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Police chief accuses Madeleine McCann's parents of hindering inquiry

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX NEWS OCTOBER 2007
Original Source:   TELEGRAPH: 02 OCTOBER 2007
By Aislinn Simpson in Praia da Luz
Last Updated: 2:31am BST 02/10/200
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The head of Portugal's police federation has launched an astonishing attack on Gerry and Kate McCann, accusing them of "hindering" the investigation into their daughter's disappearance.

The attack came amid claims that strands of hair that could be Madeleine's had been found behind a sofa in the family's apartment at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz.

The hair is being examined, along with blood samples found on a wall in the apartment, by the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham for any traces which could prove whether the missing four-year-old was drugged.

One of the theories apparently being examined by police is that Madeleine died after being sedated by her parents, both 39-year-old doctors from Rothley, Leics.

Police supposedly believe they may then have covered up the death by hiding the body and moving it weeks later in their Renault hire car.

The hair sample was found close to where English sniffer dogs reportedly detected blood and the "scent of death" in the apartment, and police believe it may be "decisive", according to the Portuguese newspaper Journal de Noticias.

The latest attack on the couple came from Carlos Anjos, the head of the federation of criminal police, which represents officers from the Policia Judiciaria investigating the case.

Mr Anjos added to the growing tension between the McCanns and the Portuguese authorities, accusing them of using "diversion tactics" to distract from the investigation and deliberately "hindering" the inquiry.

"Since their daughter disappeared, Gerry and Kate have followed a strategy of almost daily announcements of new facts," he told the Diario de Noticias. He claimed these "facts" were hindering the investigation.

He was also critical of what he called the "ridiculous episode" in which Mr McCann feared he was in the same room as his daughter's abductor when he checked on his three children on the evening of May 3, shortly before Madeleine's disappearance.

Mr McCann had told a friend how he thought little at the time of a door that was ajar - which he had previously believed closed - but said he had since begun to realise his daughter's abductor could have been hiding there.

Mr Anjos, who has also been involved in the case, said: "If he was suspicious that there was a man in the apartment, and then he calmly went to dinner, then words cannot describe how negligent he is as a father."

Clarence Mitchell, the family's spokesman, said Mr McCann's realisation that he had been in the same room as the abductor only came to him later and the comments had been "totally misunderstood" by Mr Anjos.

"This was said in the original witness statement," Mr Mitchell said. "There is nothing that has come out recently that should be of surprise to the officers."

He added that the suggestion the couple were seeking to hinder the case was "completely untrue".

"I would suggest the same goes for the sources in Portugal - but far more so," he said. "There is no deliberate campaign to get in the way of the police investigation. This has been done in a spirit of co-operation."

Meanwhile, Mr McCann's mother, Eileen, dismissed claims about the DNA allegedly found in the couple's hire car, telling the Belfast Telegraph: "Little Amelie is wearing Madeleine's sandals and she is in and out of the car. Cuddly toys are in it. It's nonsense."

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