Did Maddie suspect take our girl, too?

cops urged to quiz Brueckner about Joana, 8, who vanished 5 miles away

person who should be questioned. There are still so many unanswered questions hanging over Joana’s disappearance and he could hold the key to solving them.

Dad-of-three Leandro, from Portimao, told how he “shares the pain” Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry have felt since their daughter vanished aged three in 2007.

German police claim they have evidence she is dead.

Leandro added: “For me there were a lot of similarities with the two disappearances. I dream of knowing what happened to poor Joana just like I know the Mccanns do [about Madeleine]. If that means finding out they are dead so be it but I obviously wish for a different ending.

“What I do want is justice done for whoever’s taken her and I don’t feel as if I have all or any of the answers.”

Joana vanished after leaving a local cafe with milk and a tin of tuna she had just bought.

Her murder investigation was led by Goncalo Amaral, the police chief who led the botched probe into Madeleine’s disappearance. He was found to have

There were a lot of similarities. Brueckner should be questioned LEANDRO SILVA THE STEP-DAD OF JOANA

falsified police documents in the Cipriano case and was jailed for 18 months.

Leonor launched a campaign to find her daughter before being made a suspect by Amaral, in the same way doctors Kate and Gerry, of Rothley, Leics, were. Detectives claimed Joao killed Joana after she allegedly caught him having incestuous sex with her mum.

Leonor confessed to police over the alleged murder but today insists she is innocent. Joao confessed to cutting Joana’s body into pieces and feeding them to pigs.

However, he also now claims he had no involvement and said he too was “forced” to confess. Leonor withdrew her confession the day after signing it, alleging she was beaten during a two-day interrogation.

Police claimed her injuries were caused when she threw herself down a flight of stairs in a botched suicide attempt after her arrest.

Her and Joao’s murder trial was the first in Portugal to be conducted without a body being discovered.

The pair were each jailed for 16 years.

Leonor, now living in Evora in south-central Portugal, was let out in February last year.

Joao was released from a prison near Lisbon a month later.