Madeline McCann search analysis 'will take several weeks'

It volition instrumentality respective weeks to analyse materials gathered during a caller hunt successful the Madeleine McCann investigation, German authorities person told the BBC.

There had been bully crushed to scour the Arade reservoir country successful the Algarve, a German authoritative told the BBC.

Police successful Germany judge Christian Brueckner, a 45-year-old German national, killed the toddler.

He has ne'er been charged implicit Madeleine's disappearance and has denied immoderate engagement successful her May 2007 disappearance from a vacation analyzable astatine Praia da Luz connected the Algarve.

Brueckner is serving a situation condemnation successful Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old pistillate successful Praia da Luz, 2 years earlier Madeleine went missing.

Speaking to the BBC, Braunschweig authoritative Hans Christian Wolters said the German-led probe is ongoing retired of the nationalist oculus and has included different searches.

He said: "We enactment continuously connected this lawsuit but not everything we bash is made public. We continuously analyse and interview.

"There are repeated searches, not each of them are successful the oculus of the nationalist similar this 1 was. Much of what we're doing you won't notice."

Digging instrumentality and dogs were utilized to scour a peninsula jutting retired into the Arade reservoir from its occidental enactment this week.

The water is 31 miles (50km) from wherever Madeleine went missing portion connected vacation with her household successful Praia da Luz 16 years ago.

Brueckner is thought to person often stayed successful the area, which is known to person been utilized arsenic an unofficial camping spot, successful his Volkswagen T3 camper van.

Commenting connected the investigation, Mr Wolters said: "Nothing has changed with respect to our fishy successful the past 3 years. We person recovered thing successful the past 3 years that would contradict our suspicion.

"We haven't recovered thing which would exonerate him. We've recovered thing which would regularisation him out. We haven't yet disclosed each the grounds against him and we don't privation to bash that now.

"Of course, you tin rightly presume that wrong the past 3 years assorted pieces of the puzzle were added but it's not the close clip for america to people that."

German authorities person antecedently declined to accidental what triggered the caller hunt but said they were acting connected the ground of "certain tips".