Thomas Hertel, the former flatmate of Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner, says 'pieces of evidence must be somewhere' as the convicted paedophile 'kept all sorts of things'

Portuguese and German police were on Thursday wrapping up their search in Portugal's southern Algarve region for evidence related to the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann 18 years ago.

Police have concluded their three-day search for Madeleine McCann. German and Portuguese police and firefighters have combed an area on the outskirts of Lagos in Portugal 18 years after the three-year-old British girl disappeared. With officers seen shaking hands and embracing at the end of the search, it closed the book on the £300,000 operation.