Madeleine McCann

THE girlfriend of Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat was yesterday accused of handing over the youngster to a man two days after she disappeared.... Metodo 3, the detective agency hired by parents Gerry and Kate to find their daughter, found a witness who had seen the exchange in central Portugal on May 5.... The witness is sure the child being put into a car was Maddie.... Although Metodo 3 has not named the woman, a source close to the detective agency claimed last night that she is German divorcee Michaela Walczuch, 34. .... She was yesterday unavailable for comment at her flat in Lagos, a few miles from where Maddie went missing in Praia da Luz.... A source said last night: “This new evidence has not come from the McCanns, but from the agency they hired last month.".... “A new witness, whose name has not been released, identified Michaela as the woman they saw handing a child to another man in central Portugal on May 5.... “They believe a man and a woman are involved in Maddie’s abduction, and that there was a vehicle involved.�?....Talking about four-year-old Maddie, Metodo 3 boss Francisco Marco told American channel CBS: “We are 100 per cent sure she is alive. We know the kidnapper. We know who he is and we know how he has done it.�?... Mr Marco said he has handed the information to cops....Murat, 33, was dating mum-of-one Walczuch while she was still living in her marital home with Portuguese hubby Luis Antonio The trio even shared the flat for six months....The affair was blamed for the breakdown of Murat’s 11-year marriage to wife Dawn, 41....She returned to the UK with their daughter Sofia, four, when she discovered Murat was cheating on her.... Undercover cops kept the love triangle trio under surveillance for a week before taking them for questioning on May 14.... That was the day Murat was named as a suspect, or arguido....Walczuch and pool-cleaner Antonio, 47, were quizzed a second time on May 24, but later released without charge....The McCanns are paying for Metodo 3 �?which boasts a 100 per cent success rate �?through donations by benefactors....But Murat’s mother Jenny insists her son is totally innocent....The 71-year-old told a Panorama special, to be screened on BBC1 tonight, that he was with her throughout the evening of May 3. ....She accused pals of the McCanns �?who claim they saw him that night �?of lying....The programme also reveals how Kate reacted in fury when cops told her she would escape with only two years in jail if she admitted manslaughter.... She repeatedly screamed: “No.�?.... Kate and Gerry, both 39, attended mass near their home in Rothley, Leics. yesterday.

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