MADDIE 'MURDER'
Madeleine McCann prosecutor says he has ‘evidence she is dead’ but not enough to charge German suspect Christian B
A PROSECUTOR in the Madeleine McCann case says he has "evidence" the child is dead but not enough to charge prime suspect Christian B.
Hans Christian Wolters is urging Brit tourists and expats to help identify the German's homes so police can launch new searches for her body.
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Mr Wolters told last night that prosecutors were missing "hard evidence" needed for the suspect to go on trial.
He said: "All indications we have got that I can't tell you points in the direction that Madeleine is dead.
"The hard evidence we don’t have, we don’t have the crucial evidence of Madeleine 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."
He added: “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.
'OTHER BRIT VICTIMS'
"That’s why we need more information from people, especially places he has lived so we can target theses places especially and search there for Madeleine."
Madeleine went missing on a family holiday with parents Kate and Gerry in Praia de Luz, Portugal in 2007.
Mr Wolters also said he believes there would be other British victims who were targeted on holiday in the resort town.
He said: “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."
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After thirteen years of searching, her body has never been found, though German national Christian B, a 43-year-old convicted paedophile, has now been named as the prime suspect in the case.
And since he was named publicly, UK and Germany police have received hundreds of tips about the sex offender and the two vehicles he was using at the time of the crime, Mr Wolters said.
The prosecutor is now calling on others who may have known Christian B at the time to contact authorities with potentially crucial information.
He said: "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.
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"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."
Christian B has also been linked by police to the disappearance of a six-year-old boy in Portugal in 1996 and a five-year-old girl in Germany in 2015.
Authorities in Belgium have also linked him to the murder of missing 16-year-old Carola Titze, who disappeared while on holiday in De Haan in 1996.
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And a father of a Brit who vanished in Germany nearly 20 years ago said he fears Christian B also abducted his daughter.
Trainee nurse Louise Kerton, 24, went missing in Germany in 2001 while the murder suspect was flitting between Portugal and his German homeland.
Distraught dad Phil Kerton, 75, told The Sun: “Christian seems to have gone after all ages, despite preferring the very young.
"I would urge police to make sure his whereabouts and his activities at the time of Louise’s disappearance are properly investigated.”
Christian B is currently eligible for parole having served two-thirds of his sentence for drug offences – but German legal experts say it is unlikely to go through as he is under investigation for murder.
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Yesterday, The Sun reported that the suspect told colleagues "there are ways to make a body disappear" as they discussed the toddler's disappearance.
Christian B is said to have "lost it" as workers at a kiosk he ran in his hometown of Braunschweig when they tried having a conversation about the toddler.
Barmaid Lenta Johlitz, 34, told German newspaper Bild: “Once he was completely freaked out when we were sitting talking with friends about the Madeleine case.
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“He wanted us to stop. He cried out, ‘The child is dead now and that’s a good thing’, then he said: ‘You can make a body disappear quickly. Pigs also eat human flesh’.”
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