Reasons why madeleine mccann was abducted

It was also heading in a completely different direction The carrying style was completely different to that of the Tanner sighting And yet the McCann's deliberately altered the Smith sighting carrying style so as to match that of the Tanner sighting, during the only ever significant mention of the sighting, in a McCann made reconstruction aired only a few days after Amaral's in which he included the Smith sighting Gerry laughing and joking and sucking lollipops while one of the most significant abduction leads came to a climax Very little mention of the huge award available over the last three years Despite raising millions through their fund, and spending thousands on media monitoring, they continue to charge for travel kits and for printing off posters designed to help find their daughter Lack of physical searching during the first few days Hiring cowboy private detectives with no expertise or experience in finding children Gerry smirking when asked by a Sky News presenter how he feels when someone comes forward who is certain that they have seen Madeleine When up to 14 possible sightings of Madeleine emerged in Malta, resulting in a huge police operation including Interpol, the McCann's hot footed it to Germany for more TV plugs Gerry's initial claim, as overheard by another holidaymaker, within minutes of the alarm being raised, that Madeleine had been taken by paedophiles.

How did he know that? Gerry caught on Camera laughing his head off only a few days after his daughter had been abducted by paedophiles as claimed by the parents Kate refusing to answer 48 police questions The McCann's and their holiday friends all refusing to attend a police reconstruction Despite the Madeleine's disappearance looking like an inside job from the outset, the McCann's and their friends were happy enough returning their children to the MW creche just hours later, despite not knowing if any of the staff were involved When Kate raised the alarm, she ran back to the table, leaving the twins in the apartment while not knowing whether the abductor s were still onsite Kate shouting They've taken her!?

When describing Madeleine sleeping that night, Kate said she was under the covers where as Gerry mentioned that his daughter slept without the covers, as was normal Matthew Oldfield initially claimed that Kate and the children were at the tennis courts when he arrived there at David Payne's She was missing from her bed, while her younger siblings slept soundly beside her. Very quickly, the McCann parents became prime suspects in their daughter's disappearance.

And despite their tireless efforts over the past 13 years to find Madeleine, the couple still can't shake the constant rumours that they somehow played a hand in the tragedy. Now the case is back in the spotlight as British and German authorities are investigating a new suspect, a year-old German man called Christina Bruckner , who has previously been convicted of child sex abuse.

He is currently serving a "long" prison sentence "for an unrelated matter", German authorities said in June , and the suspect is now being investigation for the "possible murder" of Maddie McCann. Maddie's disappearance also faced renewed interest last year following the release of the Netflix documentary, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann. But the McCann family refused to be involved in the project, citing the ongoing police investigation into their daughter's disappearance.

We did not see and still do not see how this programme will help the search for Madeleine and, particularly given there is an active police investigation, could potentially hinder it," the statement read. Kate and Gerry McCann with a digitally-altered photo of what their daughter Maddie might look like now. Image: Getty. So why have the McCann's been unable to shake the accusations against them? We explore every single theory linking the parents to Madeleine's disappearance, so you can decide for yourself.

Kate and Gerry McCann were labelled as guilty very early on. During one of their first press conferences following Madeleine's disappearance, Kate and Gerry McCann were asked by a German radio reporter if the "finger of suspicion" was being pointed at them.

Kate McCann replied: "To be honest I don't actually think that is the case. He's German, aged 43, and what used to be called a drifter - flitting between Germany and Portugal for many years and working a variety of odd jobs when he wasn't committing crimes.

It's three months since the convicted paedophile, rapist and drug trafficker was identified as the latest suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, suspected of abducting and killing the little British girl who vanished 13 years ago during a family holiday in Portugal. The case against him is circumstantial - he is a convicted paedophile, he lived in the area, and on the night she disappeared, his mobile phone was in use nearby. The next day he changed the registration of one of his vehicles.

As investigators continue to search for the vital evidence they need to charge him with Madeleine's abduction, Christian B is now the subject of three new investigations in Portugal. I've covered the Madeleine McCann mystery since she disappeared. Over the years I've reported on various suspects, all of them eventually ruled out, but I wanted to find out, have they got the right man this time? I've travelled far and wide across Europe covering this case.

The first stop on my latest journey is Braunschweig in central Germany to meet the man in charge of the investigation into the connection between Christian B and Madeleine. Braunschweig prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters believes Madeleine is dead and Christian B killed her, though he won't reveal why he is so certain. But three months after he launched a global public appeal for new, vital clues, he still hasn't got enough evidence to charge him. At his office near the reconstructed medieval town centre, Mr Wolters said: "We have found nothing in the past three months to make us think we've got the wrong suspect, but the evidence we have now is the same we had when we made our first appeal on 3 June.

But there are some clues that make us hopeful our investigation will be more successful," he added. The German, British and Portuguese authorities have targeted Christian B for three years, since a criminal associate of his told police he had effectively confessed to him, in a bar conversation, that he had abducted Madeleine. But they've been unable to find forensic evidence that links the suspect to the victim, even though they have examined the VW camper van and Jaguar car he was driving at the time.

Mr Wolters said: "There is no forensic evidence, but it is not necessary to have forensics to charge our suspect. We just need more evidence, but I can't say what it is we are looking for though there are different possibilities. Maybe a witness, a photo or a video. He added: "Someone asked me if we had found Madeleine's clothes. If we had found something like that it would be great for our investigation, but it's not true. The prosecutor described as "speculative" a recent two-day dig at Christian B's former home outside Hanover, saying: "We are checking everywhere he lived and we know from his past that he liked to bury things like the USB computer sticks that were found in a previous investigation.

Mr Wolters said the Portuguese police had searched some wells on information supplied by the Germans and there had been other searches that were not publicised. The suspect is imprisoned km away in the port of Kiel, where he's nearing the end of a sentence for drug trafficking. His lawyer Friedrich Fulscher insists the prosecutor is wrong and Christian B isn't the man who abducted Madeleine, though he hasn't been shown the evidence against him.

We are very grateful to the police for their continued efforts. The story began when the McCanns - affluent doctors Kate and Gerry, their three-year-old daughter Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings - joined a group of seven family friends and their five children on holiday at the Ocean Club in the village of Praia da Luz on the south western tip of Portugal on 28 April The children were left behind sleeping in their respective apartments with the doors unlocked and a rota system in place among the parents to ensure that someone returned every half-hour to check on them.

Border police and airport staff were put on alert and hundreds of volunteers joined the efforts to find the missing girl over the coming days, the case fast becoming a sensation. The Portuguese authorities would later attract criticism over their conduct in the crucial earliest hours of the investigation when the trail might still have been warm, accused of making rudimentary mistakes like failing to conduct a house-by-house search of every local residence or interview all of the other guests at the resort, acting slowly to erect roadblocks and potentially compromising forensic evidence at the crime scene through carelessness and incaution.

Scotland Yard would later come to dismiss the sighting as a red herring. A local man, Robert Murat, subsequently became its first suspect and had his house and car searched, his swimming pool drained and his electronic devices confiscated but no evidence was found to link him to Madeleine and the matter was soon dropped.

By June, the Portuguese police admitted that they had failed to protect potentially useful evidence at the scene as frustration with the lack of developments grew and the media began to question whether the McCanns themselves had been involved in the matter.

Lurid tabloid allegations suggested the couple and their friends might have been swingers and that the McCanns, as physicians, might have been in the habit of sedating their children, while others claimed inconsistencies in their version of events.