Madeleine McCann's parents have been left "crushed, frustrated and devastated" after a new search for their daughter's body was called off after just three days.

RadarOnline.com can reveal Kate and Gerry McCann were kept very much kept up to date with developments and were informed about the search coming to an end before it was made public. Article continues below advertisement

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The decision to down tools also dashed German cops' hopes of nailing prime suspect Christian Brueckner to the case with DNA evidence.

Scores of painstakingly combed scrubland near Praia da Luz, Portugal, near to where the Brit tot vanished nearly nearly decades ago with JCBs, radar and fingertip searches, believing the tot or her pyjamas could hav

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