LISBON - Police ended a two-day search of the home of the only suspect in the disappearance of a 4-year-old British girl from a Portuguese hotel three months ago, news reports said Sunday.
Throughout the day Sunday, more than 12 police officers using at least one dog searched the grounds of the house where 33-year-old Briton Robert Murat lives, which is about 100 metres from where Madeleine McCann was last seen, the Lusa news agency said.
The agents entered the house around 7 a.m. and finished shortly after 4 p.m., Lusa added.
It was not made known if they found anything.
Portuguese officers and two British detectives used rakes and hedge cutters to clear vegetation Saturday from the grounds of the home. It was not clear if any British detectives took part in the search Sunday.
Murat, who was with his lawyer, was in the house at the time. He was not arrested. Murat has always denied any involvement in the girl's disappearance.
Madeleine vanished May 3 after her parents left her and her 2-year-old twin siblings in their room while they went to a restaurant inside their hotel complex in Praia da Luz, a resort town in Portugal's Algarve region.
Her disappearance prompted an international search, and her parents have travelled throughout Europe and to the United States to publicize the effort to find her.
Murat is the only formal suspect in the case. Police questioned him after the disappearance, but later released him, saying they did not have enough evidence to charge him.
