KATE McCann said she was offered an outrageous deal by Portuguese police who told her Gerry would "go free" if she admitted killing their daughter.

In a highly offensive move, cops told Kate she would serve "around two years in jail" if she "confessed" to causing Madeleine's death and hiding her body.

Just a few months after Maddie had gone missing from the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007 a lawyer helping the couple told Kate that if she agreed to the deal it would be "much better" than if they both ended up being charged with murder.

Heartbroken Kate was also told that if she didn't do it both her and Gerry could end up being put in prison for life.

'GERRY WILL GO FREE'
The lawyer then added further insult by telling Kate that if she "took the blame", Gerry could "go free and return to work" in the UK and look after their toddler twins.

Kate revealed the bizarre offer put on the table by the Portuguese lawyer in her book "Madeleine", revealing that Gerry's reaction was to drop to his knees sobbing.

But a furious Kate told the lawyer that she would not admit to a "lie" telling him that both her and Gerry were completely innocent. She also said that if she did as he was suggesting, the search for Madeleine would end.

It was the same lawyer who later advised Kate not to answer any questions the Portuguese police later put to her during an intensive interrogation session at a police station.

Kate later told The Sun that she was "heartbroken" when she was first offered the deal and subjected to the questioning, saying: "It was the first time it really came home to me that my worse fears were true -no one was looking for Madeleine, except us."

Maddie disappeared from her bed on May 3, 2007, while on holiday with her parents and family friends at a resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, had left her sleeping with her siblings while they had dinner at the hotel's restaurant - only realising about 10pm that she was gone.

The notorious missing child case is the subject of a new eight-part documentary on Netflix titled The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann.