Police have concluded their three-day search for Madeleine McCann. German and Portuguese police and firefighters have combed an area on the outskirts of Lagos in Portugal 18 years after the three-year-old British girl disappeared. With officers seen shaking hands and embracing at the end of the search, it closed the book on the £300,000 operation.

The prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance has gloated he will never be convicted if the police can’t find the missing Brit’s body.