Police officers from Scotland Yard attended ‘secret’ meeting in Portugal to work out where Madeleine McCann could be buried

Madeleine McCann 

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Police officers from Scotland Yard have attended a “secret” meeting in Lisbon with their Portuguese and German counterparts to work out where Madeleine McCann could be buried, reports claim.

The forces met to pore over the details of suspect Christian Brückner’s life in the Algarve around the time when the young girl went missing, with reports suggesting that German police may travel to Praia da Luz for “one last roll of the dice” in their investigation.

Christian Bruckner the alleged murderer of Maddie McCann

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According to Portuguese daily Correio da Manha the meeting took place “recently” at the Lisbon HQ of the Policia Judiciaria.

“Wells and ditches have been looked at with a fine tooth comb, but no signs of the remains of the missing girl have been found,” the Portuguese officers are said to have told the British police.

The abandoned wells in question are a 15-minute drive from Brückner’s rented cottage on the outskirts of Praia de Luz, on a narrow road leading down to a beach where the he used to park his VW camper van.

The VW T3 Westfalia camper van which police mention in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

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While the Metropolitan police still treat Madeleine’s disappearance 13 years ago as a missing persons inquiry, German police are calling it a murder investigation.

Both forces are continuing to try to gather information on convicted paedophile and rapist, Christian Brückner, who is currently in a jail in Germany on drugs charges.

“They regard it as essential to work out his routine in 2007, when Madeleine disappeared and Brückner was living near the Ocean Club where she vanished from,” the paper said.

It was also reported that German police want to return to the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz as part of a “final roll of the dice” in their investigation.

The claim followed German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters’ admission that without new clues, the 43-year-old will never be charged over Madeleine’s disappearance.

His lawyers insist he is innocent. The Metropolitan police were contacted for comment.