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On 16 February 2008, Gary O’Shea of The Sun reported “Cops final bid to save Maddie”.

He said Portuguese cops probing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have reinterviewed five witnesses in a last-ditch bid to solve the case. The witnesses are all linked to the Ocean Club apartment complex in Praia da Luz – where Maddie vanished on May 3. Among them is the ex husband of Michaela Walczuch, girlfriend of suspect Robert Murat.

Michaela, 34 – who denies any involvement in Maddie’s disappearance – was allegedly spotted in Zaio, Morocco, on June 15, moments after a girl resembling Madeleine was seen being dragged away by an African woman. Also questioned last week was the pool cleaner. Luis Antonio, 37 – who is being treated as a witness not a suspect – was first quizzed in the summer. Meanwhile, The Sun can reveal that three of the Tapas Seven – who dined with Kate and Gerry McCann on the night Maddie vanished – are key to the final round of police inquiries.

The trio – believed to be Jane Tanner, her partner Russell O’Brien, and David Payne – will be grilled by UK cops about alleged inconsistencies in their witness statements. Portuguese police will sit in on the interviews. Jane, 37, said she saw a man carrying a child away from the complex. Russell O’Brien, 36, told cops he saw Murat, 34, outside the flat at 1am and David Payne, 41, is the last person outside the McCann family to see Maddie alive.

A source said: “It sounded like they were concerned about timeline inconsistencies. But if you have nine people not wearing watches, it would be suspicious if their times matched exactly.”

No request has yet been made to reinterview Kate and Gerry McCann, both 39, of Rothley, Leics.

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