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Article: Suspect's description made public after family pressure MADELEINE DISAPPEARANCE: INFORMATION ROW MADELEINE DISAPPEARANCE: INFORMATION ROW Threat of legal action forced Portuguese police into releasing details of sighting

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The Sunday Herald
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May 27, 2007
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PORTUGUESE police were forced into releasing a description of a suspect wanted in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann after the parents of the missing girl held discussions with prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown and threatened legal action.

Last night, 23 days after their daughter went missing from a Portuguese holiday resort, the British couple welcomed news that police had released the description of a man seen carrying what was thought to be a child.

The McCanns were desperate to release the details but the Portuguese police, bound by national secrecy laws, have issued little in the way of details about the case and few appeals for information in the course of the ...

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