German Police are searching a garden allotment in the northern city of Hanover in connection with the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, prosecutors said.

German Police are searching a garden allotment in the northern city of Hanover in connection with the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, prosecutors said.
“I can confirm that the search is being carried out in connection with our investigations into the Maddie McCann case,” Brunswick prosecutor Julia Meyer told AFP, when asked about the move first reported by local newspaper Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Police raised hopes in June that the mystery over the 2007 disappearance of the three-year-old girl could finally be solved when they revealed they are investigating a 43-year-old German man in relation to the case.
German police said the child sex offender may have kidnapped Madeleine after breaking into her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal.
Christian Hoppe, from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), said the suspect is serving a prison sentence for a sex crime and has two previous convictions for “sexual contact with girls”.
Madeleine vanished on 3 May 2007 during a family holiday in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz. 
German public prosecutors have said they believe she is dead.