Portugal:Detectives searching for four-year-old Madeleine McCann were yesterday searching the garden at the home of the only official suspect in the case.
Police have cleared undergrowth and cut down trees at Robert Murat's house in Praia da Luz, Portugal, a few metres from the resort where Madeleine was snatched more than three months ago.
The renewed search comes as Madeleine's mother, Kate McCann, spoke about her regret at leaving her daughter on the night she disappeared.
"We are just so desperately sorry," she said. As she put Madeleine to bed on the night she went missing, the three-year-old had told her: "Mummy, I've had the best day ever. I'm having lots and lots of fun." The villa which Mr Murat shares with his mother, Jenny, was first raided by police on May 14th, 11 days after Madeleine went missing.
- (Guardian service)