BabyDollUK's blog: "MADDIE McCANN DAY 36"

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MADDIE McCANN DAY 36
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Police Deny Receiving Madeleine Call Spanish police have denied reports they received a telephone call from a man claiming to know where Madeleine McCann was. The message was earlier reported to be "credible" and so important that Gerry and Kate McCann put their schedule on hold while they awaited developments. Reports suggested the call had come from a pay-as-you go mobile from an unidentified country and the caller wanted to speak to the McCanns directly. A Spanish police source had originally insisted the message "did not appear to be a crank call". However, a Spanish police spokesman later described the report as "a lie". "All I can say is that it is a lie," a spokesman told The Associated Press. "I don't know where this came from but the police have no record of this call anywhere." Mr McCann has dismissed the call as "nothing of interest". The couple had been informed of the potential development while in Germany, where they were appealing to tourists who may have been in the Algarve around the time of the child's disappearance. At around 3pm on Wednesday, the couple - who were about to go to Tempelhof airport in Berlin to fly on to the Netherlands - were advised that the caller might try to contact them, so they stayed on at the British embassy. At 6pm, journalists travelling in the eight-seater private jet with the couple were told by the flight crew that there might be a change in destination. They revealed they had been asked to draw up a new flight plan involving a possible change from Amsterdam to East Midlands Airport. It was thought the McCanns might need to go back to the UK to talk to advisers about the call. But all efforts to re-establish contact with the man failed and the couple decided to go on to Amsterdam. It is 35 days since Madeleine was abducted from her bed in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz. Police have only one formal suspect, Robert Murat. McCanns Prepare For Final Push The parents of Madeleine McCann have gone back to Portugal to prepare for the final stage of a tour to raise awareness of their missing daughter. Gerry and Kate McCann have already visited Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands to raise awareness of the four-year-old's plight. They attended a concert in Lagos held in honour of Madeleine, who went missing from their holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz 36 days ago. The couple are expected to spend time with their two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie as they prepare to travel to Morocco. Earlier, their flight from Berlin to Amsterdam was delayed after police received a mystery phone call from a man claiming to know Madeleine's whereabouts. The "credible" call was taken from a man who wanted to speak directly to the McCanns, according to a Spanish police source. It was traced to an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone from an unidentified country but not thought to be Morocco, where a previous possible sighting of Madeleine was reported. Although the caller did not reveal his identity or nationality, the information was considered important enough to alert Mr and Mrs McCann, the source said. But all efforts to re-establish contact with the man failed. Mr McCann later insisted there was a logic behind the trips they have made in the last week. "We are not going to go to every country in Europe. We are not selling a book, we are not pop stars, we have come here for a very specific reason," he added. Mrs McCann said: "We are amateurs in this. There are very few people who will have to go through anything as painful as this."