The Metropolitan Police has received more than 270 calls and emails since launching a new appeal about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell says Scotland Yard is “pleased” with the information coming into the incident room, and is assessing and prioritising the new leads.
On Wednesday night, details about the latest suspect in the little girl’s disappearance – named only as Christian B for legal reasons – was shared by British, German and Portuguese authorities.
In separate developments, it has been alleged that the 43-year-old German told a man in a bar that he was involved in Madeleine going missing from her bedroom during a family holiday in the Algarve in May 2007.
He also showed his companion a video of himself raping a 72-year-old American tourist in 2005.
Last December, he was convicted of that attack and jailed for seven years – and it has also been confirmed that he has previous convictions for child sexual abuse.
Public prosecutors in Germany have said that they believe Madeleine is dead, and police there are treating her disappearance as a murder investigation.
British police still consider the case as a missing person inquiry, because there is “no definitive evidence whether Madeleine is alive or dead”.
Madeleine vanished from her bedroom on 3 May 2007 while Kate and Gerry McCann were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz.
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