Joining us on this week’s episode is journalist Robbyn Swan, author of Looking for Madeleine and who featured in the Netflix series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann, to look over the history of the investigation. Are police making progress? Who is the suspect who has been linked to the case?

Portuguese police confirmed the search concluded today and materials had been sent to Germany for testing.

Officers spent hours cutting back the undergrowth at Barragem do Arade today.

McCann was three years old when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in 2007

The reservoir is 50km from where the toddler went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal 16 years ago.

Prosecutors in other regions of Germany where the suspect lived must now decide whether to pursue the charges and stake a claim to jurisdiction.

The three-year-old vanished during a family holiday to Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 2007.

Convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner was declared a suspect in the case by Portuguese officials last month.

The convicted sex offender was declared an official suspect by Portuguese authorities last month.

Kate and Gerry McCann wrote that although “uncertainty creates weakness”, they need closure on what happened to the toddler in 2007.

Madeleine went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.

A post with the words ‘we love you and we’re waiting for you’ appeared on the campaign’s Facebook page.

Kate and Gerry McCann said their missing daughter’s 18th birthday and the global pandemic have made this year even harder for the family.

The Brunswick prosecutor confirmed it today.

Maddie McCann went missing in Portugal in 2007 while on holiday with her family.

The search in Hanover was linked to an investigation in which a 43-year-old man is a suspect.

Police are using excavators, sniffer dogs, shovels and rakes to investigate the plot.

A garden allotment in the northern German city of Hanover is being searched, prosecutors said.

Irish woman Hazel Behan, now aged 37, was viciously assaulted by a stranger in her Portuguese apartment 16 years ago.

The Mirror reported that police and divers in the Algarve region examined three disused wells on Thursday.

Three-year-old “Maddie” disappeared from the Portuguese holiday resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.

Kate and Gerry McCann said reports are causing “unnecessary anxiety to friends and family and once again disrupted our lives”.

A suspect in the case, who is currently serving a prison sentence, has been named as Christian Brueckner.

Carola Titze (16) was found dead in July 1996 in the resort town of De Haan on the Belgian coast.

Christian Brueckner has been linked to the disappearance of two children in 1996 and 2015.

The German national was 30 years old when three-year-old Madeleine vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

The suspect has been described as a “sexual predator” who has in the past been convicted of crimes against children.

Her parents Kate and Gerry said they will “never give up hope” of finding their daughter alive.

Her parents say they haven’t lost hope of finding her.

The pair have spoken to the BBC to mark 10 years since the disappearance of their daughter.

A former investigator made the claims in a book about her disappearance.

Madeleine would turn 13 next month.

It is Kate and Gerry McCann’s ninth Christmas without their daughter.

That number has been cut from 29.

Police have dismissed the speculation as ‘attention seeking’.

A 67-page dossier detailing malicious internet postings has been sent to the Commissioner in Scotland Yard, according to the news channel.

The McCann’s are suing former police chief Goncalo Amaral for libel.

Around 20 investigators spent today scouring two areas either side of a highway on the outskirts of the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

At least three “mostly Portuguese” suspects are to be questioned.