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The Latest Breaking News from Praia da Luz

Freed Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner claims he can solve ‘scandal of century’

German national Brueckner, 49, told phone shop manager he is ‘sitting on crucial information’, reports say

Evening Standard

Madeleine McCann: What next for infamous cold case as prime suspect walks free and refuses to answer Met Police questions

Madeleine’s case remains one of the most high-profile unsolved disappearances of recent decades – but 18 years on, investigators appear no closer to bringing a culprit to justice

The Independent UK

Prime suspect in Madeleine McCann disappearance released from German prison

German national Christian Brueckner was serving a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in 2005.

Evening Standard

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Madeleine McCann Suspect to Be Freed, but His Side About the Case Remains a Secret - Why Is He Keeping Mum?

The primary suspect in the missing case of a 3-year-old British national in Portugal turns down an interview with the police.

International Business Times UK

Prime Madeleine McCann suspect refuses Met interview before German prison release

Scotland Yard made formal request to interview Christian Brückner, due for release from seven-year rape sentence

The Guardian - UK

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner refuses to speak to Met Police before German prison release

The German national ‘remains a suspect’ in an ongoing investigation, the force has said

The Independent UK

Main suspect in Madeleine McCann disappearance refuses interview with Met Police

‘In the absence of an interview, we will nevertheless continue to pursue any viable lines of enquiry’ - DCI Mark Cranwell

Evening Standard

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

ON THE GROUND: After a three-day search effort draws 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

The Independent UK

‘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 ever

The Guardian - UK

‘Everybody’s fed up’: Inside the Algarve resort haunted by the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

Eighteen years after Madeleine McCann went missing from an apartment block in Praia Da Luz, the Independent’s crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin discovers a coastal resort desperate to move on

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

Evening Standard

Maddie McCann search ramped up as ground-penetrating radar used in ‘now or never’ hunt

Madeleine McCann vanished from Praia da Luz in 2007

Evening Standard

Police focus on abandoned Portuguese buildings in Madeleine McCann search

German and Portuguese officers work in countryside near resort where British toddler went missing in 2007

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Evening Standard

Madeleine McCann: Search teams scour scrubland and abandoned buildings

Painstaking work is taking place in an area a few miles from the Algarve resort where Madeleine was last seen in 2007.

Evening Standard

Madeleine McCann search: Police 'bring in radar equipment' as hunt for missing girl continues near Portugal's Praia da Luz

Search teams seen draining a well and clearing areas of dense vegetation near abandoned buildings in an area near Praia da Luz

The Independent UK

Searches for Madeleine McCann to continue in Portugal

On Tuesday, search teams were seen draining a well and clearing areas of dense vegetation near abandoned buildings in an area near Praia da Luz.

The Independent UK

Shovels, pickaxes and an abandoned farmhouse: Inside the new search for Madeleine McCann as police race against time

ON THE GROUND IN PRAIA DA LUZ: With police scouring derelict farm buildings in Praia da Luz, time is running out to find evidence linking Madeleine’s disappearance to the only suspect, The Independent’s crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin writes

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Evening Standard

Madeleine McCann suspect gloats about impending freedom in chilling interview: 'I'd enjoy a steak and a beer'

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 48, voiced his frustration at still being in prison, insisting on his innocence

Evening Standard

Madeleine McCann: Latest search sees teams drain well and clear dense vegetation

German investigators are working with Portuguese police officers and firefighters to search countryside around 3.5 miles from Praia da Luz.

Evening Standard

Fresh search for Madeleine McCann gets under way in Portugal

German and Portuguese police have gathered in countryside a few miles from Praia da Luz where Madeleine, then aged three, was last seen 18 years ago.

Evening Standard

Madeleine McCann: Fresh police searches to start on Tuesday in Portugal

Madeleine, then aged three, disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal.

Euronews

Police launch new searches in Portugal in Madeleine McCann investigation

German and Portuguese authorities are working together to investigate the 2007 disappearance of the British toddler in the Algarve.

The Independent UK

Mapped: Where police will begin new major search for Madeleine McCann

Madeleine disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the resort of Praia da Luz

The Independent UK

Madeleine McCann search latest: Animal bones among limited findings as police hunt ends in Praia da Luz

The three-day search was called off after limited findings including animals bones were unearthed in Praia da Luz

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