Police came within an inch of jailing Kate McCann over her daughter's disappearance, a new book has sensationally claimed. Detectives questioning the mother allegedly wanted to charge her with "homicide with eventual intent" - a crime that allows a suspect to be remanded in custody until their trial.
But the night before she was interrogated for the second day, the public prosecutor in the case advised the detective then in charge - Goncalo Amaral - that they did not have enough evidence, it was claimed. The revelation comes as one of Portugal's top crime reporters states that if the McCanns were Portuguese they would be in jail by now.
Hernani Carvalho suggested that the couple, who are suspects in their daughter's disappearance, only escaped custody as they were given privileged treatment because they are British. He said: "Many people are up in arms with the privileged treatment that was given to the McCann couple. If they were Portuguese they would have been in jail by now." (Daily Mail)
