Madeleine McCann latest – Chief suspect Christian B ‘has network of pals who’ll provide alibi for night Maddie vanished’
THE Madeleine McCann prime suspect has a “number of people” willing to provide an alibi, a source has said.
Convicted rapist Christian B was named by German prosecutors in 2020 but they have yet to build a case against the 44-year-old.
Three-year-old Madeleine vanished from her bed while on holiday with her parents and family friends at a resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal in 2007.
A new witness claims to have been with him around that time and also insists he was calm while she was with him.
She also claims they were stopped by police who reported no suspicious activity.
But now The Sun can reveal she is one of “multiple witnesses” who Christian B will turn to if quizzed again over the Maddie case.
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Cops ‘believe Madeleine McCann may still be ALIVE’
SCOTLAND Yard's Madeleine McCann team reportedly believe she may still be alive as they are treating the toddler's disappearance as a missing person case.
The top police unit, codenamed Operation Grange, are still operating in an "active" phase of their investigation.
A source told the : "The Met Police's Operation Grange is still running this as a missing person's investigation.
"Clearly the Met have more open thinking than the German authorities have at the present.
"Madeleine's parents have always said if they are presented with hard proof she has died they will accept it.
"But the fact Operation Grange still exists and still gets funding shows the Met still thinks there is still work and investigation to be done."
Operation Grange survives on the £350,000 special grant awarded by the Home Office to use until 2022.
Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann team reportedly believe she may still be alive Credit: PA Suspect prosecutors slam claims case is ‘crumbling over his alibi’
PROSECUTORS have rebuffed claims the case against Madeleine McCann suspect Christian B is set to crumble after British investigators allegedly found he has an alibi.
A team led by an ex-detective claim to have discovered the sex predator, 44, was “30 minutes away” from the resort in Praia da Luz, Portugal, when Madeleine disappeared.
But the new probe led by former Surrey Police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, is said to show an alibi for B “stacks up”.
But German authorities have dismissed the claims.
Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters told the : “If I had an alibi and was accused of this, I would say it. But I have heard no such claims from [Christian B] or his lawyer.”Read more here.
Christian B as the prime suspect
Christian B was identified as the prime suspect in Madeleine's disappearance June 2020.
He is serving a seven-year sentence in prison for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the Algarve in 2005.
Police officers are also investigating Christian B's alleged involvement in three other cases.
The first of the three offences is the rape of Irish woman Hazel Behan in Praia da Rocha on the Algarve in 2004.
The second offence is over the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in Portugal in 2007 and the third involves the abuse of four children at a festival in São Bartolomeu de Messines in 2017.
Christian B’s lawyer Friedrich Fulscher had said his client “denies any involvement” in the McCann case.
‘New clues and indications’
The documentary team from Sat.1, made up of ex-investigators and journalists, say they collected “many new clues and indications” that Christian was behind the incident.
Editor-in-chief Juliane Ebling said: “The sad story of Madeleine McCann is a story that has many German facets.
“The case is being tried at the Regional Court of Braunschweig, as the German Christian B. is the main suspect.
“In his environment there are many German women and men who can describe individual details surrounding the crime.
“Jutta Rabe has researched shocking material in Germany, Portugal and England over the past months, which heavily incriminates Christian B.”
Madeleine McCann investigators ‘discover shocking evidence’
MADELEINE McCann investigators have discovered “shocking” new evidence they claim could finally nail suspect Christian B.
German authorities believe convicted paedophile Christian B kidnapped and killed Maddie three-year-old Madeleine, who vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.
But now a team working on a documentary about Madeline have handed over fresh evidence to detectives.
They claim they have proof that shows Christian B was near Praia da Luz when Madeleine vanished while her parents dined in a tapas restaurant.
