Prime Suspect: Last News

Madeleine McCann case has claimed her disappearance may have been a case of burglary gone wrong.Appearing on the ITV documentary Madeleine McCann: The Hunt For The Prime Suspect, Public Prosecutor for Braunschweig Hans Christian Wolters argued that her kidnapper may have grabbed her in a spur of the moment decision.Wolters believes she was taken by convicted German paedophile Christian Brueckner, the lead suspect in Maddie's disappearance.Speaking on the documentary, he said Brueckner had a record of breaking into holiday apartments in and around Praia da Luz, the Portuguese resort where Maddie, three, was staying with her family when she went missing.The prosecutor added that he may have taken the child on a whim after breaking into her

Oxford Mail.The actor is best known for his role as DCS Michael Kernan in the ITV show which he played opposite Helen Mirren.John leaves behind his wife of 31 years, Lilian, his son Freddie and his grandson Rex.According to the Daily Mail, John’s agent Markham, Froggatt & Irwin said he always brought a ‘truth and integrity to his roles and was an imposing, strong and rugged figure, with a soul and belief in his craft.’During his time as an actor, the 68-year-old appeared in over 70 TV shows including In The Name Of The Father and Speed Racer.Not only did he take on the roles of a more serious manner, but John was also seen in a number of comedic roles during his career which included Hippies as Dad alongside Simon Pegg and Sally Phillips,

Prime Suspect actor John Benfield has sadly died at the age of 68. The British TV star, whose real name was John Turner, is said to have battled a rare form of cancer and died at the Sobell House Hospice in Oxford on 16 June. John’s agents Marham, Froggatt and Irwin told the Oxford Mail that John always brought ‘truth and integrity to his roles and was an imposing, strong and rugged figure, with a soul and belief in his craft’. He is survived by his wife Lilian, son Freddie, and grandson Rex. The actor was best known for his role in ITV’s Prime Suspect in which he starred as Detective Chief Superintendent Michael Kernan alongside Dame Helen Mirren. Prime Suspect, which ran between between 1991 and 2006, focused on a no-nonsense female

ACTOR John Benfield, who played Helen Mirren’s boss in Prime Suspect, who has died of cancer at the age of 68. John, whose real name was John Turner, appeared as DCS Michael Kernan in the ITV show.