Court sides against Madeleine McCann suspect in rape appeal bid

The UK's Metropolitan Police maintain their active investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, Operation Grange, is a missing person inquiry as there is no “definitive evidence whether Madeleine is alive or dead”.

A European court has sided against the suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in his bid to overturn a rape conviction.

German investigators believe Christian Brueckner, 43, killed Madeleine, then three, after abducting her from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007.