Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 May 2007, 07:46 GMT
I'm Madeleine scapegoat, man says
The man being treated as a suspect in the search for missing Madeleine McCann says he has been made "a scapegoat for something I did not do".
Briton Robert Murat, 33, told Sky News the situation had "ruined" his life.
Police have searched his mother's Algarve villa, which is close to where four-year-old Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was last seen on 3 May.
However, officers said they did not have the evidence to formally arrest or charge anybody.
Meanwhile, Madeleine's uncle and aunt, John and Philomena McCann, from Glasgow, are to visit the House of Commons in an effort to keep the search in the public eye.
Stressed
Glasgow MP Mohammed Salwar, who will accompany them, said the McCann family had "the full support of the British government".
Philomena McCann told BBC's Breakfast Gerry and Kate, Madeleine's parents, remained upbeat and positive, although "extremely tired, stressed and worried".
Mr Murat, who previously lived in Hockering, Norfolk, has recently been living with his mother Jenny, 71, in Praia da Luz.
Speaking off camera after it emerged he was being treated as a suspect, Mr Murat reportedly told Sky News: "This has ruined my life and made my life very difficult for my family here and in Britain.
"The only way I will survive this is if they catch Madeleine's abductor."
Members of Mr Murat's family have insisted he had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance and say he was having dinner with his mother on the night it happened.
Map of locations
On Tuesday, Chief Inspector Olegario de Sousa told a news conference he could not confirm whether Madeleine was alive or dead.
He said police had searched five houses on Monday and seized "various materials" from the properties which were undergoing forensic tests.
It is believed two cars used by the Murats have been examined, and computers, mobile phones and several video tapes were taken away.
Two other people - a German woman and a Portuguese man - have been questioned as witnesses.
Mr Murat has not been formally named by police as their suspect.
Mr Sousa confirmed the suspect had assisted police in the early stages of the investigation by working as a translator.
The suspect has signed an identity and residence statement which prevents him from moving house or leaving Portugal, and requires him to regularly report to police.
Mr Murat may have been designated a suspect by police, or he could have chosen to take the status himself to gain additional protections under Portuguese law.
An arrest can be made once someone is a suspect, but only if there is sufficient evidence.
Mr Murat, a former property developer who has a four-year-old daughter, had become well known to journalists during the search for Madeleine.
Police began questioning him and searching his mother's property, known as Casa Liliana, after Sunday Mirror journalist Lori Campbell spoke to the British Embassy and the police about him.
Madeleine disappeared from her bedroom 13 days ago as her parents ate dinner at a nearby tapas restaurant.
The international number for Crimestoppers is +44 1883 731 336. People with information about Madeleine can call anonymously.
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