prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation months after she disappeared. German national Christian Brueckner, 43 – a convicted child sex offender, drug dealer, and burglar – has been identified as her alleged killer.
He was allegedly living with an underage Kosovan girl in Praia da Luz when Madeleine disappeared in 2007.Portugal's Policia Judiciaria investigated Bruckner at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance but he was reportedly ruled out by detectives on the Algarve.It wasn’t until three years ago that Scotland Yard were tipped off about his potential links with the crime.
German newspaper Braunschweiger Zeitung claims he is carrying out a seven-year prison sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in.
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