Brazil star Neymar could not hold back the tears as he revealed he had come within a few inches of being paralysed.

Kate and Gerry McCann tonight threatened to pull out of plans to return to Portugal to help police reconstruct the events around their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance amid a furious row over leaked interviews.

Portuguese police are arriving in the UK tomorrow to sit in as the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann are interviewed.

One of Portugal’s most senior detectives is taking charge of the Madeleine McCann case, officials said today.