The e-fits have been finally published 15 months after the three-year-old vanished from her family's apartment in Praia da Luz last May.
The pictures could have played a vital part in helping to eliminate suspects or stop any abductor from fleeing the country with Madeleine.
In the UK, pictures of suspects are released nationwide and printed in as many outlets as possible to help police track wanted people down as soon as possible in the days after a child goes missing.
However, police did not show the pictures to anyone, including Kate and Gerry McCann in the days that followed Madeleine's abduction and insisted a case must be closed before they can release pictures of the suspects.
Yesterday, a friend of the Kate an
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