‘Currently no prospect’ of Madeleine McCann suspect facing charges, German prosecutor says
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Suspect Christian B is set to be released from prison on unrelated charges in September, prosecutor says. There is currently no prospect of the suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance facing charges, the German prosecutor investigating him has admitted.
![[Christian B was acquitted on unrelated charges in October]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/10/08/10/SEI224140409-%281%29.jpg)
It emerged in 2020 that prosecutors in Germany were investigating a man named locally as Christian B in connection with the murder of the British child, who vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Algarve while on holiday with her family in May 2007.
Christian B had been known to authorities, but did not become a suspect until information was received as a consequence of a 2017 appeal, according to Scotland Yard, which still considers the case a missing person inquiry because there is no “definitive evidence whether Madeleine is alive or dead”.
![[Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine disappeared from a holiday flat in Portugal in 2007]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/07/25/19/2f13ac4baa97a744ad4baad0a334e3a2Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzIyMDE2OTE0-2.31122940.jpg)
German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who has been leading the investigation, told the BBC in 2020 that he believed the public would reach the same conclusion over Christian B’s alleged involvement if they “knew the evidence we had”, but has never made this alleged evidence public.
However, Mr Wolters has now warned that there is no current prospect of Christian B facing an indictment, as he admitted that he is still trying to find forensic evidence linking him to Madeleine’s disappearance. “There is currently no prospect of an indictment in the Maddie case,” Mr Wolters told Sky News. “As things stand, the accused Christian B’s imprisonment will end in early September.”.
