Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are to hold out new searches of a reservoir, Sky News understands.

Officers will begin work on Tuesday on the Arade dam, which is situated about 50km from the place the British toddler went lacking in Praia da Luz within the Algarve, 16 years in the past.

British police can even be current in the course of the search, in response to Portuguese media studies.

The investigation of the location reportedly comes on the request of German police, who introduced in June 2020 that they believed Madeleine was dead and that suspect Christian B was probably accountable.

The convicted little one abuser and drug seller used to go to the reservoir, it's claimed.

Christian B is at present in jail for raping a 72-year-old girl in the identical space of the Algarve area from the place Madeleine went lacking, however has not been charged with any crime associated to the disappearance.

He has all the time denied involvement.

A German court docket final month threw out additional rape and sexual offence charges towards Christian B that weren't linked to the McCann case.

He had been accused of three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of sexual abuse of kids in Portugal between December 2000 and June 2017.

However the court docket in Braunschweig dominated it had no jurisdiction within the case.

Lawyer Friedrich Fulscher mentioned the choice meant court docket authorities couldn't have jurisdiction over any potential case about Madeleine both. The court docket didn't touch upon his declare.

Madeleine was aged three when she went lacking throughout a vacation along with her household.

Last yr, on the fifteenth anniversary of her disappearance, Madeleine's dad and mom said it was "essential" to learn the truth of what occurred to their daughter.

Kate and Gerry McCann additionally marked Madeleine's 20th birthday in February with a vow that they might "never give up" the seek for her.