German prosecutors say Madeleine McCann — the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed dead — after identifying an imprisoned former sex offender as a murder suspect.
"We assume that the girl is dead," Braunschweig state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said.
He spent numerous years in Portugal and has two previous convictions for "sexual contact with girls".Christian Hoppe of Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office told German public broadcaster ZDF that the suspect, is currently imprisoned in Germany for a sexual crime.Police said whoever abducted the girl may have broken into the holiday apartment and then committed the kidnapping.
"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace."
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