Maddie bedroom is revealed - Sun 4/08/2008

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Maddie bedroom is revealed


bedroom which Maddie McCann vanished from was revealed today.

Thousands of police files into the disappearance of Maddie were made public tonight - including photos of the McCanns' Portugal apartment.

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New Madeleine Pictures Released



In one photo Maddie's favourite toy - cuddle cat - can be seen on the bed she was sleeping in before she went missing.

Evidence ... released tonight
Evidence ... released tonight

The police files from the exhaustive inquiry, which lasted more than 14 months, are being made available to journalists after the shelving of the case a fortnight ago.

Included in the mammoth dossier - said to run to 20,000 pages - are witness statements, transcripts of interviews with the McCanns and details of the lines of inquiry detectives pursued.

Escape ... open window where kidnapper could have fled with Maddie
Escape ... open window where
kidnapper could have fled with Maddie

Maddie vanished in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday.

The files were released today under Portuguese law after the lifting of the period of judicial secrecy in the case.

The official files also revealed that a British scientist warned DNA tests on a sample from the McCanns’ hire car were inconclusive - just days before the couple were made suspects.

In an email dated September 3 2007 John Lowe, from the major incidents team at the Birmingham-based Forensic Science Service (FSS), said it was impossible to conclude whether the material came from Maddie.

Four days later Portuguese detectives named the McCanns “arguidos”, or formal suspects - citing DNA evidence as grounds for their suspicions.

Officials from the public prosecutor’s office in the Algarve town of Portimao have copied the documents onto DVDs for reporters who have requested them.

Yesterday it was revealed Kate McCann refused to answer 48 questions when probed by Portuguese cops over her missing daughter Madeleine.

Two weeks ago Kate and her husband Gerry, both 40, of Rothley, Leics, were officially cleared of any involvement in Maddie’s disappearance.

McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said last night: “Kate was well within her rights not to answer if she didn’t want to.”

Lawyers for the McCanns were formally given access to the files last week.

They are studying the dossier for fresh leads that the couple’s private detectives can follow up in their own search for their daughter.