According to Portuguese sources, a convicted burglar and a young beggar contacted each other at the time Madeleine was seen leaving a children’s play club.
Police claim they then exchanged three phone calls later that evening coinciding with her mother and family friends leaving a restaurant where they were dining to check on her in the apartment where she was sleeping.
The timing of the phone calls could show that the pair were monitoring the McCanns ready to burgle their flat.
It would also support the widely held theory that the three-year-old was killed during a botched break-in and her body removed and buried.
Police believe the burglar, who worked at the Ocean Club apartment complex in Praia da Luz where the McCanns were staying, also spoke by phone with a heroin addict a day before the disappearance.
The three men have faced a barrage of questions over their texts and phone calls from Portuguese police guided by their British counterparts.
Detectives also grilled a fourth man – a local computer expert – about a sofa he dumped which was later discovered to have DNA on it similar to that found in the McCanns’ apartment. The Scotland Yard team will not reveal what new information they have gained from the interrogations.
They are now speaking with eight potential witnesses who worked at the Ocean Club at the time.
The Met team have until tomorrow to carry out their work but further searches in Praia da Luz have not been ruled out.
Details of the evidence which led detectives to the four suspects emerged during the second phase of Operation Grange – Scotland Yard’s £6million re-investigation of Madeleine’s disappearance in 2007.
Earlier this week, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood and five detectives arrived to begin questioning the four suspects aged between 23 and 51.
Sniffer dogs loaned to Scotland Yard by South Wales Police yesterday went over cars belonging to two of the men. Officers asked for DNA samples and fingerprints from the four suspects but their request was refused as it is illegal under local law.
Although British police were not allowed to quiz the four men directly, they provided a list of 250 questions to be put to them.
Kate McCann, 46, a former GP, and Gerry, 45, a heart specialist, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have never given up hope that their daughter is alive.
Police claim they then exchanged three phone calls later that evening coinciding with her mother and family friends leaving a restaurant where they were dining to check on her in the apartment where she was sleeping.
The timing of the phone calls could show that the pair were monitoring the McCanns ready to burgle their flat.
It would also support the widely held theory that the three-year-old was killed during a botched break-in and her body removed and buried.
Police believe the burglar, who worked at the Ocean Club apartment complex in Praia da Luz where the McCanns were staying, also spoke by phone with a heroin addict a day before the disappearance.
The three men have faced a barrage of questions over their texts and phone calls from Portuguese police guided by their British counterparts.
Detectives also grilled a fourth man – a local computer expert – about a sofa he dumped which was later discovered to have DNA on it similar to that found in the McCanns’ apartment. The Scotland Yard team will not reveal what new information they have gained from the interrogations.
They are now speaking with eight potential witnesses who worked at the Ocean Club at the time.
The Met team have until tomorrow to carry out their work but further searches in Praia da Luz have not been ruled out.
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Earlier this week, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood and five detectives arrived to begin questioning the four suspects aged between 23 and 51.
Sniffer dogs loaned to Scotland Yard by South Wales Police yesterday went over cars belonging to two of the men. Officers asked for DNA samples and fingerprints from the four suspects but their request was refused as it is illegal under local law.
Although British police were not allowed to quiz the four men directly, they provided a list of 250 questions to be put to them.
Kate McCann, 46, a former GP, and Gerry, 45, a heart specialist, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have never given up hope that their daughter is alive.
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