Madeleine probe file to stay secret

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It is understood the dossier could have been published under new Portuguese secrecy laws that can see court files reopened eight months after the start of an inquiry.

Madeleine vanished from her family's Praia da Luz holiday apartment on May 3 last year.

But lawyers acting on behalf of the formal suspects in the investigation - the girl's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, and British expat Robert Murat - said the court file would not be made public.

It is understood prosecutors need more time to make their case.

The publication of such a document can coincide with decisions on whether to prosecute suspects in an investigation, and the legal milestone produced fresh speculation about the inquiry.

According to Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, detectives in the Algarve produced an interim report to coincide with the eight-month mark.

The report is said to name Mr and Mrs McCann, from Leicestershire, as prime suspects in their daughter's disappearance. But it is also said to include the possibility Madeleine, aged three at the time, was abducted.

The report was dismissed by the McCanns' advisers as "pure speculation".

Edward Smethurst, the lawyer conducting the McCanns' defence, said: "We have received no information to suggest that the court file is going to be opened and indeed we believe it's likely that it will be some time before the court file is made available."