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Car DNA was McCann Twins'
Genetic match ... lost Maddie with twins, their faces obscured
Genetic match ... lost Maddie with twins, their faces obscured

NAPPIES worn by Kate and Gerry McCann’s twins could clear the parents of any suspicion over lost daughter Madeleine, it was revealed last night.

A source close to the couple told how Sean and Amelie’s soiled nappies were hurriedly packed into the McCanns’ hire car when they switched apartments in Portugal.

The parents of Madeleine McCann are entirely

innocent, a family spokesman has declared

DNA from the two-year-olds and the paraphernalia used to change them could have been left in the Renault Scenic’s boot ? and would have been almost identical to Maddie’s.

The revelation came as Kate and Gerry gave their first interview since returning to Britain. And it could smash the case against them mounted by Portuguese cops, who believe they used the car to dump Maddie’s body.

Latest reports suggest that new DNA tests are being carried out in Britain.

The tests are looking for traces of her DNA from material gathered around Praia da Luz, including alleged blood samples found in an apartment close to the one from where she disappeared on May 3.

Results of the tests taking place at the Forensic Science Service Laboratory in Birmingham could be sent to Portugal within days.

Contaminated ... hire car
Contaminated ... hire car

Three Portuguese detectives reportedly arrived in Britain yesterday. They are set to ask Leicestershire police to further quiz the McCanns on their behalf.

The source disclosed Maddie’s sandals and an unwashed pair of her pyjamas were also “chucked” into the hire car when the couple moved in Praia da Luz in mid June.

And at least 30 people, including relatives, used the Renault before cops searched it. The McCanns were suspected after tests showed traces of Maddie’s DNA in the car. But the source said: “It’s clear multiple sources could have contaminated it.”

  • Solicitors for the McCanns are to have talks about controversial DNA testing with the lawyers of a man accused of the Omagh bomb atrocity.

Belfast lawyer Kevin Winters said the meeting with solicitors Kingsley Napley would take place in the city next week.

A controversial forensic test known as Low Copy Number (LCN) DNA is at the centre of the marathon Omagh bomb trial in which a man from south Armagh has denied murdering 29 people who were killed in a no-warning bomb attack on the Tyrone town in August 1998.

The judge in the case, which finished last January, has yet to deliver his verdict.

LCN DNA is a highly sensitive testing procedure which magnifies potential forensic evidence that cannot be identified by traditional DNA.

Opponents argued that LCN DNA tests are unreliable because the magnification process leaves it open to potential distortion.

Mr Winters confirmed today that the McCann legal team has contacted his firm and a meeting with one of his staff, Peter Corrigan, the instructing solicitor in the Omagh defence team, has been scheduled for Belfast next week.

He said: “I can confirm that we were approached to assist them in the specific area of DNA. The Omagh case was the first time that LCN DNA has been fully challenged in detail in an open court. It’s a central allegation in the McCann case.”



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