13 h. ago Inside the abandoned buildings where police held new search for Madeleine McCann

German and Portuguese police teams searched scrubland near where Madeleine disappeared

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13 h. ago Madeleine McCann police 'found something they were looking for' says detective

A detective who was brought in to help find Madeleine McCann, has said he is "convinced" that German police have found important evidence

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21 h. ago Is this the end of the road in the hunt for Madeleine McCann? How the desperate new search unfolded in Portugal

After a three-day search effort drew to a close without any sign of a breakthrough, crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports from Praia da Luz on the latest attempt to give the McCann family answers

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21 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect ‘told police questions about him can never be answered’

‘Was I or my vehicle clearly seen near the crime scene on the night of the crime?’ the man reportedly wrote

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31 h. ago Madeleine McCann suspect ‘told police decisive questions can never be answered’

Christian Brueckner is due to be released from jail in September if no further charges are brought.

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33 h. ago Inside abandoned farm buildings where cops held new search for Madeleine McCann

A latest Madeleine McCann search carried out by German and Portuguese teams has taken place in scrubland and derelict buildings near to where she disappeared in Praia da Luz

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38 h. ago ‘Every parent’s nightmare’: after 18 years, was this the final search for Madeleine McCann?

As visitors pose for selfies in the Portuguese resort where the British child disappeared, a breakthrough seems further away than everThe police have packed up, the diggers and radar scanners gone from the Algarve scrubland. The latest search for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment 2007, has ended quietly without any apparent breakthrough.After 18 years of intermittent searches, this one, led by German police, may well be the last. In Praia da Luz, a seaside town etched into the world’s memory by the tragedy, that realisation lands with a mix of relief and weariness. Locals barely speak about the case now, if at all. The McCann investigation brought an unrelenting glare of media attention that many here would prefer to forget. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that 'drunk' German wife of British man ran the child over before couple dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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40 h. ago What police found during Madeleine McCann search and what happens next in race against time

A team of German and Portuguese investigators have finished an extensive search

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45 h. ago Brit man at centre of new Madeleine McCann theory 'overheard saying 5 chilling words'

Portuguese authorities are said to have received a chilling tip-off from a British woman who believed her own brother - and his German wife - may be hiding the truth behind Madeleine McCann's disappearance

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45 h. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that British man and his 'drunk' German wife ran the child over then dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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48 h. ago German police brand search for Madeleine McCann a 'waste of time' as sources claim three

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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49 h. ago Madeleine McCann detective's haunting final words to friend before 'last throw of dice'

The head of the German force leading the fresh searches for Madeleine McCann confided in a friend before this week's search and shared a candid four word statement

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53 h. ago Revealed: The four words a top German detective said before 'last

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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59 h. ago Madeleine McCann search in Algarve called off after three days finding ‘nothing of consequence’

Scores of police have been searcing scrubland and an abandoned building near Praia da Luz with JCBs, radar and fingertip searches

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61 h. ago Investigators congratulate themselves as Madeleine McCann searches end

Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures.

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61 h. ago Madeleine McCann search called off after just three days as police pack up

German and Portuguese police began searching properties on Tuesday.

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61 h. ago Maddie McCann search in Algarve called off after three days finding ‘nothing of consequence’

Scores of police have been searcing scrubland and an abandoned building near Praia da Luz with JCBs, radar and fingertip searches

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61 h. ago New search for Madeleine McCann ENDS with dozens of police seen packing up equipment at remote Portuguese site

The new search for clues related to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has ended, after dozens of police were seen packing up investigative equipment at the Portuguese site. 

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67 h. ago Madeleine McCann searches to end after three days scouring abandoned buildings

The searches began on Tuesday in an area of scrubland on the outskirts of Lagos, Portugal.

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