World | Madeleine McCann Cops Dig Up Garden in Search for Madeleine McCann German suspect lived around 40 miles away By Rob Quinn Posted Jul 28, 2020 4:38 PM CDT Copied A German police officer walks with a search dog during an investigating at an allotment garden plot in Seelze, near Hanover, Germany, Tuesday July 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) An allotment garden near Hanover, Germany is being dug up in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, authorities have confirmed. Investigators could be seen at the site Tuesday guiding a sniffer dog around the garden and putting possible evidence into plastic bags, the AP reports. A man already serving a sentence for sex crimes in Germany was identified last month as a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the British 3-year-old in Portugal, where he lived for many years. Work at the site is expected to continue until Wednesday, reports the BBC. The 43-year-old suspect, identified by German media as Christian B, was last registered living in Braunschweig, around 40 miles away from Hanover. (Prosecutors believe the man could also be linked to the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl in 2015.) Read These Next Trump is calling out the 'arm of the Democratic party.' Trump fired a fed governor, but she says she's not leaving. Trump thinks "Department of War" sounds better. You know you're good when you get a high-five from your heckler. Report an error