Murat 'not worried about interview'

Paulo Rebelo, who heads the police inquiry, ordered a fresh interrogation of the Briton after his first inspection of the Portuguese holiday apartment from where the little girl went missing, said the Evening Standard.

But Mr Murat, 33, has not spoken to police for nearly three months and was not concerned about today's report, said family friend and spokesman Tuck Price.

Mr Murat, whose villa is just yards from the spot where Madeleine was abducted on May 3, strenuously denies any involvement in the four-year-old's disappearance. He was made an official suspect in the case 10 days after the Leicestershire youngster went missing.

Mr Rebelo, recently appointed new head of the investigation, is said to have examined windows at the McCanns' former holiday apartment in Praia da Luz and paced out all possible escape routes during his inspection of the property. He is also reported to have walked the 100 yards to the villa Mr Murat shares with his mother.

Mr Murat is one of three formal suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation along with the child's parents, Gerry and Kate.

The report of his re-interview came as the McCanns were forced to answer questions in the media about the use of the fighting fund set up to find their daughter. Their spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, confirmed that money had been used to help meet mortgage costs on their detached property in Rothley.

Meanwhile it was reported that private investigators searching for Madeleine, who went missing from the Algarve on May 3, had found a blonde girl who had been kidnapped by a Moroccan family.

Mr McCann, 39, will return to work as a consultant cardiologist at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital on Thursday. He and his wife, who is a GP and also 39, have been on unpaid leave from their jobs since Madeleine disappeared.

The couple will mark another grim milestone since Madeleine's disappearance at a church service this weekend. On Saturday it will be six months since the young girl, then aged three, vanished from her bed in the family's holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz.