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Police have spent the last two days searching for clues in a private garden between Hanover and Seelze-Letter, but are being urged to turn their attention to another possible cellar 40 miles away. The second site is in Braunschweig where the 43-year-old convicted sex offender lived for three years.

Residents are now asking the police to carry out a similar excavation at the new location.

The isolated single-storey building, in a garden, resides at the end of a track and close to a railway line.

Christian B lived on-site there between 2013 and 2016.

He lived on the plot when five-year-old Inga Gehricke, dubbed the ‘German Maddie’, vanished from a nearby forest during a family barbecue.

According to The Sun, a neighbour at the Braunschweig allotment claims Christian B dug a hole at the property.

Manfred Richter, 80, told the newspaper: “He excavated and dug out the bottom of the floor of the house and took out all the stone three meters deep.

“He dug a big hole and three by six meters wide. He carried all the stones and rocks out to the front of the house and left a huge mound of it in the garden.

“He put planks of wood over the top of the hole. It took him nearly two months to do this.

“He worked first thing in the morning and stopped last thing at night.”

Police and forensic teams searched the first site, an allotment, in Hanover with the assistance of dogs, diggers, and underground radar equipment this week.

The suspect lived in a shack which is said to have been removed after he left the site in 2007 or 2008.

Pictures showed two skips full of concrete blocks as well as a bucket being taken away by investigators.

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Blue bags containing items were removed from the site – but police did not disclose the contents.

The public prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) remain silent about the purpose of the search.

Police detection dogs can be trained in several disciplines, including smelling corpses and finding devices.

Christian B’s lawyer, Friedrich Fuelscher, did not want to comment on the Hanover search.

German newspapers say investigators have yet to speak to Christian B since they publicised him as the prime suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance.

Additional reporting by Monika Pallenberg.

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