann was later questioned separately for eight hours.
Friends and family expressed shock and disbelief at the claims. Mr McCann's sister, Philomena, said: "They are suggesting that Kate has in some way accidentally killed Madeleine, then kept her body, then got rid of it. I have never heard anything so utterly ludicrous in my entire life."
She told ITV News: "They tried to get her to confess to having accidentally killed Madeleine by offering her a deal through her lawyer - 'if you say you killed Madeleine by accident and then hid her and disposed of the body, then we can guarantee you a two-year jail sentence or even less'." Mrs McCann had "angrily rejected" the offer and dismissed the allegations as absurd, she said.
The change in the McCanns' legal status came after the results of forensic tests taken from their apartment and car were sent to Portugal from the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham.
When Mrs McCann returned to the police station yesterday, she was confronted with a list of 22 questions, including one in which she was asked if she could explain how traces of Madeleine's blood had been found in a car that the family had hired 25 days after her disappearance.
Mr McCann insisted any suggestion his wife was involved in their daughter's disappearance was "ludicrous".
"Anyone who knows anything about May 3 knows that Kate is completely innocent," he wrote on his blog at the findmadeleine.com website. »
(In The «Guardian»)