Madeleine McCann mystery will NEVER be solved due to missing CCTV, ex-detective claims – The Sun

MADELEINE McCann will never be found and her case is unsolvable due to a single CCTV camera not working in the resort where she vanished, a former top cop says.

Ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas, 49, now an investigative journalist who helped expose paedophile Jimmy Savile's crimes, believes the three-year-old British girl was taken by an opportunistic criminal."

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Maddie disappeared in 2007 from her holiday apartment in Praia da luz, Portugal, while her parents Kate and Gerry dined nearby.

In his new book Hunting Killers, Mark believes the case is unsolvable because of a crucial CCTV camera not working in the resort.

He writes: The abduction of Madeleine McCann is one Id put into the unsolvable category.

The case hasnt been solved simply because a crucial CCTV camera was turned off, meaning that whoever took Madeleine was not identifiable at the scene.

Mark, who has worked on many missing persons cases, believes the child walked out of the holiday flat and into the path of a predator.

He said: I believe Madeleine was the victim of an opportunistic criminal whose act was random she wandered out of the apartment and into the path of this person.

The ex-cop says that while he hopes there can be some kind of resolution in the long-running case the statistics show that it will likely never be solved.

He writes: The sad reality is, this far on, the likelihood of Madeleine being alive now is incredibly slim.

Unfortunately, in almost every case of stranger child abduction, within the space of 24 hours the child is dead.

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Maddie's mum Kate has previously disputed the possibility her daughter was taken after wandering off or suffered a fatal accident - a theory first probed by the Portuguese police.

In her harrowing 2011 book about her daughter's disappearance, she stated: I have always found the third suggestion insulting to our intelligence.

Obviously, the police are obliged to consider all possible scenarios but there was no doubt in our minds that Madeleine had not left the apartment on her own accord.

"There was no way a three-year-old would have been able to raise the shutters and open the window in the childrens room.

"To give any credence whatsoever to that idea that Madeleine could have walked out on her own you would have to accept that she had gone out the back way, pulling aside the sitting room curtains and drawing them again, then opening the patio doors, the child safety gate at the top of the stairs on the veranda and the little gate to the road - and carefully closing all three behind her.

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What three-year-old do you know who would do that? And we knew our Madeleine. She simply would not wander off like this.

"The theory was not only insulting it was, much more importantly, frighteningly damaging to the chances of finding Madeleine quickly."

Operation Grange, a Scotland Yard probe into the case which began in 2011, has previously said they believe Maddie was snatched or taken during a burglary gone wrong.

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