A man will go on trial today accused of murdering and beheading a British grandmother in a frenzied knife attack on the holiday island of Tenerife.

A man accused of beheading a British grandmother in a shop in Tenerife had been released from a psychiatric unit in the UK.

The man questioned by Portuguese police about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann would rather “help than hinder”, one of his friends said today.