Bid to clear McCanns after DNA trip

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Four members of the Portuguese investigation team are due to fly home from the UK on Friday after a meeting with British forensic experts to discuss DNA samples collected for the inquiry into the missing four-year-old.

Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell told reporters: "Enough is enough. There can be nothing that incriminates Kate and Gerry because they are innocent. We are hopeful this meeting will help speed up the process eliminating Kate and Gerry from the inquiry.

"They just want the injustice of being suspects to end and the real job of finding Madeleine to resume in earnest.

"We hope that following this meeting the Portuguese prosecutor will let common sense prevail and will lift their arguido status.

"Forensic evidence, if there is any, is inconclusive or explicable, so they should be eliminated from the inquiry."

The Portuguese team met five experts from the FSS to consider DNA results from tests the organisation has been conducting on behalf of the authorities in Portugal over the last four months.

The tests are said to have been carried out on blood samples, bodily fluids and hair found in the McCanns' holiday apartment and the vehicle they hired 25 days after the four-year-old disappeared.

Both Leicestershire Police, who are helping their Portuguese counterparts, and the Birmingham-based Forensic Science Service described it as "routine".