MADELEINE McCann’s suspect “Christian B’ has now been linked the disappearance of a boy, 6, in 1996 and a girl, 5, in 2015 by police.
“Christian B”, 43, is believed to have been investigated over the disappearance of a German boy, René and a girl named only as Inga, according to media reports.
Inga went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on May 2, 2015, and has never been found, while police have reopened the investigation in René Hasee’s disappearance in 1996.
The schoolboy, from Elsdorf, Germany, vanished on June 21, 1996 while on holiday with his family in Aljezur – just 25 miles from Praia da Luz, in the Algarve.
Police homed in on “Christian B” after he told a pal in a pub he snatched Madeleine, who believe he staked out the McCanns’ holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, for four days before the three-year-old was snatched in May 2007.
Portuguese cops revealed that they did tell their British counterparts about the new prime suspect when the 2012 case files were handed over.
He is currently in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in the Algarve resort in 2005.
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