Madeleine McCann

German prosecutors today asked for a 15-year sentence for the main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who is on trial for a series of sex crimes in a separate proceeding from the investigation into the little British girl.

It is a mystery that has gripped the British imagination, and terrified parents, for ten years.

Madeleine McCann vanished from her parents' Ocean Club hotel complex in the Portuguese Algarve on the evening of May 3 2007 while they were eating nearby. She had never been seen since.

Australian police found a child’s skeletal remains in a suitcase dumped on the side of a highway in Adelaide, South Australia. A passer-by found the remains on July 15.