Madeleine McCann's mum Kate offered deal by Portuguese police to admit killing daughter was a secret MI5 agent when her daughter Madeleine McCann case remains unsolved after DNA sample fails to produce match went missing, it has outrageously been claimed.
A Portuguese newspaper linked anguished Kate, 51, to the UK’s counter-intelligence service in a new slur in the run-up to the 12th anniversary of the youngster’s disappearance .
Veteran journalist Jose Antonio Saraiva fed the wild conspiracy theories surrounding the mystery by alleging a female doctor had insisted Madeleine’s disappearance was linked to her parents' “secret activity” because of her mum’s “suspected” MI5 membership.
Sol - the weekly national Portuguese newspaper he founded nearly 13 years ago - then claimed it might explain Gordon Brown’s decision to “dispatch” then-British Ambassador John Buck to Praia da Luz after the youngster went missing from an Algarve holiday apartment in 2007.
Disgraced ex-Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral, who features heavily in the new Netflix documentary on the Madeleine McCann case, claimed last year MI5 spies helped to cover up her death and disappearance.
Amaral, the lead investigator in the case before getting sacked for criticising the British police, said British secret agents “for sure had an involvement” in an Australian documentary which aired last April.
Lisbon-born Saraiva, who trained as an architect before becoming a journalist, said a female genetics doctor he named only as H.
Madeleine McCann case remains unsolved after DNA sample fails to produce match
Santos had identified Kate McCann as an MI5 agent and claimed it explained her daughter’s disappearance, although husband Gerry was also singled out as a a potential spy.
Writing in Sol, he said: “This would explain the immediate dispatch to Portugal of a representative of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and future Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
“It was said that Brown did it because he was Gerry’s schoolmate. But this explanation doesn’t wash.
“The English are very formal and there’s not the cronyism there that characterises southern Europe.
“A minister doesn’t send an official representative to find out about the disappearance of a little girl because he went to school with her father.”
The Record understands that no school link between Gerry and Gordon Brown has ever been confirmed.
Kate and Gerry McCann have spoken in the past about the hurt speculation and conspiracy theories have caused to the family.
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said their refusal to take part in new Netflix series ‘The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann’ was based on their belief it may encourage conspiracy theorists and would do nothing to help with the ongoing search for her.
He told This Morning last month “the worst of human nature” was spread across social media.
Madeleine McCann's mum Kate offered deal by Portuguese police to admit killing daughter
Kate McCann insisted from the outset her daughter had been abducted and she and her husband took Goncalo Amaral to court over his claims in controversial 2008 book ‘The Truth of the Lie’ that they had covered up her accidental death in their holiday apartment.
Mr Mitchell revealed last year in an interview one of the “most ridiculous” conspiracy theories he had ever heard was that Madeleine was born as the result of a government cloning project.
Gerry McCann said two years ago of the hurt fake accusations had caused them: “I’m sure it is a very small minority of people who spend their time doing it, but it has totally inhibited what we do.”
