Chilling admission from key McCann suspect

Christian B, 45, allegedly told a former friend-turned-police informer that “she didn’t scream” shortly after she disappeared in Portugal.

He has penned a series of letters while locked up behind bars protesting his innocence — that appear to be littered with clues, The Sun reports.

The convicted paedophile moaned about prison life and his seven-year sentence for rape in the scrawls, The Daily Mail reports.

He also attempted to clear his name while slamming the police investigation against him, branding it baseless.

In one chilling letter, he berated his former friend Helge Buschling who was serving a jail term in Greece for people trafficking.

The pair had become pals in Portugal in the early 2000s, before they locked horns over a botched drug deal and never spoke again.

Buschling was the first person to give police Christian B’s name in connection with Madeleine’s disappearance in 2017.

But Christian B has said his old friend organised a witch hunt against him and picked apart his key testimony in the Maddie case.

“The following sentences from the ‘witness’ Helge B in 2017 were responsible for all the public hunting and hatred against me by the German authorities,” he wrote.

The suspect then began directly quoting Buschling who discussed them being at a “hippy festival” in 2008 in Spain with witnesses Manfred Seyferth and Michael Tatschl.

“Manfred, Christian and I then started talking about Portugal. It was then Christian made a comment about the missing girl,” the letter read.

“Christian asked me if I was still going to Portugal, I replied, ‘I’m no longer going to Portugal because there are too many problems there. Portugal has too many police for me on account of the missing child. It is indeed strange that she disappeared without a trace.’

“Christian replied, ‘Yes, she did not scream.’”

Christian B refused to even refute the claims in the letter, instead writing, “It’s not even worthy of comment.”

He then went on to allege that he had fallen out with Buschling the year before after he noticed he had missold him drugs.

The letter continued, “In 2007 Helge B sold one kilo of hashish to me and when I arrived in Germany with it, I saw it was only 750g. After that he wasn’t existing for me anymore [sic].

“There wasn’t any conversation in 2008. Not even Manfred existed for me anymore after this.

“The point is that the main leader of all the investigations Helge B, who came free a long time before the regular end of his prison in Greece.”

Reports circulated in 2017 suggesting that Buschling had been released early so he could meet cops from Scotland Yard to discuss Maddie’s disappearance.

According to an internal Greek police report, Busching’s information was described as “given voluntarily and without monetary or other consideration”.

It added that it had been “cross-checked and is considered a reliable source”. It also revealed how Busching had tried to report his concerns to the Portuguese police but had been fobbed off.

The report also detailed how Busching was in custody at the time after three migrants were found in his car at Igoumenitsa in Greece.

When The Sun tracked him down to Corsica in September 2020, he said of Christian B, “One word. Guilty.”

Busching and Seyferth helped convict Christian B for the rape and torture of a 73-year-old in Praia da Luz in 2005.

Christian B and Seyferth regularly broke into apartments there.

The American victim told cops her attacker filmed the attack and appeared to get a thrill out of seeing her begging him to stop.

Busching and Seyferth are said to have stolen a video camera in Christian B’s home while he was in jail for theft. They contacted police after seeing the images and told them it was Christian B.

However, the camcorder has never been recovered by authorities.

Cops are now turning their focus to the Algarve village where Christian B lived amid hopes it may hold “vital clues”.

The Sun revealed earlier this week that German detectives believe there could be at least two other areas to scour for evidence

Now it has emerged that one of these areas is rural Foral — where Christian B used to live in the months after Maddie’s disappearance.

The village is a 50-minute drive from Praia de Luz, where three-year-old Maddie vanished in 2007.

She went missing from her bed in an Algarve holiday apartment, sparking a massive international manhunt and would become the world’s most well-known missing child case.

No trace of her has ever been found and no one has ever been formally charged over her disappearance.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission