A MET Police detective has told how the Madeleine McCann case was blown open by a voicemail on a Scotland Yard answer machine.
DC Mark Draycott revealed they had a phone tip off about Madeleine and convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the three-year-old's 2007 disappearance.
The May 2017 call to Scotland Yard came from Brueckner's ex-friend Helge Busching, a court heard.
Busching knew the German in the Algarve in the mid 2000s. He said when they discussed Madeleine, Brueckner told him: "She did not scream."
DC Draycott, 49, has been on Operation probing Grange, Madeleine's case, since its launch in 2011. He told the court in Braunschweig, Germany: "On May 18, I checked the answer phone and there was a message.
"It was from a male by the sound of his voice, he spoke good English and he asked to speak to David Edgar [private investigator].
"He said he had information and he left a Greek mobile number.
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