From the Independent, today -
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/news-analysis/madeleine-mccann-suspect-german-police-christian-brueckner-a9549776.html#gsc.tab=0"This is a significant point in time for the Met’s investigation,” said the officer overseeing the probe into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy was announcing what may be the most significant development in the 13-year mystery – or another dead end that could prove fatal for the inquiry.
The new suspect is a German man whose phone records show he was near the McCanns’ apartment shortly before Madeleine’s disappearance, and who has a history of child sex offences and burgling holiday resorts.
The man is in prison in Germany after being convicted of raping an American woman in Portugal a year and a half earlier, but officers need more evidence to charge him in relation to the McCann case.
He is already appealing his rape conviction and unless new witnesses come forward with critical details of the suspect’s movements in Portugal, and those of his campervan and Jaguar, the trail will go cold once more.
Thirteen years of investigation and £12.3m of funding have led up to this point, and if the latest lead again proves fruitless it could be the end of the probe.
While the McCann inquiry has stopped and started several times, if fresh evidence is not found and charges do not result against this suspect, it could be finished for good.
Portuguese police closed their original investigation in 2008 and progress stalled until 2011, when the Home Office paid for Scotland Yard to review the available evidence.
Two years later, it opened its own probe but in 2015 the team dedicated to it was cut from 29 officers to five after “genuinely new” lines of inquiry led nowhere."Obviously Grange failed to recognise this man as a prime suspect at the time.
I wonder why this should be ?
