Police say they have "seized a number of items" after last week's search in connection with missing Madeleine McCann. which they will now analyse. Investigators spent three days last week searching the surrounding area of the Arade dam and reservoir, about 30 miles from Praia da Luz in Portugal — where Madeleine was last seen alive just before her fourth birthday in 2007.
German police have said today they cannot confirm whether the items taken from their dig in Portugal are connected to the disappearance of Madeleine but they have appealed for more time to assess them. Detectives from the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, spent days searching land next to the Arade Dam last week.
They used sniffer dogs, radar and search teams to scour the location just 31 miles from where three-year-old Maddie vanished in 2007. Named suspect Christian Brueckner, 45, currently in prison in Germany, once referred to the location as his "little paradise".
