Madeleine McCann suspect 'joked he'd hid her in the cellar' claims sickened ex-pal

mirror.co.uk:

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner laughed when friends joked that he was hiding the missing girl in his cellar, says a former friend.

He claimed that the convicted paedophile mocked German police and boasted they had no evidence after they first called him in for questioning in 2013.

The man, once close to Brueckner, said he waved a legal letter over the case in front of him as if he was proud of it. “He laughed about it and said it was a summons.

He was just waving this piece of paper about. I felt like it was like a little trophy to him,” said the ex-pal. “After a couple of weeks we started winding him up about it saying ‘Maddie’s downstairs in the cellar.