UK police identify new suspect in 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann

(CNN) — British police officers investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have identified a new suspect, 13 years after the three year-old vanished in Portugal.

McCann vanished while sleeping in her family’s holiday apartment in 2007, in a case that has since gained widespread media attention in the UK. She has never been found. There is a £20,000 (about $25,000) police reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for her disappearance.

The new suspect is a man currently imprisoned in Germany over an unrelated matter, the UK’s Metropolitan Police force said.

The force did not identify the man but described him as a 43-year-old white man. He lived periodically in southern Portugal’s Algarve region between 1995 and 2007, when McCann disappeared.

“He is connected to the area of Praia da Luz and surrounding regions, and spent some short spells in Germany,” the police statement said.

“It’s more than 13 years since Madeleine went missing and none of us can imagine what it must be like for her family, not knowing what happened or where she is,”

“Following the ten-year anniversary, the Met received information about a German man who was known to have been in and around Praia da Luz. We have been working with colleagues in Germany and Portugal and this man is a suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance,” Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell said in a statement Wednesday.

The police also revealed details of two cars that the suspect had access to and used around the time of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

They asked the public to come forward with any information on the vehicles. They also asked for information on two mobile phone numbers, one of which is believed to have been used by the suspect on the day of Madeleine’s disappearance.

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