A FORMER Ocean Club worker tipped off Christian B that Madeleine had been left alone, it was claimed yesterday.

Police sources believe the insider had Christian B's old Portuguese mobile phone details — one of two numbers revealed by UK cops last week — in his diary.

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He then told the fiend when the McCanns and their Brit pals, the Tapas Seven, would dine out and leave valuables in rooms.

Cops believe Christian B, age 30 at the time, was compelled to snatch Madeleine after going to plunder the apartment in May 2007.

A Judicial Police source said: “The theory shared by the Portuguese and German police is that the suspect panicked.

“The objective was a burglary, but he saw Mad­eleine and the twins and decided to take the eldest.”

A link between B and the unnamed former Ocean Club worker was revealed after the German’s 2017 drunken bar confession on the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.

Court documents seen by The Sun revealed that a German pal, who alerted cops about B’s 2005 rape of a widow in Praia da Luz, told how the fiend would brag he had broken into some villas while the occupants were inside.

One statement said: “At one point, the defendant told him that he was also going to hotels and that he was stealing from tourists.

“He also climbed up facades and had already entered rooms where someone was ‘penned in’.”

B returned to Germany in the late 2000s, telling pals he’d made thousands from his burglaries.

A former friend said: “He was helping himself to cash, jewellery, electronic items.

“He used the money to buy drugs and sell them on.”

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