Christian B says he drove the woman to Portugal’s Faro airport for a home flight the next day and they were stopped and photographed at a police roadblock. The suspect, a German troller, claims she was arrested at airport security for carrying illegal pepper spray and later appeared in court. Christian B, as he is known under German privacy law, believes that the Portuguese police should have a record of those events that will prove his relationship with the young German woman who took a vacation with her parents. German police have apparently found a photo of a woman lying in his van during her search for a rape for which Christian B, 44, is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany. When he first spoke about his alibi, he could not remember the woman’s full name, but it is understandable that he has since been able to recognize her. If true, the alibi will contradict vital, but occasional, data from cell phone data that police say brings him to the apartment where Madeleine disappeared from her bed 15 years ago on May 3. 2007. German prosecutor Hans Christian Walters, who is leading the Madeleine investigation with Portuguese and British detectives, told Sky News: “I guess if he has something that acquits him, sooner or later he will share it with us and then we will check. What will happen then, let’s see. “So far he has not told us anything, he has not given us an alibi. Therefore, we can only work on the evidence we have found so far in our research. And there was nothing to acquit him.” Image: Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 However, until two weeks ago, German prosecutors had never had a formal interview with Christian B, a convicted sex offender, even though he had been the prime suspect for more than four years. He was interrogated on 21 April on behalf of the Portuguese authorities who had just made him an arguido, an official suspect, for their own purposes, in order to avoid the statute of limitations for serious crimes under Portuguese law. But as an arguing, Christian B had the right to remain silent and refused to answer questions about his whereabouts the night Madeleine disappeared. Madeleine was almost four when she disappeared from the family’s rented holiday home in Praia da Luz on the Algarve coast. Kate and Gerry McCann’s parents were having lunch with friends near the holiday complex and had left her to sleep with her younger twin brothers. They and their friends took turns checking the sleeping children every half hour. The McCanns were once suspected of their daughter’s disappearance, but later got rid of any suspicion. They cling to the hope that she will still be alive. Image: Madeleine’s parents cling to the hope that she will be found alive Portuguese police and British detectives have been investigating, but German authorities took the lead in 2017 when a friend of the suspect told them that Christian B allegedly claimed he knew what had happened to Madeleine. Mr Wolters said: “In fact we have not found a single piece of the puzzle in the last two years that would have helped Christian B.’s acquittal in any way. in the light, really anywhere. “What we learned, everything went in the other direction, so it was rather incriminating, without being able to analyze it now. He added: “However, it is not predictable when we will finish. Therefore, I can not say for sure that we will complete the research this year. It really depends on how it will develop.” Mr Wolters has previously said he believed Madeleine was dead, but did not say what evidence he had. He is also investigating Christian B on three other counts of sexual assault, including the rape of a young Irishwoman, Hazel Behan, who was working as a holiday agent in the Algarve in 2004. She has spoken publicly about rape in her Praia da Rocha apartment and waived her right to anonymity.
