McCanns won't use Madeleine fund for legal fight

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann will not seek to use money raised for the fund to find her to pay for their legal defence, a spokesman said today.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann will not seek to use money raised for the fund to find her to pay for their legal defence, a spokesman said today.

Kate and Gerry McCann have appointed top lawyers in Portugal and Britain after being named as formal suspects in their daughter’s disappearance.

Speaking from the McCanns’ home village of Rothley in Leicestershire, England, family spokesman David Hughes said: “They have decided not to seek to use those funds for their legal support.”

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