Letter
During the interview Kate also
vigorously denied she had left
Madeleine crying alone for an
hour the night before she
vanished.
The GP insisted it was Amelie
who had been crying, and only
for a short time.
The couple brought Amelie into
bed with them after being
alerted to her tears by Maddie.
In the newly released letter
written by a frantic Kate, she
begs Portuguese police to join
forces with them in the hunt for
missing Maddie and end the "war"
raging between them.
Kate, 40, wrote to chief
investigator Paulo Rebelo
shortly after he replaced
disgraced former head Goncalo
Amaral telling him 'Madeleine is
the most beautiful thing in our
lives.'
The letter is dated December 4
last year and is included in the
17 volumes of case files made
public earlier this week.
She described the 'difficult,
sad and unbearable times' she
and husband Gerry were going
through since being made formal
suspects.
She told him she was suffering a
pain that was 'impossible to
describe' and felt 'impotent' in
the face of accusations and
'libels' in the press.
Kate pleaded to be told of the
investigation's progress, while
recognising the restrictions
imposed on Mr Rebelo by
Portugal's strict secrecy laws.
She was desperate to end the
'war' between the Portuguese
Judicial Police on one side, and
the McCanns and the British
police on the other.
The important thing was to be
reunited in the hunt for
Madeleine's abductor, she said.
But no response from Mr Rebelo
is recorded, reports claim.
Mr Rebelo replaced Goncalo
Amaral, 48, as the chief
investigator in October last
year.
Amaral
was thrown off the case for
criticising British police,
claiming they were working too
closely with Gerry and Kate
McCann.
In another revelation from the
case files, prosecutors said the
McCanns had lost the chance to
prove their innocence when they
and their holiday friends
refused to take part in a
reconstruction of the night of
May 3 last year.
They said the investigation 'was
undermined' by the failure to
carry out a reconstruction
'which could have removed any
doubts about the parents'
innocence,' according to a
document revealed in newspaper
Jornal de Noticias.
Paulo Rebelo wanted to carry out
the reconstruction in March.