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Thursday 6 September 2007

They're trying to frame me, says mother after nine-hour police interview

Sky News Headline; says: 'The mother of Madeleine McCann was dramatically reinterviewed by police yesterday - and is terrified they are trying to frame her. Late last night Kate McCann was still being questioned at police headquarters in Portimao, 30 miles from Praia da Luz. It is the first time she has been formally interviewed since May 4, the day after her daughter vanished from her bed in the Mark Warner holiday complex.

Mrs McCann, 39, had a lawyer present, something that has not happened in any previous meetings with the Portuguese police. Friends said she was extremely nervous about being "set up" and fears detectives were attempting to crack the case by pinning the blame for Madeleine's disappearance on her.

A Portuguese newspaper stoked her fears yesterday with hurtful slurs about a "scent of death" allegedly detected on her clothing.

Although police made clear the McCanns are witnesses and not suspects, it is understood that inquiries are concentrating on alleged discrepancies in their accounts of the night Madeleine disappeared.