Hearings of Murat's wife used up all of Thursday's work time. 

The chief inspector who is going to be responsible for the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007 arrived this Thursday at the Polícia Judiciaria's building in Faro, at a time when questioning of the witnesses has been extended until Friday.

The inspector who takes over the new job on the 22nd of December, Nicola Wall from the Metropolitan Police Service, arrived at the PJ in Faro at 09h25, sided by chief inspector Andy redwood who has been responsible for the British investigation over the last three and a half years and leaves the investigation due to his retirement. None of the inspectors made any comment to the journalists.

The questioning in the Algarve of 10 of the 11 witnesses that have been summoned by the British investigators started on Tuesday and were supposed to end this Thursday, but the hearing of the wife of Murat, a man who has been pointed out several times as possibly being involved in the little girl's disappearance, took up all of the work time on Wednesday.

Maddie disappeared in 2007

Therefore the questioning of Robert Murat was scheduled for Friday. 

The investigation focuses on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann on the 3rd of May of 2007 when she was sleeping with her younger siblings in a bedroom in an apartment at a tourist resort in Praia da Luz, Algarve.