Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian B CHARGED with string of child sex offences and rapes in Portugal over 17 years | The Sun

A SUSPECT in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been charged with several sexual offences allegedly committed in Portugal at the time she went missing.

Christian B, 45, was charged by German prosecutors with three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of the sexual abuse of children, in offences spanning 17 years between 2000 and 2017.



The suspect, who was 30 at the time of Madeleine's disappearance, has twice been convicted of sex crimes against young girls.

He was named as an official suspect (arguido) in the missing Brit girl's disappearance in the Portuguese Algarve in April this year.

Madeleine, from Leicestershire, went missing from her bed in a holiday apartment in the resort of Praia da Luz on the evening of May 3, 2007, aged just three years old.

Christian B is due to face trial early next year.

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German prosecutors say the alleged offences he committed took place in Portugal between December 28, 2000, and June 11, 2017.

"The accused is the same person against whom charges were brought in connection with the disappearance of the then 3-year-old British girl Madeleine Beth McCann," the Braunschweig prosecutor's office said in a statement.

"Specifically, the accused is charged with three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of sexual abuse of children," the prosecutor's office added.

The office did not say the charges related to the McCann case.

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Among the charges Christian B is accused of is the rape of an elderly woman in her Portuguese holiday apartment some time in the early 2000s.

German prosecutors say he broke into her apartment in a mask, tied the woman and raped her before hitting her with a whip, recording the entire act on a video camera.

He is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 14-year-old German-speaking girl at his home in Praia da Luz within the same six-year time period in which the rape of the elderly woman reportedly took place.

Another 20-year-old Irish woman was allegedly raped at knifepoint after the suspect broke into her holiday apartment in Praia da Rocha, just a 35-minute drive from Praia da Luz.

He is also accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old German girl on April 7, 2007, less than a month before Madeleine's disappearance.

The prosecutor's office alleges that he approached the girl wearing just his shoes before assaulting her on a beach in Salema, just seven miles from Madeleine's Praia da Luz apartment.

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A final charge against Christian B relates to an incident on June 11, 2017, just after the 10-year anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.

He was arrested after allegedly pulling down his trousers and performing a sex act in front of an 11-year-old girl during a festival in Bartolomeu de Messines, around a 40-minute drive from Praia da Luz.


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