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McCann files to be given to judge  

Portuguese prosecutors are to hand to a judge the files on missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann.
Madeleine's parents - who have been named as suspects - are now waiting to hear what action will be taken.

BBC reporter Caroline Hawley said the options available to the judge included ordering more search warrants and changing the McCanns' "arguido" status.

It had been thought the prosecutor would take longer to study the files, our correspondent said.

On Monday, police handed their files to the Algarve-based prosecutor, Jose Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses, for him to decide whether to bring charges against Kate and Gerry McCann.

Speaking outside the prosecutor's office in Portimao, Luisa Duarte said Mr Cunha de Magalhaes e Meneses had received the papers and decided they should go before an instructional judge.

The judge has 10 days to make a decision on the files' contents.

The McCanns are back at their home in Rothley in Leicestershire where Mr McCann has described the events of the past week as an "unending nightmare".

i applied for that pack too, seems like ages ago and still no sign of it, thought there might have been a confirmation email or something?

Well if you wanted to place bets on which one would crack quickest which one would you choose?

You see there is the problem right there, is it a 99% match, is it a 100% match, is it an 80% match?
And how come it's being referred to in terms of percentages when DNA is generally referred to as 1 in one million or so on.

I hate being this confused.

Re manbags Gabriel Hurl.

Gab Hurl, this is perhaps a style issue. The only way a 25+ man carrying a bag round is acceptable is if you don't want to carry a brief case and have found a trendy alternative. Manbags are wrong.

also not acceptable - Sunbeds, handbags for boys (or manbags as they are sometimes called).

I think aftershave balm is perfectly acceptable.

It's just a point of order folks but it may be an important one. Repeatedly people here are mentioning the presence of the missing child's blood in the boot of the hire car. It was bodily fluid which was discovered, it is possible therefore that it was not blood.

It is true unfortunately. The boy was 13 years old and played his football for Ardboe.

Just awful.