Overview
- The UK Home Office has approved an additional £108,000 for Operation Grange, extending the investigation into 2025-26.
- The Metropolitan Police's team currently consists of one detective chief inspector, one detective constable, and one police staff member.
- Prime suspect Christian Brueckner, serving a seven-year sentence in Germany for an unrelated crime, denies involvement in Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
- Brueckner was recently cleared of unrelated sex offence charges in Germany allegedly committed in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.
- Since its inception in 2011, Operation Grange has received over £13.2 million in funding and continues to support international efforts to uncover the truth.