Madeleine McCann: Apartment was not made crime scene for two months

The apartment where Madeleine McCann vanished was used by holiday-makers for nearly two months before police sealed it off as a permanent crime scene, case files have showed. By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz The bedroom where Madeleine McCann was sleeping the night she vanished The two-bedroom flat in Praia da Luz was crucial to the investigation with forensic teams dusting the shutters and specialists taking DNA samples from the furniture. It lay empty for a month after three-year-old Madeleine’s disappearance, but was then available to tourists throughout the summer, raising fears of contamination. Apartment 5A in the Ocean Club resort was eventually cordoned off in August after sniffer dogs from the UK - trained to detect corpses and human remains - were brought in. Their reaction prompted investigators to take further... [read full story]