Madeleine McCann key suspect had ‘troubled childhood’ and first conviction at 17

Martin Offiah has opened up about his thoughts on the royals as the debate about the family’s role in 21st century Britain churns on.The rugby star spoke candidly on the red carpet for Nordoff Robbins Legends of Rugby Dinner.Martin, 56, was awarded his MBE in 1997 by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, whom he described as “fantastic".When asked for his thoughts on the royals, Martin gave a considered response on the subject.“You know, I think your history is your history regardless of whether you think it’s good or bad,” he said.“Similar to our own history, you have to understand it, and the royal family is part of British history.He went on to discuss the potential economic benefits of having a royal family.“It does bring a lot of money, for want of a better term, into the economy and the purse,” Martin explained.“Yeah, I wouldn’t say I’m a royalist as such, but I’m in favour of the royal family.“I think they’re a good thing for this country.That’s something that should be kept.”Ahead of being honoured along with legendary England captain Jason Robinson last Wednesday night, Martin reflected on his proudest sporting achievement.“My proudest moment is probably going to be scoring for Wigan,” he said.“Jason and I are here being honoured tonight.The Wigan club are here tonight and it's their 150th anniversary.“And obviously me scoring in that game with Jason in 1994 at Wembley is what I’m going to be remembered for when I’m no longer here.”Martin was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame in 2013 after an incredibly successful career in the sport.The athlete played for English league clubs Wigan, London Broncos, Widnes and Salford City Reds, while in Australia he also played for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and St.

Strictly Come Dancing partner, Johannes Radebe, were expecting to receive abuse when they took part in the BBC dance show as the first all-male couple.Speaking recently on That Gaby Roslin Podcast, John said: “I guess, we knew it was going to happen. We fully anticipated a bit of hate.“Johannes, being a black man as well, he anticipated a bit of racial hate, which he got.

Ben Croll “I asked myself, why was it so difficult to name a Quebecois film from the past 25 years that treated sexuality as its central theme?” Côté told Variety. “Why could France foster directors who filmed the human body in direct and unselfconscious ways, and Quebec could not? Were Quebecois more prudish than others?”And so the Montreal-based filmmaker started on his 14th feature, which follows three so-called “hypersexual” women, plagued with troubled histories and fragile mental states, as they participate in a month-long therapy retreat. But as he developed the script with a local sexologist, the filmmaker saw potential traps in two very different directions.“The film could never be meant to judge,” Côté explained.

Brett Bull Each January, the Motion Picture Producers Assn. of Japan holds a press conference to reveal the previous year’s box office data and its list of top-grossing films.One year ago — at what was then thought to be the height of the coronavirus pandemic — the event was a somber gathering: Receipts for 2020 were down a whopping 38% over the year before.On Jan.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ninth and final husband, was desperate for an heir – so he adopted an adult son and chronicled it on TV. The widower is one of many subjects featured on A&E’s "Adults Adopting Adults," which chronicles his quest to find someone in Beverly Hills who could inherit his estate and care for him. "I tried very hard to find somebody," the 78-year-old told Fox News Digital.

Naman Ramachandran Producer Shrihari Sathe of New York-based production company Dialectic is enjoying the best time of his life, with no less than three of his projects, each completely different in style, genre and tone, being selected at A-list festivals.The latest career high for Sathe began with Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s continent-hopping, multilingual identity tale “No Land’s Man” being selected at Busan in October 2021, followed by Francisca Alegria’s Spanish-language magical realist drama “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future” premiering at this year’s Sundance. Now, “Stay Awake,” an expansion of Jamie Sisley’s 2015 short film of the same name that premiered at the Berlinale and won the Jury Prize at Slamdance, makes its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation 14plus strand on Feb. 12.

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

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.

DNA evidence in the case of a woman who may have been raped by the Madeleine McCann prime suspect was destroyed on a judge's orders.

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