New forensic tests have left “no doubt” that body fluid found in the back of Kate and Gerry McCann‘s hire car came from their missing daughter Madeleine, says Portugese newspaper Correlo da Manha.
Another trace of the four-year-old’s blood was found in the family’s holiday apartment, according to the newspaper.
The McCann’s leased the car 25 days after Madeleine’s disappearance on May 3, 2007 from Praia da Luz, Portugal.
The findings support a police theory that Madeleine died accidentally in the apartment, prompting her parents to hide her body then transport it in the spare tyre well of their hire car several weeks later.
The test results come from low-copy DNA analysis, a controversial new technique which is seen as unreliable by UK police, although Portugese newspapers are reporting the findings as “definitive”.
Because of the unreliability of the results, it’s unlikely they will ever be used as evidence in court.
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