The parents of Madeleine McCann face a tense wait for the results of the search for their daughter at a reservoir in the Algarve, as a retired Portuguese detective who previously led on the case claimed that it was a sham and waste of resources. German prosecutor Christian Wolters, whose force requested the operation, said there would be a period of silence in the event of significant evidence being discovered during the three-day excavation at the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir. In a statement, Wolters said that as “the accused has not yet had access to the files”, the authorities would not yet publish any new evidence that might implicate Christian Brückner, a convicted rapist who is the prime suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance. The joint Portuguese and German operation, in which the Metropolitan police had an observing role, was the biggest search for a decade into the then three-year-old’s disappearance on 4 May 2007 and followed the German police’s claim that they believe she is dead and that Brückner, 45, was responsible. The operation had …

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