https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12016330/madeleine-mccann-suspect-phone-link/Nick Pisa
2 Jul 2020, 22:00Updated: 2 Jul 2020, 22:06
MADELEINE McCann police are probing a “promising” new lead following a TV appeal.
A viewer of Germany’s Crimewatch called cops to say they recognised a mobile number that suspect Christian B is said to have phoned on the night Madeleine vanished.
Police now hope to trace the Portuguese number’s owner. They are also checking banks in Portugal to see if it was topped up at an ATM.
In the new TV appeal about three-year-old Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance, German police urged viewers to check diaries and contacts books to see if they recognised the number.
As the show ended, detective Alfred Hettmer revealed: “There have been 16 calls about this number and one of them is promising.”
The caller had contacted police in Bavaria — significant because that is where convicted paedo B lived before moving to Portugal.
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office urged the viewer to get in touch with them.
Met Police data shared with the Germans has put B’s own mobile close to the Ocean Club where the McCanns were holidaying.