The new prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is a German convicted child sex offender who lived in a campervan near to where the three-year-old vanished.
Detectives investigating the case last night made the bombshell revelation that the 43-year-old prisoner was seen in the area around the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal, in the days and weeks before Madeleine went missing.
While Metropolitan Police have not named the man, he is described as white with short blond hair, possibly fair, and about 6ft tall with a slim build.
Madeleine was on holiday with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, and her twin siblings Sean and Amelie when she disappeared on May 3, 2007.
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