?KATE and Gerry McCann are flying home today after deciding to quit Portugal following hours of police questioning and being named as
suspects over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.?? Their decision late yesterday to return to their Leicestershire home came after Portuguese police tr
ied to pressure Kate McCann into admitting killing Madeleine by repeatedly showing her video footage of sniffer dogs allegedly finding the scent of a body in the family?s hire car. They will fly into East Midlands airport this lunchtime. ?They are leaving with the full agreement of the Portuguese authorities and police,? said a family spokesman.
During 16 hours of interrogation Kate was shown? the Renault Sc?nic car in the hope that she would break down and confess. She was yesterday said to be distraught and exhausted by the ordeal.? The dogs? reaction was a key reason why the police suspect her of killing Madeleine. Officers told Kate they had found her daughter?s DNA in the car even though it was hired three weeks after her disappearance.
Kate and her husband are said to be mortified that the investigation team ? with whom they have co-operated throughout ? have apparently turned against them. ?We are being absolutely stitched up,? Gerry told a friend. ?We are completely f*****. We should have seen this coming weeks ago and gone back to Britain.?
Police hoped to force a confession from Kate after she was formally declared a suspect on Friday and subjected to further questioning. Jon Corner, a friend of the family, said: ?They kept coming back to the hire car and kept showing Kate the video of sniffer dogs. They also told her that Madeleine?s DNA was found in the car.??? Source
