McCanns used fund for mortgage

The cash donated by the public to aid the hunt for Madeleine McCann was used by her parents for mortgage payments.

Gerry and Kate McCann's representative Clarence Mitchell said: "The fund has always had the ability to assist the family financially if necessary, and they've only used it to pay for two mortgage payments, earlier this year.

"When they were made arguido (suspects), it stopped, which was a mutual decision on the part of the fund and they were happy to accept that their changed status meant they were no longer entitled to that assistance."

The private detective agency Metodo 3 have been hired by Gerry and Kate McCann to look for Madeleine, who disappeared, then aged three, from the Praia da Luz resort in the Algarve on May 3.

Mr McCann, 39, has confirmed that he will go back to work as a consultant cardiologist for three half-days a week at Leicester's Glenfield Hospital in the next few days.

Gerry and his GP wife Kate, also 39, have been on unpaid leave from their jobs since Madeleine went missing.

The McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, have said they will mark six months since Madeleine's disappearance at a church service on Saturday.

Mr McCann said in his blog: "We will be marking this milestone very quietly with an ecumenical prayer service for Madeleine and other missing children in the local Anglican church."

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