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QUIZ COPS FLY HOME EARLY
12/04/2008

Portuguese police quizzing the Tapas Seven flew home yesterday - a day early.

Paulo Rebelo and his three-man team left before the last two friends who were dining with the McCanns the night Madeleine vanished were interviewed.

Dr David Payne and his mother-in-law Dianne Webster were questioned as planned by Leicestershire detectives but the Portuguese team had already left for the airport.

They had been due to oversee all seven interviews and had rooms at the Ramada Jarvis hotel in Leicester booked until today and seats reserved on easy Jet flights to Faro from East Midlands airport. They were reported to be heading back for an immediate meeting with prosecutor Jose Magalhaese Menezes in Portimao.

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It came after the leaking of Kate McCann's statements to police in Praia da Luz immediately after Madeleine's disappearance.

The couple's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Perhaps he is angry about the leaks from his department and has gone to crack a few skulls.

"We were told when he took over the inquiry last year that one of his tasks was to stop the leaks from his department. It is interesting that two major leaks have occurred this week while he was out of the country."