Kate and Gerry McCann and family will be praying today, Saturday, for Madeleine's safe return. I'm asking Christians everywhere to join them in spending a few minutes in prayer for Maddy and her family.
A SUSPECT in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was questioned about a string of sex assaults linked to the youngster's disappearance before he died, his widow said last night.
Euclides Monteiro's wife Luisa Rodrigues said Portuguese police probing Madeleine's abduction questioned the convicted burglar the year after she vanished about a spate of sex attacks at Algarve holiday villas.
She claimed DNA tests had put the recovering heroin addict - a former worker at the Ocean Club holiday complex Madeleine vanished from seven years ago today - in the clear.
And she insisted detectives leading the hunt for Madeleine never asked Cape Verde-born Monteiro, who died in a 2009 tractor accident, about the missing child.
The revelation, pointing to an apparent failure by Portuguese detectives to link the breaks-ins to Madeleine's abduction early on, will raise fresh concern about the original police probe which led to her parents Gerry and Kate being made suspects.
It also raises questions about why Portuguese police heading a cold case review decided to question Monteiro's widow last year after making a link between Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance and the sex attacks his widow says he proved five years earlier he had nothing to do with.
British police heading a separate probe into Madeleine's disappearance are trying to identify a serial sex attacker who may have struck at least 18 times in Algarve holiday resorts, starting in 2004.
They have described the intruder as "smelly and pot-bellied", wearing a burgundy top with a distinctive white circle on the back - but never pointed the finger at Monteiro.
Ms Rodrigues' claims that Portuguese detectives believed the Algarve sex assaults were the work of one man as far back as 2008 will also lead to questions about why they were only made public recently.
Euclides' widow, who never spoke about her late partner's 2008 police quiz when she admitted earlier this year two Portuguese women detectives had questioned her last October, broke her silence on Portuguese state broadcaster RTP, Insisting he had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance and went straight after finishing a five-year prison sentence in 1999.
She told the TV station: "Euclides was summonsed to the police station in Portimao, the same one heading the Madeleine McCann investigation, in 2008.
"He was told they were looking for a tall black man who had broken into country homes and sexually assaulted children inside.
"He didn't commit a single crime after he left prison.
"He denied any involvement in the indecent assaults. Police did DNA tests at the time and ruled him out as a suspect and apologised for troubling him.
"They never mentioned Madeleine McCann. Until the day he died the police never contacted him again."
Luisa also gave her late husband an alibi over Madeleine - by producing a poem she said he had written on his computer around the time she vanished.
She said computer records showed he wrote at 9pm on May 3 2007 - an hour before Kate McCann discovered Madeleine missing.
She added: "I know Euclides had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance. It's impossible he had a double life. I knew everything about him."
Porto-based Policia Judiciaria officers heading a review into the Algarve-led Madeleine McCann investigation began to suspect Monteiro after pinpointing him to the area where the British youngster disappeared from by his mobile phone.
Kate McCann, 46, made a veiled attack on the Portuguese police ahead of the seventh anniversary of her daughter's disappearance today.
British police have to send time-consuming international 'Letters of Request' to Portugal every time they want something done.
Met Police said recently they were confident of being able to start "operational activity" in Portugal soon but their hopes have so far failed to materialise and their desire for a joint investigation has also been rejected.
Kate said: "The passing of further weeks and months as a result of unnecessary delays and barriers are not only frustrating, they are distressing.
"Each day without Madeline and each day of not knowing is another day too many."
Kate McCann is often still “paralysed” by sadness over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, who vanished seven years ago today.
The sad milestone will be marked by Kate, husband Gerry and close family praying for the girl’s return.
Kate, 46, said: “Our situation seems as unbelievable as it did that very first night without Madeleine.
“Whenever I find myself becoming paralysed with disbelief, unease, frustration or sadness, I have to refocus my mind on the positives.”
Unfortunately, there are not many positives mostly because of the intransigence of the Portuguese - their unwillingness to cooperate with Scotland Yard.
Let's join the McCanns today in praying for Madeleine's safe return or at least a breakthrough in this horribly frustrating search.
A SUSPECT in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was questioned about a string of sex assaults linked to the youngster's disappearance before he died, his widow said last night.
Euclides Monteiro's wife Luisa Rodrigues said Portuguese police probing Madeleine's abduction questioned the convicted burglar the year after she vanished about a spate of sex attacks at Algarve holiday villas.
She claimed DNA tests had put the recovering heroin addict - a former worker at the Ocean Club holiday complex Madeleine vanished from seven years ago today - in the clear.
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| Euclides Monteiro |
And she insisted detectives leading the hunt for Madeleine never asked Cape Verde-born Monteiro, who died in a 2009 tractor accident, about the missing child.
The revelation, pointing to an apparent failure by Portuguese detectives to link the breaks-ins to Madeleine's abduction early on, will raise fresh concern about the original police probe which led to her parents Gerry and Kate being made suspects.
It also raises questions about why Portuguese police heading a cold case review decided to question Monteiro's widow last year after making a link between Madeleine McCann's 2007 disappearance and the sex attacks his widow says he proved five years earlier he had nothing to do with.
British police heading a separate probe into Madeleine's disappearance are trying to identify a serial sex attacker who may have struck at least 18 times in Algarve holiday resorts, starting in 2004.
They have described the intruder as "smelly and pot-bellied", wearing a burgundy top with a distinctive white circle on the back - but never pointed the finger at Monteiro.
Ms Rodrigues' claims that Portuguese detectives believed the Algarve sex assaults were the work of one man as far back as 2008 will also lead to questions about why they were only made public recently.
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| Luisa Rodrigues |
She told the TV station: "Euclides was summonsed to the police station in Portimao, the same one heading the Madeleine McCann investigation, in 2008.
"He was told they were looking for a tall black man who had broken into country homes and sexually assaulted children inside.
"He didn't commit a single crime after he left prison.
"He denied any involvement in the indecent assaults. Police did DNA tests at the time and ruled him out as a suspect and apologised for troubling him.
"They never mentioned Madeleine McCann. Until the day he died the police never contacted him again."
Luisa also gave her late husband an alibi over Madeleine - by producing a poem she said he had written on his computer around the time she vanished.
She said computer records showed he wrote at 9pm on May 3 2007 - an hour before Kate McCann discovered Madeleine missing.
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| Maddy at 3 and her possible appearance now |
Porto-based Policia Judiciaria officers heading a review into the Algarve-led Madeleine McCann investigation began to suspect Monteiro after pinpointing him to the area where the British youngster disappeared from by his mobile phone.
Kate McCann, 46, made a veiled attack on the Portuguese police ahead of the seventh anniversary of her daughter's disappearance today.
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| Kate McCann and Maddy |
Met Police said recently they were confident of being able to start "operational activity" in Portugal soon but their hopes have so far failed to materialise and their desire for a joint investigation has also been rejected.
Kate said: "The passing of further weeks and months as a result of unnecessary delays and barriers are not only frustrating, they are distressing.
"Each day without Madeline and each day of not knowing is another day too many."
Kate McCann is often still “paralysed” by sadness over the disappearance of her daughter Madeleine, who vanished seven years ago today.
The sad milestone will be marked by Kate, husband Gerry and close family praying for the girl’s return.
Kate, 46, said: “Our situation seems as unbelievable as it did that very first night without Madeleine.
“Whenever I find myself becoming paralysed with disbelief, unease, frustration or sadness, I have to refocus my mind on the positives.”
Unfortunately, there are not many positives mostly because of the intransigence of the Portuguese - their unwillingness to cooperate with Scotland Yard.
Let's join the McCanns today in praying for Madeleine's safe return or at least a breakthrough in this horribly frustrating search.
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