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| Kate and Gerry McCann were declared suspects in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance because of the work of sniffer dogs, a police report says. | Kate and Gerry McCann were declared suspects in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance because of the work of sniffer dogs, a police report says. |
| The BBC has seen the final Portuguese police report into her disappearance, the day after the case was shelved. | The BBC has seen the final Portuguese police report into her disappearance, the day after the case was shelved. |
| The report says police were "obliged" to make Mrs McCann, of Rothley, Leics, a suspect on the "merest possibility she had been in contact with a corpse". | The report says police were "obliged" to make Mrs McCann, of Rothley, Leics, a suspect on the "merest possibility she had been in contact with a corpse". |
| The couple are no longer formal suspects in the case. | |
| The report for prosecutors says it was the reactions of the British-based sniffer dogs, one trained to find human blood, the other the presence of a corpse, which led to police declaring the couple as formal suspects last September. | The report for prosecutors says it was the reactions of the British-based sniffer dogs, one trained to find human blood, the other the presence of a corpse, which led to police declaring the couple as formal suspects last September. |
| Samples analysed | |
| The dogs had reacted at various points in the McCanns' holiday apartment, in a car they hired several weeks after her disappearance and on two items of Kate McCann's clothing. | The dogs had reacted at various points in the McCanns' holiday apartment, in a car they hired several weeks after her disappearance and on two items of Kate McCann's clothing. |
| An initial report from a British-based lab which analysed samples from these sites said they contained Madeleine's DNA. This was later revised. | |
| Regarding Robert Murat, the first arguido in the case, suspicions initially arose when a British journalist reported him acting strangely. | |
| The McCann family spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Gerry and Kate's lawyers in Portugal will be applying formally for access to the complete file and they will be analysing everything in it in their own time." | |
| Madeleine disappeared in Praia da Luz on 3 May 2007, aged three. |