A German man with a history of child sexual offenses has been identified by police in the U.K. and Germany as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, who made headlines when she vanished from the Portuguese resort 13 years ago
LONDON — A German man with a history of child sexual offences has been identified by police in the U.K. and Germany as a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, who made headlines around the world when she vanished from the Portuguese resort 13 years ago.
German police released a statement that said that the man — who is currently imprisoned in that country on unrelated offences — has a number of convictions for child sexual abuse. Portuguese police closed the investigation in 2008, but after two years of reviewing case documents, London cops reopened the case which has transfixed Britain in July 2013. They have since spent the equivalent of millions of dollars trying to find her, but no one has been charged and there have been no confirmed sightings.
Story continuesIt added that the suspect had been been linked to an early 1980s VW T3 Westfalia camper van — with a white upper body and yellow skirting, registered in Portugal.Pictured in the Algarve in 2007, police said he was driving the vehicle in the Praia da Luz area in the days before Madeleine's disappearance and is believed to have been living in it for days or weeks before and after May 3.
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