A German prosecutor says he has evidence Madeleine McCann is dead, as he appealed for British tourists to come forward with information.
Last week a German child sex offender, named only as Christian B, was identified as the toddler's potential killer after Scotland Yard revealed he has become the main suspect in Madeleine's disappearance.
Detectives leading the investigation said that the 43-year-old man was in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on the night the three-year-old vanished in 2007.
In his first interview since revealing the new suspect, prosecutor Hans Christian Wolter told Sky News that they have "no information that she is alive".
Mr Wolters said police need help from British tourists who visited Praia da Luz between 1995 and 2007.
"After all the information we got, the girl is dead," he told Sky News. "We have no information that she is alive. All indication we have got that I can't tell you points in the direction that Madeleine is dead.
"We got things we cannot communicate that speak for the theory that Madeleine is dead, even if I have to admit that we don't have the body."
Speaking at his office in Braunschweig Mr Wolters continued: "The hard evidence we don't have, we don't have the crucial evidence of Madeline McCann's body.
"We expect that she is dead, but we don't have enough evidence that we can get a warrant for our suspect in Germany for the murder of Madeleine McCann.
"At the moment we also don't have enough proof for a trial at court, but we have some evidence that the suspect has done the deed.
"That's why we need more information from people, especially places he has lived so we can target these places especially and search there for Madeleine."
Mr Wolters said he believes the suspect may have committed more crimes against British people and urged them to call the police.
He said: "We need help from the people, from British tourists that might have been between 1995 and 2007 in Praia da Luz. Only with these calls we can solve the case of Madeleine McCann.
"We think our suspect has done more crimes possibly against British, Irish or American people. All these people are asked to call us so we can solve these cases."
Mr Wolters also said police need more information about the new suspect, such as where he lived and who his friends were.
"Basically, we need every information in that time period, where did he live, where did he work, to which places he had a special relationship, who were his friends and the people he knew," he said.
"Who can tell us what the suspect's life was like, where has he been with his cars, who has been in his houses and can tell us what they look like from the inside.
"And we hope that maybe we find victims that maybe also got in these houses, victims of sexual crimes."
Last week, Christian Hoppe, from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), said: "Unfortunately our investigation leads us to believe she was killed."
He told the country’s ZDF television channel the suspect is currently serving a prison sentence for a sex crime and has two previous convictions for “sexual contact with girls”.
He said officers have not ruled out a sexual motive in the Madeleine case.
