A child protection expert believes ‘German police are onto something’ in the latest update on the search for Madeleine McCann.
A fresh search for evidence in Madeleine’s disappearance will see more than 20 locations examined within a few miles away from where the young girl vanished in Portugal more than 18 years ago.
The area is close to the former home of convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner, named by German police as the prime suspect in the case.
Where are they searching for Madeleine McCann?
GMB correspondent Richard Gaisford explained earlier today (Wednesday June 4) that new searches would take place in coastal scrubland near Praia da Luz in the Algarve.
He explained: “We watched them yesterday digging away in ruins with pick-axes and spades, looking to see if they could find anything. They were looking deep into wells, pumping wells dry where they could. It’s been 18 years since Madeleine McCann vanished. A lot of searches have been made since then and a lot of questions raised. Now experts certainly believe that German police are onto something.”
He then introduced show guest and child protection expert Jim Gamble. He offered his take on why German police may have strong reasons to look there.
Gamble suggested: “They’re very conservative in what they say and what they do. They work to a very tight legal framework. So they must know something that we don’t to drive them back in this way, at this time to these particular sites with the number of forensic scientists they’re bringing to bear.
They must know something that we don’t.
He added: “No criminal justice agency in the world is going to throw that amount of money at this time of search without hope that they’re actually going to find something.”
Closing the segment, Richard reflected on Madeleine’s parents not flying out to Portugal for the search. He said: “There’s been no word from Kate and Gerry McCann about this latest search but they recently did say that they wanted no stone to be left unturned. And that’s certainly what appears to be happening here right now.”
GMB viewers react
Meanwhile, some GMB viewers expressed on X how they feel the bill for the investigation has been ‘too high’.
One observer posted: “As much as I feel for #MadeleineMcCann’s family, I wonder how the families of the other thousands of children that go missing every year feel about the amount of money and resources being spent on this one particular case, albeit a unique one?”
A second added: “Many hope this is the last taxpayers’ money is spent on this. No other missing persons get this funding.”
And a third person claimed: “”
