The man suspected of abducting Madeleine McCann has no chance of being freed from jail on parole, German prosecutors insist.
Christian Brueckner, 43, is serving 21 months for drugs offences and appealing a seven-year term for raping an American woman aged 72 in Portugal, where Madeleine went missing.
There have been reports he may be released from jail in Kiel, northern Germany, by exploiting a loophole in the legal system.
But local prosecutor Stephanie Gropp said “the condemned man will not get out” even if he is granted parole – because a detention order issued over the rape “has not yet been revoked”.
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