- Detectives knew there was no conclusive evidence against the McCanns three days before they interviewed them and made them suspects.
- Mrs McCann refused to answer 48 questions when quizzed by police in September after she and her husband became formal suspects
- Mrs McCann wrote a letter begging for an end to the "war" that had developed between the family and investigators.
-The Metropolitan Police passed on a tip-off from an informant suggesting Madeleine may have been kidnapped to order by a Belgian paedophile ring.
- A Briton contacted police after seeing a child, whom he said resembled Madeleine, asleep on a train from Brussels to Antwerp, saying she looked like she could have been drugged. She was accompanied by a balding 6ft white man aged about 40.
- Madeleine could have been abducted by a stranger, seen by both a British holidaymaker and a British expat, loitering around the family's holiday resort at the time. Pictures of the stranger and descriptions were not circulated by police.
- In early May last year, Anna Stam, a 41-year-old assistant from an Amsterdam fancy dress shop, said she had spoken to a little girl called "Maddy", who said she had been taken from her mother while on holiday.
-The apartment at the Ocean Club resort from which Madeleine vanished was used by holiday-makers for nearly two months before police sealed it off as a permanent crime scene.
- During the early stages of the search, Portuguese police wanted to bug Mr McCann and his wife Kate, in order to eavesdrop on their conversations. However a judge refused the request.
- British consular officials in Guatemala were forced to apologise to a leading local lawyer after they stopped his daughter in the street, thinking she was Madeleine.
from:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/2564721/Madeleine-files-the-key-disclosures.html
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