Madeleine McCann: A timeline of events in disappearance as police identify new suspect
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Answers in the 13-year search for Madeleine McCann may be a step closer with the news that police have identified a German paedophile as a suspect. The suspect, who has previously been convicted for sexually abusing children, was living in Portugal when Madeleine disappeared in Praia de Luz, where he worked in catering, burgled holiday apartments and trafficked drugs. As investigators appeal for information on a campervan, car and mobile phone number linked to him that could be “critical” for the case, here is a timeline of the known events in Madeleine’s disappearance. 4 July 2013: Scotland Yard confirms it has launched its own investigation, Operation Grange, into Madeleine’s disappearance two years into a review of the case. 3 May 2019: Local media report Portuguese detectives are investigating a foreign paedophile as a suspect in the abduction of Madeleine McCann.