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Madeleine died 'after large sleeping pill overdose' Last updated at 18:15pm on 13th September 2007
Madeleine McCann died of an overdose of sleeping pills, it was reported tonight.
A respected French newspaper said it had seen evidence that body fluids found in the boot of her parents' hire car proved the missing girl had been sedated.
France Soir said DNA analysis of the fluids showed the four-year-old had ingested larged quantities of sleeping pills.
The newspaper said it had seen "hard evidence", now in the hands of the Portuguese authorities, about Madeleine's "death".
France Soir has reported that Madeleine died of an overdose of sleeping pills
Guilhem Battut, an investigative journalist with the paper, said a report outlining how she died was already with Portuguese prosecutors.
He said scientific analyses of the fluids found in the car boot "prove that the little girl had ingested medicines, without doubt sleeping pills, in large quantities". These would have caused "an overdose", said Battut's report.
Other sources linked to the investigation have already said that police discovered "bodily fluids", not blood, with a match of at least 88 per cent match to Madeleine's genetic profile in the boot of her parents Gerry and Kate McCann's hired Renault Scenic.
Clumps of her hair were also reported to have been found in the boot in sufficient quantities to show that her body had been in it.
Scientifically, it would be possible to test such body fluids for traces of drugs, up to and including an overdose of sleeping pills.
Kate and Gerry McCann with their twins Amelie and Sean at the park yesterday
Meanwhile, Mrs McCann has invited social services to check on the welfare of Madeleine's twin brother and sister.
She is expected to be visited after telling social workers she wanted them to see that two-year-olds Sean and Amelie are not at risk.
The move came as Portuguese police revealed they want to re-interview Mrs McCann, who is now a suspect in her daughter's disappearance.
A distressed Mrs McCann, 39, today briefly left the family home in Rothley, Leicestershire, to collect the twins after a family friend took them for a walk. Relatives have gathered in the village to support the couple.
Mr McCann's older brother John, 48, said: "Kate has invited social services to make sure everything was okay, that was at her behest."
Leicestershire County Council said it could not comment on individual cases.
Portuguese detectives could travel to Britain to quiz Mrs McCann.
She was interviewed twice last week and formally declared a suspect after police told her they believed she had killed Madeleine. Chief Inspector Oligario Sousa, police spokesman in the case, said "it is not unlikely" that Mrs McCann will be questioned again.
But he refused to confirm when, claiming it was now a matter for the public prosecutor to arrange.
Mrs McCann will face 40 key questions about the night her daughter disappeared from their Algarve holiday apartment on 3 May.
She will have to detail her relationship with Madeleine and her movements since she vanished. The mother declined to answer many of the questions put to her by police in the presence of her Portuguese solicitor-Carlos Pinto de Abreu.
The doctor-is also expected to be quizzed about a diary police seized early last month. Officers have now asked the investigating judge to admit it officially as evidence.
Portuguese newspapers have claimed the diary shows Mrs McCann was abusive towards her children. Police are believed to think it will offer proof about her state of mind after the disappearance in Praia da Luz 133 days ago.
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Wow !!!!Thats scarey!!!! I would have thought a doctor would know what is a safe dose !!!!!
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Kate McCann's diary 'tells of struggle to control Madeleine'
Kate McCann's diary reveals she struggled to cope with three 'hyperactive' children, it was claimed yesterday.
The notebook, photocopied by Portuguese police, is said to show she found her role as a mother hard.
"She complains frequently that her children are 'hysterical' and speaks of Madeleine as a child whose excess activity exhausts her.
"She tells also how Gerry doesn't help her with the family chores and that she has to cope alone with her two youngest children."
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So it looks like she may be going for the "driven to it" defence, then? Or may claim that she "inadevertently" left her own sleeping pills lying around and the child took them?
The whole diary thing was something she started AFTER the disappearance. It all sounds so contrived.
This whole business makes me sick. I live very close to Rothley and the whole McCann crew and their family have done their best to encourage the press involvement. Now they are all shouting "go away!"
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I won't comment on anymore articles which are published by any newspaper.
IF the McCann's are getting charged and strong and unshakable evidence is provided then I will have my say again.
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