"Portugal Clears Parents in McCann CaseReutersposted: 2 HOURS 9 MINUTES AGOcomments: 342PrintSharefiled under: Crime News, World NewsText SizeAAALISBON (July 21) - Portugal's chief public prosecutor on Monday dropped the case on the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann pending any new leads and cleared her parents of suspicion of involvement.
The McCann CaseFamily / APProsecutors in Portugal closed their investigation into the disappearance of the British girl Madeleine McCann Monday. The case can be reopened if new evidence emerges. McCann vanished from an apartment in the resort where her family was staying on May 3, 2007.
Prosecutor Fernando Pinto Monteiro said in a statement a third suspect, Robert Murat, a Briton living in Portugal, was also cleared.
"The public prosecutor's office has determined that the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann be archived, due to the lack of evidence of any crime being committed by the suspects," the statement said.
"The case can be reopened by the public prosecutor's office, or following a request from an interested party, if new evidence materializes," it said.
Madeleine disappeared from her bedroom in an Algarve resort on May 3 last year, a few days before her fourth birthday.
The case has grabbed international headlines, especially after police named the parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, as suspects. Police have failed to find the girl or sufficient evidence to charge anybody and presented their final report to the prosecutor on July 1."
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