Madeleine McCann Suspect Claims He has Alibi which can be Backed by Woman

Christian B, who is suspected of abducting Madeleine McCann, has claimed that he has an alibi which can be backed up by a young woman.Christian B said that he was engaging in sexual intercourse with a young woman in his camper van at the time McCann is said to have been kidnapped.

The suspect, who is known as Christian B under German privacy laws, said he drove the woman to the Faro airport in Portugal for a flight home the next day. They were stopped and photographed at a police roadblock. She was arrested at airport security for carrying an illegal pepper spray and later appeared in court.

The German drifter believes that Portuguese police must have a record of those events that will establish his relationship with the young German woman who was on holiday with her parents.German police found a photograph of the woman lying in his camper van during their investigation into a rape for which Christian B, 44, is now serving a seven-year jail sentence in Germany.When he first claimed he had an alibi to the police, he could not recall the woman's full name.

It is now understood that he has since been able to identify her.If found true, the alibi would contradict vital evidence that police had collected. There was evidence from mobile phone data masts that police say puts him close to the apartment from where McCann vanished from her bed 15 years ago in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007.The suspect's mobile phone was in the village when it received a call from 7.32pm to 8.02pm.

McCann's parents said she disappeared between 9 and 10pm. Christian B insists that by 10pm he had driven miles along the coast east towards Faro.German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said: "I assume if he has anything that exonerates him that sooner or later he will share it with us and we would then check it out. What happens then, let's see. So far he has told us nothing, he's given us no alibi. So, we can only work on the evidence we have found so far in our investigation. And there was nothing to exonerate him."