FREE newsletter is packed with the best (and weirdest) stories from around the worldMadeleine McCann detectives missed crucial phone data that could have led to the investigation of the prime suspect years earlier, a former top detective has said.
German prisoner Christian Brueckner, a career criminal with a sordid history of child sex offences, is now the focus of the investigation. The 43-year-old, who was living near the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz where Madeleine vanished in 2007, received a half-hour phone call the evening she vanished.Jim Gamble, who acted as the senior child protection officer during the UK's initial McCann probe, argues that Portuguese cops did not initially examine the phone data.He told Daily Star Online:.
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