Gerry McCann was formally declared a suspect on Friday night |
The parents of missing Madeleine McCann will leave Portugal for the UK on Sunday morning.
Kate McCann's parents have told the BBC that she and husband Gerry are preparing to fly back to Britain.
In newspaper interviews, the couple have accused the Portuguese police of trying to frame them after they were named as formal suspects or "arguidos".
The four-year-old disappeared from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve on 3 May.
'Incredibly frightening'
During an 11-hour interview, detectives suggested to Mrs McCann, 39, that traces of Madeleine's blood were found in the family's hire car.
The family say this is impossible as they did not rent the vehicle until 25 days after Madeleine disappeared.
Mrs McCann told the Sunday Mirror that during the interview, Portuguese police put her under pressure to confess that she killed her daughter by accident.
She said that police "want me to lie - I'm being framed".
Kate McCann was questioned for 11 hours on Thursday |
Speaking on Friday, before she was made an arguida, she added: "Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us."
Her husband Gerry, also 39, told the News of the World that Portuguese officers were looking for a quick end to the case and were exploiting apparent discrepancies in the couple's account of what happened.
He said: "In a system that you don't know and don't really trust it's incredibly frightening."
Mrs McCann's parents said that the couple were returning to the UK "with the full agreement of the Portuguese authorities and police".
No bail conditions, travel restrictions or charges have been imposed on the couple, who had been questioned separately for more than 24 hours.
Mr McCann was officially given "arguido" status 12 hours after his wife.
