Madeleine McCann new evidence - BREAKING NEWS

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A Senior German detective has told a court that investigators had found emails on a Hotmail account used by Christian Brueckner that linked him directly to the Madeleine McCann case.

However, the detective was unable to share details of the evidence as it was 'related to the killing' of Madeleine. Brueckner, the prime suspect, is currently on trial in Germany for unrelated sex crimes.

People definitely used their mobiles abroad in 2007. It was expensive though and there were special packages people bought before went away. Everyone had a phone but you wouldn't be using them constantly like now.

I think you would leave the sleeping kids and be running round yelling for the missing one. However if you knew they'd have enough meds they shouldn't be far or something worse had happened.

In 2007? Of course it was.

Depends on who your network provider was and whether you were PAYG or contract. I travelled a lot that year and left my phone at home each time because it wasn't worth the additional costs involved in taking it abroad.

“In 2006, when high roaming charge rates persisted the Commission proposed to intervene in the market by setting maximum rates at which mobile network operators could charge their subscribers. The proposed regulation was approved by the European Parliament and by the Council of Ministers, and came into law in June 2007. It required capping of retail and wholesale voice roaming charges from 30 August 2007, “

Madeleine disappeared in May 2007. So i am not sure that “of course it was” is correct.

That ignores the fact that people took phones but were just careful about using them. It was for emergency/ keeping in contact use or texting, which was cheap as long as you didn't send pictures.

My son and I used to do a European capital holiday every year without my husband. In 2007 he would have been 17. He had his own phone from about 13 or so - we definitely had mobile phones with us.

Ok dokey.

I think my original point was along the lines that it wouldn’t be “second nature” to have a phone in your pocket and to use it to call your spouse/friend whilst on holiday, i the way it might have been 5-10 years later.

I also know that panicking people don’t make the best decisions - so even if Kate and Gerry both had phones, her running out rather than staying out and phoning, isn’t “suspicious” to me.

I have never since I first got a mobile phone sometime in the last century not taken it with me when abroad.

You didn't need to use it but seems daft not to have it available if there were an emergency. If nothing else it would have contact numbers saved in it.

Even if she had a phone, she might not have had it on her when she went to check the children. I probably would have left my bag at the restaurant in that situation.

Yy Holly

Yes phones weren't a thing for contacting someone 5 minutes walk away like they are now. You'd have phoned home or work if abroad or phoned hotels/ taxis /emergency services/ insurance if needed.
The thing is looking for Maddie and getting your husband would have been priority. Even now with a phone I can't see much difference in actual response.

The issue is despite everyone claiming they were really close to the apartment the truth is even with a phone she still could have gone anywhere. They really weren't within line of sight or earshot or within a controlled environment of their kids. It wasn't the same as say, being in a hotel bar with your kids in the fourth floor.

Has anyone read the new book that came out very recently?

No and won’t be unless it’s accessible online for free like the last one. I wouldn’t want to support the creeps that use this incident as a way to make money with no regard for people who have already suffered beyond imagination.

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