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Kate takes drug tests to prove she wasn't on anti-depressants when Madeleine vanished
Last updated at 16:07pm on 23rd November 2007
Kate McCann has had herself tested for drugs to prove she was not on medication at the time her daughter vanished, it has been revealed.
Mrs McCann did it to refute claims she was "mentally unstable" and taking anti-depressants when Madeleine went missing on May 3.
Portuguese police had been working on a theory that she killed her daughter because she could not cope.
Clear: Kate McCann's test results show no evidence of drugs in her body over the past eight months, say her legal team
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Results of a toxicology test on her hair samples show no evidence of drugs in her body over the past eight months, her legal team announced today.
As first reported in Daily Mail sister paper Evening Standard, her two-year-old twins Sean and Amelie have also been tested to show they were never given sedatives by Mrs McCann or her husband Gerry.
This is an attempt to scotch accusations that Madeleine may also have been given sedatives and had died of an accidental overdose.
The drug tests form part of a dossier of evidence compiled by the McCanns which they claim demolishes the police case against them.
Portugese police had been working on a theory that Kate McCann killed her daughter Madeleine because she could not cope
In an exclusive interview, Edward Smethurst, the lawyer coordinating the McCanns' defence, said: "Hair grows by about a centimetre a month so if you have eight centimetres of hair, you can test for drugs going back eight months.
"With the appropriate, fully-accredited experts, hair samples were taken from Sean, Amelie and Kate and the conclusion was no evidence of sedatives or drugs were found.
"There were various stories circulating that Kate might somehow be unstable and might be depressed and whatever else, but the tests demonstrate that the kind of drugs she might be on did not show up."
The tests were done in September, shortly after the McCanns were named official suspects by Portuguese police.
They accused Mrs McCann of killing Madeleine and her husband of helping to dispose of her body.
At the time it was claimed Portuguese detectives had drafted in criminal psychologists to analyse Mrs McCann's mental state.
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Gerry and Kate McCann
Tests: Twins Sean and Amelie have been tested to show they were never given sedatives by their parents
Journals written by Mrs McCann were also seized.
There were claims police had applied to see her medical records to prove she was suffering from clinical depression. The allegations are all denied by the McCanns.
The McCanns have also had independent forensic tests on a Renault Scenic hire car which they claim shows no trace of Madeleine's DNA in the boot.
Mr Smethurst added: "We believe it highly unlikely charges will ever be brought against Gerry and Kate. Now we just want to focus efforts of finding Madeleine."
He urged anybody with information to call 0034 902 300 213.
• It has emerged that the woman who owns the holiday apartment from which Madeleine disappeared is also called McCann — and lives less than a mile from where Kate McCann grew up.
But the owner, Ruth McCann, has no family connection with Madeleine.
A Portuguese police source said: "It is a pure coincidence". Ruth McCann, 53, lives minutes from Mossley Hill, Liverpool, where Kate's parents, Brian and Susan Healy, still live.
She said today: "I will not speak to the press, not now, not ever."
The Ocean Club Resort is run by holiday company Mark Warner, but it is understood the company acts as an agent for owners of the apartments.
Nää tavalliset lähinnä on vaan "outoja" ulkopuolisen silmin katsottuna. 
Täti otti juoksuaskelia, kai se ajatteli että siellä on jotkut orgiat tai huumekekkerit menossa (meillä oli naamiaisbileet, mitä tulee niin myöhään illasta ovelle!). 
) labrassa, näkyikö jotain lääkettä. Ei näkynyt. 
ummistaessa silmänsä..." Tai Man-saarelta, minne huolestunut sukulainen haki tytön turvaan. 