German prosecutors reportedly refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.
Portuguese authorities demanded an investigation into a British man and his German wife after his UK-based sister tipped off cops she thought he could be covering up a dark secret about Maddie's disappearance.
But German authorities rejected a Portuguese request to use an undercover police officer with a fake identity to try to befriend the female suspect and firm up their suspicions she was driving a car that hit Madeleine while under the influence of alcohol, Portuguese daily Correio da Manha claimed today.
Saying the British sister of the unnamed man it put at the centre of a new theory about Madeleine's May 3 2007 disappearance tipped off police in the UK in 2018, it said: 'German prosecutors were asked to authorise a covert police operation with someone posing as a friend of the woman's and trying to get her to confess, but the courts refused.
'It was decided to continue solely with the investigation into suspect Christian Brueckner, rejecting other possibilities.'
