Exeter links
Madeleine: Police to question McCanns 'over Exeter Connection that links Murat and their friends'
Kate and Gerry McCann's hopes of being quickly cleared as suspects in their daughter's disappearance appeared to suffer a setback yesterday.
It emerged that Portuguese police want to question them again.
Detectives are preparing to return to Britain next week to speak to the couple and other members of the "Tapas Nine" who dined together on the night Madeleine vanished.
One line of questioning could be a coincidence - dubbed the Exeter Connection - linking suspect Robert Murat, 34, a British expat living in the village where the little girl vanished, to two of the nine.
Murat stayed with his sister in Exeter in the spring, and returned to Portugal two days before Madeleine disappeared on May 3, The Sun reports today.
Two of the Tapas Nine, Russell O'Brien, 36, and Jane Tanner, 37, who says she saw a man carrying the child away, live less than a mile from Murat's sister, Samantha.