HOT OF THE PRESS! We have a suspect!

Portuguese police said on Tuesday they have identified a suspect in their investigation of the kidnapping of four-year-old Madeleine McCann.On Monday they searched a villa close to the complex from where she went missing more than a week ago and took away a British man, Robert Murat, for questioning."There is a suspect," a spokeswoman for the judicial police said but gave no further details.It was not immediately clear whether the suspect had been arrested. In Portugal police can identify a suspect without arresting the person.Murat often spoke to reporters in the days just after the disappearance of Madeleine, saying she looked like his daughter in England. His mother's house, "Casa Liliana," is about 150 metres from the resort apartment where the McCann family was staying when their daughter disappeared.Local television showed images of the house, which had a large green gate.Police were seen leaving the house late on Monday after entering it early in the day. Police drained the swimming pool at the house, according to local media.A British man questioned by police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been officially classed as a "suspect".Robert Murat was questioned late on Monday night while forensic experts searched his house just yards from where the four-year-old was snatched 12 days ago.He was one of three people questioned by detectives in the town of Portimao. All three were released overnight.Although he has not been charged and is not believed to be in custody, it is thought he is the first person to be formally classed as a suspect.Among items taken from the house which was searched on Monday night were videotapes and a computer, witnesses said.Under Portuguese law, people who are questioned are not under arrest but simply treated as witnesses.Arrests can only be made when police consider someone a suspect or possible suspect and then they require a court order before they can be cast as such.Chief Inspector Olegario Sousa, spokesman for the Madeleine McCann investigation, said on Tuesday that a British man in his thirties taken from the house which was searched has now been classed as an "arguido".Madeleine was snatched from her bed in the resort town of Praia da Luz on May 3 while her parents were dining nearby. There has been no news of her whereabouts since.