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Kate
and Gerry McCann to be cleared as Portuguese police close Madeleine
investigation
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:21 AM on 01st July 2008
No evidence: Kate and Gerry McCann outside their
house in Rothley, Leicestershire
Kate and Gerry McCann are
set to be cleared of any involvement in the disappearance of
their missing daughter Madeleine.
A police investigation is
expected to conclude that Portuguese detectives have found
no evidence to implicate the couple.
Their daughter was six days
short of her fourth birthday when she vanished from their
holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on 3 May
last year.
According
to sources, the McCanns are now hoping their status as
suspects - or arguidos - will be lifted by next
month at the latest and possibly within a fortnight.
A third
person named as a suspect, British-born Robert Murat, is
also expected to be cleared.
Missing:
Madeleine McCann
disappeared on
May 3 last year
The police
case is now likely to be shelved after a 14-month
inquiry which is said to have been 'inconclusive'.
A source
close to the family said: 'We are assuming arguido
status will be lifted when the case is shelved.
'Kate and
Gerry's lawyers are making inquiries all the time. If
the case is shut without charges being brought, they
cannot be arguidos any more.
'The mood
music we are getting from Portuguese authorities is the
arguido status will be lifted and they will effectively
be cleared.'
The
couple's official spokesman Clarence Mitchell said that
even if the official investigation is closed then the
search for Madeleine will continue.
He said:
'Kate and Gerry's lawyers have not had any of this
information confirmed so we cannot comment in any great
detail.
'However
if this report is true, it is not before time. Kate and
Gerry have suffered enough in this process.
'If they
(Portuguese police) are to clear Gerry and Kate of any
involvement in Madeleine's disappearance, which is right
because they are completely innocent, then we would
hope that they continue to keep looking for a girl who
went missing in their country.'
'If they decide for whatever reason to shelve the
investigation then it is only right that they turn over
the files so our own investigators can continue the
search.'
The
Journal de Noticias, a respected Portuguese-newspaper,
reports today that the police inquiry has failed to
reach any conclusion over what happened to Madeleine.
The
newspaper says a judge overseeing the case is now
expected to archive the investigation without ruling on
Madeleine's fate.
According
to Journal de Noticias, detectives are still unable to
determine whether Madeleine was kidnapped or murdered on
the night she disappeared from the bedroom of her
parents' apartment as they ate at a nearby tapas
restaurant with friends.
A source
close to the case told the newspaper: 'The police
report... is not conclusive nor does it point in any
particular direction - kidnap, murder or the
concealment of Madeleine's body.'
The police
file on the case - likely to stretch to several boxes
- will be made available to the suspects' legal teams
if the investigation is shelved.
The
McCanns, who are understood to be currently enjoying
their first holiday since Madeleine vanished, will want
to turn that information over to their own team of
private investigators
The
McCanns, both doctors, from Rothley in Leicestershire,
still remain hopeful that Madeleine could still be
alive.
Their
Portuguese lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu told Journal de
Noticias he would study the case files 'from the first
to the last page' if the case was archived 'to be in a
position to do what the McCanns always wanted, which is
to assure themselves the investigation was properly
conducted and continue to look for their daughter'.
There
remain concerns in the McCann camp that the couple could
still be charged with abandonment of the child.
Although
the couple's lawyers are privately being reassured that
will not happen, the McCanns fear Portuguese authorities
could bring such an action as a 'face-saving exercise'.