内容摘要：The figures were published on the Home Office website with no accompanying notification to media.

The figures were published on the Home Office website with no accompanying notification to media.

But, frustrated as residents are when the world's media return to Praia da Luz - year after year at the same time that purple flowers appear on the jacaranda trees - they do understand the unbearable pain that Kate and Gerry McCann must feel.How that shock of realisation that Madeleine was not in her bed turned into minutes, then hours, and then days of panic. Then tortuous, unending months and years of uncertainty.

For 13 years there was no single theory as to what happened to Madeleine McCann. Did she wake up in the middle of an opportunistic burglary and have to be silenced? Was she abducted on behalf of a couple desperate for a child of their own? Had her own parents covered up her accidental death? (A theory given sufficient weight by Portuguese prosecutors that for a while Kate and Gerry McCann were officially under suspicion.)The initial Portuguese investigation failed to preserve the scene adequately, so the opportunity to gather forensic evidence from Madeline McCann's room at the Ocean Club was lost. Long-term residents remember joining in uncoordinated and ad-hoc searches of the town.The Metropolitan Police investigation that began in 2011 built to a peak in 2014, with substantial searches near Praia da Luz - but they did not appear to have any identifiable suspects.

They had 60 people of interest, 38 of whom they were investigating. Portuguese prosecutors had allowed them to search only one of three sites they had asked for access to.Everything changed in June 2020 when, out of the blue, the head prosecutor in Braunschweig in Germany, Hans Christian Wolters, said

Working with the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), the German equivalent of the FBI, he said he had identified a suspect, later identified as Christian Brückner.

"The evidence is strong enough to say that the girl is dead, and to accuse a specific individual of murder," Hans Christian Wolter said.Festival Director Alan Simms said when deciding on the acts they aim for "a broad range of music that appeals to as broad a range of people as possible".

He said personally he was looking forward to seeing Snow Patrol as they had been trying to get them for many years but for "diaries and for other reasons it hasn't panned out" in the past.The gates at Ormeau Park will open at 18:00 BST and close at 21:45 BST.

Belsonic says the curfew is usually about 23:00 BST but times will be posted on social media on the day of the event.Translink says while there will be no special shuttle buses in Belfast for the gigs, scheduled Metro bus services connect with Ormeau Park.