I tipped off cops about Maddie suspect Christian Brueckner’s ‘special place’ he visited ‘alone’ for ‘a week at a time’

A WOMAN quizzed by British cops final month over Madeleine McCann has revealed she tipped off police in regards to the prime suspect’s “particular place” two years in the past.

Elke Piro’s revelation about paedo pal Christian Brueckner sparked a seek for lacking Madeleine’s physique in Portugal in 2023.

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They discovered no proof on the Arade Dam, simply 30 miles from the place the woman, then aged three, vanished from the resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.

Specialist search groups backed by canine and drones excavated a website the place Brueckner, 48, would spend days alone in his VW camper van.

German nationwide Elke, 69, and husband Bernhard, 72, knew Brueckner for years and infrequently let him keep in his van at their distant Algarve residence.

The gran informed The Solar on Sunday: “Christian beloved the lakeside space across the dam and known as it his particular place.

“He would disappear for every week at a time and once I requested the place he had been, he would typically say he’d been alone on the Arade Dam. After I came upon he was a suspect within the Maddie case I informed the police how a lot he beloved it there they usually had been very .

“He described a exact space with rocks main right down to the water and I used to be in a position to pinpoint it precisely to the police — and that’s the place they searched.

“Christian would reside there for days in his camper van and I believed he might have taken Maddie there.

“I used to be in a position to direct them to the precise spot he described and hoped that it may need helped them discover some hint of Maddie — nevertheless it wasn’t to be.”

The Piros had been quizzed by Scotland Yard officers who flew to Portugal.

Detectives from the Met Police’s Operation Grange workforce have now taken a lead position within the case from German officers.

Brueckner final stayed with the Piros in 2016 for a month when he was on the run from the German police.

In 2019, his VW camper van was seized by Portuguese cops in Mr Piro’s breaker’s yard and have become the main focus of police appeals when Brueckner was named because the Madeleine prime suspect in 2020.

Met commissioner Mark Rowley not too long ago declared Brueckner was their foremost suspect and hinted at strikes to extradite him to the UK to face trial.

Brueckner stays in hiding at a secret handle in Germany following his launch on the finish of a seven-year jail time period for raping a US pensioner in 2005.

No costs have been introduced in opposition to him over Madeleine and he has insisted he has nothing to do along with her disappearance.

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