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Madeleine McCann investigators dig up German allotment

Police are searching the allotment in Hanover in connection with disappearance of the three-year-old.

Madeleine McCann investigators dig up German allotment — Madeleine McCann was three when she went missing during a family holiday. STV News

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28th Jul 2020

German police are searching an allotment in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Police began work at the site in Hannover on Monday and are expected to remain there on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Julia Meyer, a press spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig, confirmed that the activity was linked to the investigation, but would not comment further.

Police are digging up an allotment.

Pictures showed an excavator at the scene and officers using shovels.

Madeleine, whose dad Gerry is from Glasgow, was three when she went missing while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

German investigators suspect Christian B, 43, killed her soon after abducting her from a holiday apartment in the resort.

Parents Kate and Gerry McCann. <strong>Getty Images.</strong>”/></div><figcaption aria-hidden=true>Parents Kate and Gerry McCann. <strong>Getty Images.</strong> <cite class=hidden></cite></figcaption></figure><p>He is in jail in Germany for drug dealing, and is appealing against a conviction for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman, also at Praia da Luz.</p><p>He is a suspect in a string of unsolved crimes, reportedly including an attack on a ten-year-old British girl in the resort in 2005, one of a series of incidents where young girls were targeted.</p><p>German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who is leading the investigation, previously said prosecutors had “concrete evidence”, but not “forensic evidence” that Madeleine was killed by the suspect.</p><p>He said they may “know more” than Scotland Yard, who are still treating the case as a missing person investigation.</p><p>There has also been search activity in Portugal.</p><p>Earlier this month The Mirror reported that police and divers in the Algarve examined three disused wells around ten miles from Praia da Luz.</p><div class=

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