Madeleine McCann suspect ‘was miles away’ when she vanished from apartment
MADELEINE McCann investigators have hit a major stumbling block in building a case against their prime suspect.
They spoke to a new witness who claims to have been with Christian B just before and after the three-year-old vanished.
She insists the convicted rapist was calm and normal while she was with him and says the pair were stopped in a car by police who reported no suspicious activity
And she believes Christian B, 44, was miles from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on the day Madeleine was abducted.
Her evidence lends weight to suspicion that the case against the German is crumbling.
A source said: “This testimony could be an issue.”
Madeleine vanished from her parents’ holiday apartment in 2007 aged three.
German prosecutors named Christian B in June 2020, saying they were certain she was dead.
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Now, the woman, a German who was living in Portugal in 2007, has cast serious doubt over Christian B's involvement.
The source said: “She says she was not with him the day Madeleine disappeared but spoke with him and again said he seemed normal.”
Christian B, serving seven years in Germany for rape, is unlikely to go free before 2026.