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Kate and Gerry McCann are going through a fresh bout of suffering as cops in Portugal search for out what took place to their missing out on daughter Madeleine.

The newest advancement in their 18-year search is a brand-new dig for evidence on land close to Praia Da Luz, where she went missing out on.

But while the and yearning is the public image Britain is used to, there is a private side to the couple - as happy moms and dads of Maddie's two younger brother or sisters.

Today MailOnline can expose details of the successful boy Maddie's younger sibling has actually become. Sean McCann is now an elite swimmer training like an Olympic athlete.

Meanwhile, officers in Portugal have actually been seen clearing plants around deserted buildings, using protective gear such as construction hats and face masks, and a digger was used to move rubble.

The area where they are working is an area of fields and scrubland in between a main roadway and the sea, with a couple of buildings including a vineyard.

Back in Britain, Maddie's brother Sean, seen below presenting happily in his royal blue Scottish Swimming t-shirt, is being tipped to compete at the 2028 games in Los Angeles for Team GB.

The 20-year-old was snapped with a gold medal around his neck after competing in an open water swimming celebration in the Mediterranean.

Sean McCann, 20, won a gold medal after competing in an open water swimming festival

Madeleine McCann vanished on May 3, 2007, while on holiday with her moms and dads and siblings

Gerry and Kate McCann with Amelie and Sean in their apartment or condo in Praia da Luz in 2007

Fresh authorities searches are under method near the spot where Madeleine McCann was last seen near Praia da Luz, Portugal

Firefighters and search groups inspect a well at a derelict and deserted residential or commercial property to the west of Praia De Luz, Portugal, where searches are being performed by officers examining the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

He and his twin sis Amelie were simply 2 years old when Maddie disappeared from their holiday apartment or condo in the Portuguese resort on May 3, 2007.

Sean and Amelie have grown up being called 'Maddie's younger brother or sisters', as she continues to be a regular in the news to this day.

The younger brother or sisters were photographed routinely as young kids as the story went worldwide.

Former Portuguese detective states brand-new search for Madeleine McCann is 'over the top'

Their moms and dads later did their best to keep them out of the spotlight, although Kate once stated publicly how as an infant Sean had displayed a toy sword and said he was going to get the 'bad guy' who had actually nabbed his sibling away.

In 2023 Amelie, then 18, openly joined her parents for the very first time in years for a casual prayer gathering on the 16th anniversary of Maddie's disappearance at the family home village of Rothley, Leicestershire.

And Sean, who is studying chemical engineering at university, has been swimming competitively for almost 10 years.

He revealed in 2023 he had been getting up at 4am to swim before school because the age of 11, and going to the gym 3 times a week.

The student has set his sights on representing Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year and competing in Los Angeles in 2028.

Sean was envisioned smiling on a beach last May after winning gold in the guys's 1,500 m race without a wetsuit at the Best Fest Open Water Festival in Colonia Sant Jordi, Mallorca.

Sean has set his sights on representing Team GB at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028

In the exact same celebration, he scooped up bronze in the guys's 5,000 m swim with a wetsuit while completing as part of Scottish Swimming's Open Water Development Squad.

A report of the event said he had actually belonged to the leading pack and broke from the remainder of the field to end up in 1:00.53 - nearly 2 minutes ahead of 4th location.

Sean was also part of Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago in 2023 where he participated in the 400m and 1,500 m freestyle finals.

Madeleine McCann's family find delight after heartbreak: Sean McCann is tipped to swim for Team GB

And he represented Great Britain in the 10km race of the European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Corfu in 2023 when he came 20th.

Sean, who joined Scottish Swimming's nationwide team due to his father's Scottish roots, mentioned his training regime after being awarded a ₤ 400 Inspire Award grant by a charity set up in memory of Joe Humphries, 14, from Rothley who died unexpectedly while running in 2012.

The Joe Humphries Memorial Trust aims to promote research into and awareness of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, which triggered the death of the child, referred to as 'fit, healthy, vibrant and fun liking' by his household.

Sean composed on the charity's site: 'I started competitive sport when I was 8, signing up with Charnwood triathlon club. It was here that I found my enthusiasm for swimming and I signed up with Loughborough Town swimming club to increase the variety of swim sessions I did weekly.

'At the age of 10 I was selected to swim at City of Leicester (Leicestershire's efficiency swimming club), and I have actually considering that gone on to win several county titles along with becoming regional and nationwide champion in my age group.

Maddie McCann's sis Amelie (right) lit a candle light in her memory as she joined her moms and dads and well-wishers on the poignant 16th anniversary of the young child's disappearance in 2023

'In order to have attained this, I have had to stay extremely committed, getting up at 4am multiple early mornings every week to train given that the age of 11.

'I am presently studying chemical engineering, and train nine times a week in the pool, along with 3 health club sessions, amounting to over 20 hours of training (per) week. I am aiming to contend at the 2026 Commonwealth Games and likewise the 2028 Olympics in LA.

'The Inspire awards will help me to money travel and lodging for the Scottish National Swimming Championships in Edinburgh, where I will get valuable racing experience prior to the Olympic swimming trials in April 2024.'

Meanwhile, Sean's sis Amelie has been referred to as popular and outgoing as well as athletic - she is known to have contended in cross country and triathlon events at school.

When not at university, Sean and Amelie still deal with heart specialist Gerry, 56, and former GP Kate, 57, who works with dementia clients, in the exact same ₤ 800,000 redbrick detached house on a cul-de-sac in Rothley they have actually remained in because 2007.

The UK's best-known missing individual case is when again back in the spotlight after it emerged this week that cops in Portugal are to carry out fresh searches.

They are searching the land close to the former home of Christian Brueckner, a founded guilty sex culprit who is the prime suspect in Maddie's disappearance.

The current police activity in the event involving their missing sis follows a tip-off from German cops about Brueckner, currently in jail for the 2005 rape of an American pensioner in Portugal

He was working as a waiter in Praia da Luz at the time of her disappearance and was officially declared a suspect by Portuguese police in 2022.

Kate and Gerry McCann with their child Amelie (bottom right) during a prayer service in 2023

The following year, a former good friend claimed he had all however confessed to the kidnapping, by stating: 'She didn't scream', throughout a conversation about the case at a music celebration in 2008.

German private investigators later searched the Arade reservoir in the Algarve, 31 miles from the holiday resort, for evidence linked to Maddie - but to no avail. Pictures of Brueckner positioning naked beside the same reservoir were found on his tough drive.

Brueckner continues to reject any participation and has actually never been charged. Indeed, in 2015 he was acquitted on unrelated rape and sexual attack charges.

He is because of be launched from prison in September - unless there is an appeal or additional proof emerges linking him to Maddie's case.

The McCanns have made no talk about the newest revelations.

But disgraced previous Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral branded the new searches over the top and wheeled out an ill theory about her disappearance.

The ex-detective, who was taken legal action against over a 2008 book about the 18-year-old secret in which he wrongly pointed the finger at the missing out on youngster's moms and dads, likewise accused his own previous police of 'connivance' with 'substandard' German police officers.

Amaral, thrown off the Madeleine investigation in 2008 after openly criticising British police included in the case, exposed his theory to Portuguese day-to-day Correio da Manha.

He declared of the fresh searches that are occurring: 'This much wasn't required. A plane with geo-radar would have been enough and lowered the search area.'

Maddie disappeared aged 3 while on a household vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007

Amaral added: 'The Germans must have had absolutely nothing to do with the examination. This was a British cops technique with support from the Portuguese cops.'

It comes as a McCann family source told the Mail they were rather 'in the dark' since it is 'a continuous investigation' and they have no direct contact with German or Portuguese authorities.

'We don't understand what evidence police have,' the source said.

'If it is him, and there's no direct and conclusive proof, he might never ever say a word. He's not saying a word now. It might be, regretfully, that we never ever know what took place to Madeleine. But we intend to discover out. We keep hoping after all these years.'

The Metropolitan Police's examination into Maddie's disappearance, called Operation Grange, has received ₤ 13. 2million in Home Office grants, consisting of ₤ 108,000 this year.

Without any arrests or official charges in 18 years, some have actually questioned the viability of the fund.

Kate and Gerry have likewise dealt with hurtful individual attacks, many publicly in 2007 when it was exposed they had actually utilized contributions from the Find Madeleine interest pay their ₤ 2,000-a-month mortgage. Both had actually taken unpaid leave from work to sign up with the search for their daughter.

Kate and Gerry McCann stop to talk with the Press after a church service in Praia da Luz

This year they have dealt with yet more anguish as two women were accused of sending them letters and text, making telephone call and turning up uninvited at their home.

One, Polish-born Julia Wandel, 23, made headings in 2023 after declaring to be Maddie.

A DNA test proved she was not, but Wandel continued to speak out on social media, and it is alleged she travelled to the UK in May last year to participate in Maddie's annual memorial service.

The 2nd, Karen Spragg, 60, from Cardiff, faces one charge of stalking involving serious alarm or distress between May 3, 2024, and 21 February this year. Both pleaded not guilty at Leicester Crown Court last month and are due to go on trial in October.

They are also alleged to have actually stalked Amelie and Sean who have, till recent years, remained totally out of the spotlight at their moms and dads' wish.

'They have actually constantly been in Madeleine's shadow, and simply been the McCann twins,' a family good friend told the Mail. 'But now they are young people, they are taking their own lives.'

In March, Gerry won a prominent award, amounting to ₤ 80,000, to money his continuous research into heart problem. Colleagues praised his 'life-altering work'.