A former police detective concerned within the Madeleine McCann case has accused Portuguese and German authorities of utilizing this newest investigation to “pin the blame” on their important suspect, Christian Brueckner.

Goncalo Amaral, who was kicked off the unique investigation in 2008 after suggesting Madeleine's mother and father Kate and Gerry have been liable for the then three-year-old's disappearance, spoke for the primary time since police this week started looking the Arade Dam, 35 miles from the resort of Praia da Luz the place the younger lady went lacking in 2007. 

The former detective accused the present investigators of “building the profile of a scapegoat” and fascinating in “virtual blaming” by the use of justifying the thousands and thousands of kilos spent on the case over 16 years. 

Mr Amaral instructed revered Portuguese news weekly Sabado: “The question should be how are the German police involved? How did the (Portuguese) Judicial Police agree to this and why?

“In simple analysis, I see that there is no new investigation, what is happening is an act of building the profile of a scapegoat and a virtual blaming.” 

He steered the search was aimed toward justifying the appreciable “time, money and human hours that have been invested” within the case by attempting to indicate the general public that “Brueckner must be guilty”. 

German authorities have steered they've proof that Brueckner, who's presently in jail for raping an aged girl, was concerned in Madeleine’s disappearance however they haven't offered something publicly. 

When requested what can be present in what's the third search of the reservoir, he mentioned: “If there was anything there, it would be possible to find bones, perhaps hair and even part of the missing girl's pyjamas.

“On the other hand, finding the child's remains would only be possible if she had not been cremated, as seems to have happened.”

In the interview, which got here as a joint police workforce from Portugal, Germany and the Metropolitan Police concluded their search,  Mr Amaral reiterated his principle that Brueckner was a “convenient scapegoat”.

He mentioned: “When British police began to consider Christian Brueckner as a suspect, he was living in Portugal and walking freely around.

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“The investigation should have focused on the individual through special techniques, namely telephone and computer interceptions, personal and electronic surveillance, undercover agents etc, in order to advance the investigation of the suspect's possible responsibility and subsequent death of the child.

“But astonishingly, the German police put him in a German jail, isolating him from the outside world, making any kind of investigation centred on the suspect impossible.

“Little by little, the Germans built up the suspect's profile as a rapist, paedophile and murderer, gathering similar Portuguese cases, accusing him of them, and then the great moment came and they named him to the world.

“In conclusion, they did not allow a professional and serious investigation and made this individual a scapegoat as a suspect without any evidence or proof.” 

Last 12 months the McCanns misplaced a prolonged 13-year court docket battle towards Mr Amaral for the claims he made in his two books which shamelessly steered they'd been concerned in her disappearance.

Amaral's 2008 e book Maddie: The Truth About The Lie, implicated the McCanns of their daughter's abduction and accused them of hiding her physique.

Police in Portugal ended the newest seek for clues relating to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann on Thursday.

Authorities gave no particulars in regards to the outcomes of the search. A press release by Portugal’s Judiciary Police mentioned some materials had been collected and can be handed over to German authorities for examination.