A man’s claims that he gave Workington police information that could be related to Madeline McCann’s disappearance has been refuted by Cumbria Constabulary.
Ken Ralphs, a former UK political campaigner, told Sky News that Christian B, the German drifter suspected of abducting Madeleine, tried to recruit a mutual friend to help find a youngster to sell to a childless couple – one week before Madeline disappeared.
He claimed that when he heard about Madeline McCann’s disappearance from her family’s holiday apartment in the Algarve in 2007, he within three hours drove from his father’s house to a Workington police station to report what he knew.
He further claimed he made police aware of a ‘secret map’ leading to the location of where Mr Ralph’s mutual friend was living in remote woodlands in Southwest Portugal.
He also alleged that he told police the information had to be immediately sent to Portuguese police.
Mr Ralphs met the mutual friend while living in Portugal and claimed that on his return to the Algarve he informed local police of his story again and was allegedly told Portuguese detectives knew nothing about it.
A spokesman for Cumbria Constabulary said: “There is no record on any of the Constabulary systems relating to information relating to this case being provided to police in Workington.”
