Rogerio Alves: Last News

Madeleine McCann have just 22 months to convict their prime suspect, according to the family’s lawyer.It will be a race against the clock for police investigating the 13-year mystery of what happened to the Brit youngster.The toddler was just three-years-old when she was taken from a holiday resort in Praia Da Luiz in Portugal.Lawyer Rogerio Alves said there is a 22-month window to secure a conviction because of a 15-year time limit on prosecutions in Portugal.Paedophile Christian Brueckner, 42, was sensationally named as the prime suspect earlier this year for the 2007 abduction.He is currently in jail in Germany for drug offences and the rape of a US woman in Portugal in 2005.Alves told ITV the time is getting short for police.He said:

Madeleine McCann may hear within days details of how their beloved daughter died.Kate and Gerry McCann's Portuguese lawyer is set to meet with senior German detectives involved in the high-profile disappearance this week. It comes after German authorities claimed to possess evidence which proves the missing Brit girl is dead and were treating new suspect, German national Christian Brueckner as a murder suspect.

Madeleine McCann's parents are begging German police to tell them why they suddenly think their daughter is dead, according to reports.Thirteen years after the four-year-old vanished from a resort in Portugal, detectives recently revealed that they believe Madeleine was killed - but don't know where her body is.Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist and child sex offender, is currently being investigated as the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance.But Kate and Gerry McCann have been left out of the loop as to why the case has suddenly been dubbed a murder rather than a missing persons investigation, MailOnline reports.