Police to probe clairvoyant’s claim of exact burial location for Madeleine McCann

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are reportedly set to look into a clairvoyant’s oddly specific claim.

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are reportedly set to probe a clairvoyant’s claim she is buried in a forest just 10 kilometres from where she vanished.

Michael Schneider, who has successfully located the remains of several missing people, has given police the exact coordinates of where he thinks her body is in Portugal.

He contacted the BKA - Germany’s equivalent of the FBI - three weeks ago with the details.

They allegedly replied saying: “Your ­information will be appropriately incorporated into our work.”

German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters told the Sunday People his officers have used clairvoyants - people who claim to have supernatural abilities - to aid other cases.

Madeleine disappeared during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007, when she was three-years-old.

German prosecutors have claimed to have evidence Madeleine is dead, but her parents Kate and Gerry have said they “will never give up hope of finding her alive”.

Schneider, 50, said: “I do not give out such information lightly and without constantly questioning myself because I am very well aware of the responsibility of what I do.”

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Madeleine McCann remains missing.

He added: “I am happy that the BKA seem to be taking me seriously.

“Often you have a reputation as a freak or someone just trying to squeeze money out of someone, and this is quite hurtful. I never take money.”

He said he looks at a photo of a missing person and asks himself “upwards towards God whether this living being is alive or dead”.

He then runs his fingers and eyes over an atlas, Google Maps and Google Earth “until they stop on a spot”.

Using this technique last month he helped police locate a missing woman, who was found hanging from a tree, within 36 hours.

Schneider was also able to pinpoint exactly where murdered couple Peter Neumair, 63, and Laura Perselli, 68, would be found after they vanished from their home in Bolzano, Italy, in January.

The prime suspect in Madeleine’s case is convicted paedophile Christian B, 44, who was identified last year.

But he has been under police investigation for her disappearance for four years, reports Sky News.

A handout picture taken in 2018 and released by Italian Carabinieri shows Christian B. Picture: AFP

Last year, Scotland Yard revealed they had a new prime suspect, and appealed for details on his movements or from people he knew.

Although he was not named, it emerged to be Christian B - a prolific burglar, who has previous convictions for sex crimes against young girls.

Mr Wolters said authorities had been looking for information on him for a long time and “had already built up a fact file on him before we asked the public to help us”.

“By that time Christian B had been under investigation already for three years. We did not take the decision to go public lightly,” Mr Wolters said, reports Sky.

She vanished from her family's apartment. Picture: AFP

This story was originally published by The Sun and was republished with permission.