German prosecutor has ‘concrete evidence’ that Madeleine McCann is dead
- The development comes as police raised hopes in early June the mystery could be solved after they said they were investigating a 43-year-old man
- Madeleine went missing from her parents’ holiday home in Portugal in 2007
“It is concrete evidence, facts that we have, not mere indications,” Wolters said, adding that he was unable to disclose exact information.
“We have no forensic evidence of Madeleine’s death, such as a corpse,” he said.
Police raised hopes early in June that the mystery over the disappearance of three-year-old “Maddie” could finally be solved when they revealed they were investigating a 43-year-old man over her disappearance from the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.
The suspect, who was not named by police but identified as Christian B by German media, has a history of previous sex offences, including child sex offences and rape.
Prosecutors had said they were working on the assumption that Madeleine was dead, although authorities in Britain had continued to treat her disappearance as a missing persons case.