BRIT detectives hunting for Madeleine McCann are expected to search scrubland around a water treatment plant where a prime suspect worked.
Officers are due to start scouring the area four miles from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on Wednesday.
They are to concentrate on a derelict farmhouse and an abandoned well at the site.
Drug addict Euclides Monteiro, who Portuguese detectives suspect of involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, was working at the plant.
“Detectives in Portugal have made Euclides Monteiro their prime suspect in the mystery”
Mobile phone data analysis showed that he was nearby the night she disappeared.
Monteiro, who had served a jail term for burglary, died in a tractor accident aged 40 in 2009. His widow insists he had nothing to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.
Despite that detectives in Portugal have made him their prime suspect in the mystery.
He used to work at the Ocean Club resort, where the McCanns were staying, until he was sacked for theft.
The Brit police team led by Det Chief Insp Andy Redwood is taking a two-day break to coincide with a Portuguese holiday tomorrow.
They have spent six days digging at a hilly site close to the centre of the Algarve resort.
Detectives are to quiz a number of suspects, including three burglars, in the “very near future”
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