A witness claims she spotted Madeleine McCann getting into a German-owned Volkswagen van with a man weeks after her disappearance.
The youngster emerged from a restaurant in the Spanish seaside town of Alcossebre before climbing into the van with an unidentified man, according to police files.
The sighting was one of dozens in the early weeks of her disappearance but since German paedophile Christian Brueckner was identified as the main suspect in the case this week, detectives are now reportedly investigating the witness' claim.
The sighting happened in the Spanish seaside town, some 600 miles from Praia da Luz, Portugal, where McCann vanished in May 2007.
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