Family fear Madeleine McCann suspect involved in 2015 disappearance of girl, 5, dubbed ‘Germany’s Mad

MADELEINE McCann's murder suspect may have been involved in the 2015 disappearance of a girl dubbed 'Germany's Maddie', her family claimed today.

Christian B, 43, was yesterday unmasked as the prime suspect in the British child's disappearance in Praia da Luz, Portugal 13 years ago.

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We are now able to show his picture in full in the UK after it was published in a major German newspaper - as cops in both countries appeal for anyone who knows him to come forward.

Prosecutors in Germany are investigating Christian B "on suspicion of murder" and believe Madeleine is dead and know how she was killed - despite no body being found.

The bombshell development has now sparked concerns he may have snatched five-year-old Inga Gehricke in May 2015.

She disappeared in woods during a family barbecue in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, some 50 miles from Berlin.

It's been claimed the convicted sex offender was in the region at the time of her disappearance, reports Bild.

A lawyer for Inga's family has now raised concerns the Madeleine suspect was nearby when Inga vanished.

Petra Küllmei told Volksstimme: "Just a day before Inga disappeared ...Christian B had a documented parking lot number on the A 2 near Helmstedt."

The rest area is less than 60 miles from the spot where Inga disappeared near Schönebeck.

And according to the new reports he had no alibi for the day of Inga's disappearance.

Küllmei added: “The file was closed again only four weeks after starting work. I think that's not very ambitious."

According to reports from Germany, Christian B's house was searched by cops in February 2016 as part of the Inga inquiry.

The news comes amid claims the career criminal may have staked out the McCann family apartment for four days before she vanished.

New photos and details about German paedophile Christian B match the description of a mystery man spotted nearby at least four times.

Suspicious members of the public had told police about a blond male with a pockmarked face, but he was never found.

The convicted paedo, who is currently behind bars, has spent his life in and out of prison since his first crime aged 17.

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He is also known to have been carrying out burglaries on holiday villas and apartments at the time and had been living at a run-down shack nearby.

A source said: “These sightings have been a mystery for years and have been the subject of numerous police appeals.

“With a suspect now in custody it seems like they may have finally been solved.”

Christian B is currently in prison and was last year sentenced to seven years for the rape of an American woman in Praia da Luz in August 2005, and has a number of previous convictions including one for sexually abusing a child.

Police in Germany fear the drifter, who stole from hotels in Praia da Luz, may have snatched Madeleine after first entering the holiday home to raid it.

He was living in a campervan in Praia da Luz in Portugal around the time the three-year-old vanished on May 3, 2007.

As well as the campervan, the drug dealer and burglar also been linked to a 1993 Jaguar XJR6 with a German number plate seen in Praia da Luz and surrounding areas in 2006 and 2007.

On May 4, 2007 - the day after Madeleine vanished - he got the Jaguar re-registered in Germany under someone else's name although it is believed the vehicle remained in Portugal.

German police believe one of the two vehicles were used in the disappearance of Madeleine.

He also took a mysterious 30-minute phonecall just one hour before the disappearance and had also rented two homes in Portugal just miles from the Ocean Club where Madeleine was staying.

The suspect's extensive rap sheet includes sex attacks on kids, indecent images, sexual coercion, theft and breaking and entering, reports Bild.

He was first convicted aged just 17 in Bavaria in 1994 for “abusing a child” and “performing sex acts in front of a child”.

Christian B was first thrust into the frame in 2017 after allegedly confessing to abducting Madeleine in a bar.

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He was reportedly chatting to the friend in Germany when a TV report came on about the tenth anniversary of the girl's disappearance and he suggested he knew what had happened to her.

German sources claim he boasted he had "snatched her" but didn’t say he had killed her.

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