British police in Portugal as Maddie case 'closes'.BRITISH police have travelled to Portugal Portugal (pôr`chəgəl), officially Portuguese Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 10,566,000), 35,553 sq mi (92,082 sq km), SW Europe, on the western side of the Iberian Peninsula and including the Madeira Islands and the Azores in the to meet the public prosecutor prosecutor Government attorney who presents the state's case against the defendant in a criminal prosecution. In some countries (France, Japan), public prosecution is carried out by a single office. In the U.S., states and counties have their own prosecutors. in the Madeleine Madeleine (măd`əlĭn, Fr. mädlĕn`) [Fr.,=Magdalen, i.e., Mary Magdalen], large church of Paris, in the Place de la Madeleine. It was originally planned by J. A. McCann case as the inquiry apparently draws to a close. Leicestershire Police confirmed that officers held discussions about how evidence would be disclosed at the end of the investigation into the young girl's disappearance. The move came amid mounting speculation that Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, will be officially cleared of involvement in their daughter's death next week. A Portuguese newspaper reported yesterday that the British officers tried to stop certain information-including results of a DNA test DNA test n → DNS-Test m on a sample from the Mc Canns' hire car - from being made public. The request was denied by public prosecutor Jose Cunha de Magalhaese Meneses at a meeting in the Algarve town of Portimao yesterday, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Correio da Manha. Detective Superintendent Stuart Prior, the officer in charge of the British end of the inquiry, was among those at the conference, the paper said. A Leicestershire Police spokeswoman refused to comment on the report. |
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