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Kate and Gerry chose not to attend Friday nights church prayers but instead escaped on a secret much needed break to stop being photographed by supporters and invited media.

According to British expat Ken Ralphs - who knew Christian Brueckner during his time in the Algarve - the German criminal was working cash-in-hand at the Ocean Club restaurant.

A FORMER Portuguese detective who attacked Madeleine McCann’s parents in a Netflix documentary has started a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence.

Paulo Pereira Cristovao, a long-time critic of Kate and Gerry McCann who angered them with a controversial book about the mystery, is behind bars at a jail 140 miles north of the Algarve.

As prosecutors try to connect Madeleines disappearance to the reservoir Bruckner once frequented 30 miles away, MailOnline recaps the events around her disappearance.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann locked down a remote Algarve reservoir with a no-fly zone overhead today as they prepared to search for signs of the missing girl.

Amelie McCann spoke publicly for the first time tonight as her family marked the anniversary of Maddies disappearance. She said: Its nice that everyone is here together but its a sad occasion.

A WOMAN who claimed to be the missing Madeleine McCann has had her theory debunked after receiving the results of a DNA test.Julia Wandelt, 21, took t

Everyone recognised her face. She had blonde hair and hazel eyes with a distinctive smudge on her right iris.
Her images were plastered all over lamp posts

What happened to Madeleine McCann and who might have been responsible has never been answered. But as the anniversary of the day she went missing looms, there are fears a statute of limitations may mean the case will remain unsolved.