Madeleine McCann Disappearance - Kate McCann Questioned

The news came after it was revealed by police that forensic examination had discovered traces of Madeleine's blood in a vehicle hired by the McCanns 25 days after the girl's mysterious disappearance in the resort village of Praia da Luz in Portugal. It was previously reported in August that spots of blood had also been found in the apartment where Madeleine was last seen.

Kate McCann arrived at the Police station in Portimao on Friday the 7th of September and was questioned for over five hours by Portuguese police in relation to the daughter's mysterious disappearance. She emerged looking strained. Her husband Gerry was later questioned at the station as a witness

Madeleine McCann was reported missing by her parents when they returned to their holiday apartment in the Ocean Club resort at 10 p.m. on May the third, just nine days short of Madeleine's fourth birthday. The parents had been dining at a Tapas bar just 100 yards from the apartment with friends and all had taken in turns in checking on the group's children, who were sleeping in the apartments. Madeleine's younger twin siblings were still asleep in the apartment. The McCanns are both English doctors and were holidaying with friends at the resort.

According to Kate McCann, her husband Gerry had last checked on the children at 9 p.m. and when they returned at 10 p.m. they found her bed empty and a window open.

Reports at the time by one of the other women in the group were of a man seen walking quickly from the resort carrying what looked like a white child wrapped in a blanket.