Police urge Kate McCann toward confession deal in Maddy’s death

Published: September 8, 2007, 12:06 am

Scotsman Sep 8, 2007 “[Portuguese detectives] tried to get her to confess to having accidentally killed Madeleine by offering her a deal through her lawyer - ‘if you say you killed Madeleine by accident and then hid her and disposed of the body, then we can guarantee you a two-year jail sentence or even less’.” . . . ‘Did you kill Madeleine,’ police ask missing girl’s mother by FERGUS SHEPPARD PORTUGUESE police urged Kate McCann to confess to her daughter’s killing in exchange for a lenient jail sentence, her relatives claimed last night. Mrs McCann’s aunt said police told her niece that if she admitted accidentally killing Madeleine and hiding and disposing of the body, they would give her no more than a two-year jail sentence. The allegation came during an extraordinary day which saw Mrs McCann accused for the first time by Portuguese police of killing her missing daughter, Madeleine. Mrs McCann’s husband, Gerry, was

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