McCanns facing new police quiz

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Kate McCann will attend the police station in Portimao in the Algarve, accompanied by her lawyer, Carlos Pinto de Abreu.

Her husband Gerry will be questioned by detectives separately at the same police station.

Portuguese police called Mr McCann on Monday to request the interviews, specifying that Mrs McCann should be questioned first. It is only the second time she has been formally interviewed by the police, the first being on May 4, the day after Madeleine went missing.

Detectives have already questioned her husband twice.

It is expected that Mrs McCann's interview will be longer than the three to four hour one she gave officers in May.

It is now 126 days since four-year-old Madeleine went missing from her bed in her family's holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz while her parents dined in a nearby tapas restaurant.

The McCanns have so far remained in Portugal with their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie to help with the search for their daughter.

The development comes amid reports that arrests could be imminent following a forensic breakthrough. A source said information from the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham, which is testing samples taken from the McCann holiday flat, had been returned to Portuguese investigators.

Portuguese police have so far given the McCanns no briefing on the forensic results, and did not say they would be returned this week when they contacted Mr McCann on Monday. The official line remains that the tests are still ongoing.