Police mugshots have emerged which show Portuguese cops DID know about Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner’s paedophile past.
A series of images of the German were taken in Faro in July 1999 – eight years before Madeleine was abducted in Praia da Luz, 60 miles away.
The pictures – never made public before – were in court files obtained exclusively by the Sunday Mirror. Brueckner was 22 and was being extradited to his native Germany over a playground assault on a girl of six in 1994.
He served two years in jail before returning to his old stomping ground in Portugal. Brueckner raped a woman of 72 in 2005 and is suspected of a string of burglaries at holiday properties like the one Madeleine was staying in.
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