DNA evidence destroyed after Irish woman 'raped by Madeleine McCann suspect'

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Police have found a 'secret cellar' which belonged to Madeleine McCann's prime suspect where he lived the year she vanished, it has been reported.

Madeleine McCann. In recent days officers have launched a "large-scale" operation in the Linden branch channel connected to the missing girl.It's rumoured they're searching for a cellar built under an allotment once rented by prime suspect Christian Brueckner.

The lawyer for the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance said "we'll find out soon" why police are digging up an allotment linked to him.

German police carried out an "ominous" search through the night as they dug a 10 metre long hole in a rented private garden once thought to have been used by the Madeleine McCann suspect.

Madeleine McCann case has abandoned a legal bid to leave prison early.German prisoner Christian Brueckner is currently serving a sentence for drug offences in the city of Kiel. His lawyers had launched an application to cut his current jail term, but it has since been withdrawn, The Sun reports.

German prosecutors probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have an “ace up their sleeve” to nail the prime suspect, a top criminologist claims.

A witness has claimed that Madeleine McCann could be alive and living on the Algarve with a new German family.

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner to a November 2007 burglary at a home in Gale where a family’s £91,000 savings were taken.

Madeleine McCann speaking German in Portugal three years ago.The retired teacher has come forward to say she spotted Maddie in a supermarket in the resort of Albufeira in the Algarve.She was speaking to another child, the woman told Portuguese TV.Albufeira is about 37 miles from Praia da Luz, where Maddie went missing from in 2007.A 43-year-old German paedophile called Christian Brueckner has been named as the prime suspect in Madeleine's abduction.The woman, named only as Maria, made the astonishing revelation on weekly Portuguese investigative news show Sexta as 9 hosted by Sandra Felgueiras.She claimed she was convinced it was the vanished Brit because of a distinctive blemish in her right eye."I clearly saw her and I am sure of what I

Madeleine McCann case has claimed her disappearance may have been a case of burglary gone wrong.Appearing on the ITV documentary Madeleine McCann: The Hunt For The Prime Suspect, Public Prosecutor for Braunschweig Hans Christian Wolters argued that her kidnapper may have grabbed her in a spur of the moment decision.Wolters believes she was taken by convicted German paedophile Christian Brueckner, the lead suspect in Maddie's disappearance.Speaking on the documentary, he said Brueckner had a record of breaking into holiday apartments in and around Praia da Luz, the Portuguese resort where Maddie, three, was staying with her family when she went missing.The prosecutor added that he may have taken the child on a whim after breaking into her

Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brüeckner was said to have a "troubled childhood" in an explosive new documentary by ITV that digs into his background.The 43-year-old German prisoner has a slew of previous offences, including sexual offences and burglary.His criminality began at a young age, as revealed in ITV's Madeleine McCann: The Hunt for the Prime Suspect tonight.Born in Würzburg, southern Germany, in 1976 Brüeckner was adopted as a baby, but as the show notes, his early years were “troubled”.In 1993, aged just 17, he was caught sexually abusing a child of an unknown age and faced “significant punishment”, the documentary states.An expert told the show: "If I look at the life and criminal record of Christian B, I see some red

A new documentary called Madeleine McCann : The Hunt for the Prime Suspect, has explained that police are looking for a new person of interest.

A new documentary on Madeleine McCann has explained the recent developments in the case as a new prime suspect has been named.

Paedophile Christian Brueckner has been identified as the prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

Madeleine McCann prime suspect.Hazel Behan, 37, said she believes her attacker was Christian Brueckner, named last month in connection with Madeleine’s disappearance in May 2007.He was convicted of a similar rape just a year after Hazel was attacked in 2004 and two years before Madeleine vanished from the resort of Praia da Luz.Hazel says they failed to properly investigate the attack first time around. One problem they now face is vital DNA evidence was destroyed on the orders of a judge, usual in Portugal when no suspect is identified.

Police investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance have just 22 months to prosecute the prime suspect, the family's lawyer says.

Madeleine McCann have just 22 months to convict their prime suspect, according to the family’s lawyer.It will be a race against the clock for police investigating the 13-year mystery of what happened to the Brit youngster.The toddler was just three-years-old when she was taken from a holiday resort in Praia Da Luiz in Portugal.Lawyer Rogerio Alves said there is a 22-month window to secure a conviction because of a 15-year time limit on prosecutions in Portugal.Paedophile Christian Brueckner, 42, was sensationally named as the prime suspect earlier this year for the 2007 abduction.He is currently in jail in Germany for drug offences and the rape of a US woman in Portugal in 2005.Alves told ITV the time is getting short for police.He said:

The Madeleine McCann case is "90% solved" as German police remain "confident" in their prime suspect, a source said.

Christian Brueckner, a career criminal with a sordid history of child sex offences, is the focus of the investigation.Cops are now said to be probing a woman who was linked to Brueckner during burglaries in Portugal.She allegedly called him after pinpointing the “best properties to rob” before he raided the homes, according to Portuguese media.Her dad, from Schweinfurt in Germany, told The Sun: “I was with the police for an hour last month.“They said they had 90% solved the case and seemed very confident.”He added: “They seemed ­to be very convinced that Christian B was their man.”The man, a retired ambulance driver, met Brueckner the year Madeleine disappeared from the Portuguese Praia da Luz resort.Describing his camper van, Brueckner