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3 MINUTES TO DUMP HER BODY

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX SUSPECTS & E-FITS PHOTOS NEWS OCTOBER 2007
Original Source: EXPRESS: 20 OCTOBER 2007
Saturday October 20,2007
By David Pilditch, in Praia da Luz
 
 Crime experts revealed yesterday that it would have taken less than three minutes to hide Madeleine McCann’s body.

The specialists insisted that was all the time it would have taken for a suspect to remove her from her family’s holiday apartment and return to the resort.

The crimebusters concluded that Madeleine’s parents – or any member of their holiday party – could have disposed of her body without raising suspicion.

The independent Portuguese team carried out their own reconstruction of events the night that Madeleine vanished. They found it was “highly unlikely” she could have been taken from the apartment at the Ocean Club resort by an abductor on foot because it would have attracted too much attention.

Using a special computer programme, the experts found it would have taken less than 30 seconds to reach the church in Praia da Luz where a “trail of death” leading from the apartment is said to have ended.

British sniffer dogs picked up the scent of a corpse, leading to the theory that Madeleine’s body could have been dumped in the sea close to the church or hidden nearby.

Examining the two most likely routes, the experts concluded it would have taken “less than three minutes” to dispose of Madeleine’s corpse using a car driven at 20mph.

It is one of the principal lines of inquiry which Portuguese police have followed since Madeleine vanished on May 3.

Police believe Madeleine was killed in an accident in the apartment and are convinced her parents, Kate and Gerry, played a part in her death.

The new findings were revealed in a special investigation for a Portuguese TV programme.

Former police inspector Fransisco Moita Flores said: “There are so many contradictory theories, but she was taken, dead or alive, according to the dogs, down to the church.

“This would have to have been done by car. There is a piece of land behind the church and behind that is the sea.

“A car could take you from the apartment to the sea in 30 seconds, whichever route was used.

Let’s say something went wrong, we have about 40 seconds. If you add two minutes to dispose of the body by sea – that’s little more than two and a half minutes at the most. It would take just another 30 seconds to return to the resort.

Madeleine disappeared while the McCanns and seven holiday friends were dining at the resort.

Members of the party told police they were taking it in turns to check on their children during the meal.

Mr Flores added: “That is more than enough time for any member of the group that left the table during that meal to be considered a suspect.

“Many of the group, according to what we’re told, was absent from that table – every one of them for more than three minutes.”

Mr Flores said it would have been impossible for a suspect to carry off Madeleine without being seen.

He said: “The little girl was removed and taken elsewhere – whether alive by an abductor or dead after an accident.

“In either case, to leave the apartment there are a lot of overlooking holiday properties.

“The risk to somebody carrying the child via either of those routes would be enormous. There would have been people in the streets and cars.”

Another member of the team, Professor Paulo Sargento, of Lusofana University in Lisbon, said: “I am convinced that whatever happened happened within the McCanns and their group of friends.

“The reconstruction shows how unlikely it is that any other explanation could be possible.”

The McCanns categorically deny causing the death of their daughter or disposing of her body.

A friend dismissed the latest claims as “more wild speculation”. The friend pointed out that the McCanns did not hire a car until 25 days after Madeleine disappeared.

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