Madeleine McCann murder suspect investigated for a second missing child case
ABCGerman prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether a 43-year-old man who has emerged as a possible suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal may have been involved in a similar crime in Germany. Key points: A five-year-old German girl went missing in 2015 from a forest roughly 100km away from the suspect's home The suspect is currently in a German prison Authorities believe the suspect may have murdered missing British girl Madeleine McCann Prosecutors in the northern town of Stendal, 100 kilometres west of Berlin, told the DPA news agency they had opened a preliminary investigation to determine whether there was anything to link the suspect to the 2015 disappearance of a five-year-old girl from a nearby forest. German authorities this week said they had identified the 43-year-old German citizen as a suspect in the McCann case and are investigating him on suspicion of murder. The suspect, who is currently in prison in Germany, spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz around the time of McCann's disappearance, and has two previous convictions for "sexual contact with girls", authorities said.