Portuguese police have asked Madeleine McCann's parents to return to the Algarve to stage a reconstruction of the night their daughter went missing, a family spokesman said this afternoon.
Kate and Gerry McCann and their lawyers are considering the proposal and have yet to decide whether to go, spokesman Clarence Mitchell said. "It is very much under discussion."
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"What Kate and Gerry would welcome very much is something that will actually help find Madeleine. If a Crimewatchstyle reconstruction . . . is what is being proposed, then of course they will take part."
He said such a televised reconstruction was suggested by the McCanns and BBC Crimewatchlast year, but was turned down by the Portuguese authorities. "You have to ask, what good will it do a year on?" he said.
The McCanns, who are still suspects in the case, flew home last September after days of police questioning. Their daughter disappeared on May 3rd during a holiday in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.
Portuguese detectives arrived in England yesterday to attend interviews with seven others who were with the McCanns on the night Madeleine went missing.
The McCanns believe their daughter was abducted from their holiday apartment while they were dining with friends. Two tabloid newspapers made front page apologies last month to the McCanns for suggesting they might have killed their daughter and covered up her death.