Madeleine: Four witnesses say they saw suspect pictured in new poster campaign

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Portuguese police have dismissed the portrait of the long-haired man as "a diversion tactic" by Kate and Gerry McCann.

But four witnesses may have seen the unidentified man - first on the night the three-year-old went missing, then later with named suspect Robert Murat, and finally in Morocco.

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Suspect: Gail Cooper says she saw the man hanging around the complex three times before Madeleine was taken

Jane Tanner, who told police she saw a man carrying a child away from the McCanns' apartment, said she was "80 per cent sure" he was the one depicted in the artist's impression.

Isabel Gonzalez, who said she saw Madeleine with a Berber woman in Morocco, said the sketch looked "very similar" to a man she saw immediately after the sighting.

Amanda Mills, 34, from Basildon, Essex, claimed to have spotted a man trying to break into a bedroom window at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz a week before Madeleine disappeared from the complex.

Last night she said there are "strong similarities" between the man she saw and the new sketch.

Nanny Charlotte Pennington's description of a person she saw with Mr Murat also matches the man shown in the artist's impression.

The sketch - released on Sunday - is based on a description given by British tourist Gail Cooper, 50.

She saw the man lurking around Praia da Luz three times in the days before Madeleine went missing last May 3.

An FBI-trained forensic artist sketched her description and a million posters of it are now being distributed around Portugal, Spain and North Africa.