An inmate may have been recruited by German prosecutors to get Christian Brueckner to confess he was behind Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
German legal sources say an “informer” could have been employed as investigators tried to get evidence to charge Brueckner. Asked about the claim tonight, the public prosecutor’s office would not deny it, simply saying: “No comment.” Sources said the inmate was recruited when Brueckner was in Wolfenbuettel jail before being transferred to Kiel, where he is now in solitary confinement.
It happened before Brueckner, 43, was named as the prime suspect after phone records placed him in Praia da Luz in Portugal on the night Madeleine, three, vanished in 2007.
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