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Madeleine McCann Documentary Set To Reveal Suspect's Movements With Mobile Phone Analysis

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Updated 11:10 8 Feb 2022 GMTPublished 09:57 31 Jan 2022 GMT

Madeleine McCann Documentary Set To Reveal Suspect's Movements With Mobile Phone Analysis

Creators of an upcoming documentary conducted 'on-site analysis' of phone records to track Christian B's movements.

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

An upcoming documentary about Madeleine McCann alleges prime suspect Christian B was 'no more than five minutes' away when she disappeared.

Christian B, who is currently serving a prison sentence for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman, was identified as a suspect in the McCann case in June 2020.

The then-three-year-old was on holiday with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, in Praia da Luz, Portugal when she disappeared in 2007, at which time Christian B was reportedly living in a camper van near the town.

Apartment where Madeleine McCann disappeared (Alamy)
Apartment where Madeleine McCann disappeared (Alamy)

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Further details about Christian B's movements are set to be revealed in the documentary, which airs on German television channel SAT.1 tonight, January 31, after evidence was gathered by its creators.

A 'reliable' witness is said to have told the documentary-makers that Christian B 'repeatedly worked' at the resort where McCann disappeared, while creators explained that a 'reconstruction' found that he was 'very familiar with the Ocean Club area in Praia da Luz'.

As part of their research, creators said they had conducted 'on-site analysis' of phone records and found 'Christian B and his cell phone must have been no more than five minutes away from the Ocean Club [apartments] on the night of the disappearance'.

The suspect had previously been found to have received a half-hour phone call to his mobile in Praia da Luz around an hour before McCann vanished, The Telegraph reports.

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Madeleine McCann parents (Alamy)
Madeleine McCann parents (Alamy)

Christian B has denied any involvement in McCann's disappearance, with a series of letters cited by the documentary arguing that he was a drug dealer at the time and was striving to avoid police attention.

Per The Independent, he wrote, 'I was never caught by the police because I followed a few key principles. Where possible, only driving during the day so that my battered ‘hippy bus’ didn't attract attention, only driving on the roads I needed to and, most importantly, never provoking the police. So that means not committing any crimes, certainly not abducting anyone.'

Christian B described the notion of abducting McCann as being 'just as absurd to [him] at the time as starting a nuclear war or slaughtering a chicken'.

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Madeleine McCann (Alamy)
Madeleine McCann (Alamy)

Juliane Ebling, editor-in-chief of SAT.1, has described McCann's story as one that has 'has many German facets', adding, 'The case is being tried at the Regional Court of Braunschweig, as the German Christian B. is the main suspect. In his environment there are many German women and men who can describe individual details surrounding the crime.'

Evidence gathered by the creators of the documentary has been handed over to police.

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Featured Image Credit: BILD/Alamy

Topics: Crime, Film and TV, True crime, no-article-matching

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is UNILAD Editorial Lead at LADbible Group. She first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route - before graduating with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University. Emily joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features. She went on to become Community Desk Lead, commissioning and writing human interest stories from across the globe, before moving to the role of Editorial Lead. Emily now works alongside the UNILAD Editor to ensure the page delivers accurate, interesting and high quality content.

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