Madeleine McCann suspect posed as a Jaguar-driving wannabe playboy before jail

[Judi Lynn]

5 Jun, 2020 12:54pm

The new Madeleine McCann suspect unmasked a day ago has been on the police radar for more than 20 years and could be let out of jail on parole within days, it has emerged.

Labelled a "multiple sex offender", 43-year-old German Christian Brueckner had been convicted of a child sex offence when he was just 17.

But the 43-year-old, who reportedly has 17 criminal convictions, was apparently overlooked by Portuguese in the case of McCann's disappearance.

It also emerged yesterday he had been convicted of raping a 72-year-old widow in her Algarve home just 18 months before McCann disappeared.

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12337492

[Judi Lynn]

1. Germany investigating McCann suspect in another case

David Rising, Associated Press
Updated 6:26 am CDT, Friday, June 5, 2020

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether a 43-year-old who has emerged as a possible suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal may have been involved in a similar crime in Germany.

Prosecutors in the northern town of Stendal, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Berlin, told the dpa news agency Friday they had opened a preliminary investigation to determine whether there was anything to link the suspect to the 2015 disappearance of a 5-year-old girl from a nearby forest.

Authorities have not released the suspect's name, but he has been widely identified by the German media as Christian B. He reportedly had a property 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Stendal in the town of Neuwegersleben when the girl disappeared.

McCann was 3 at the time of her 2007 disappearance from an apartment while her family vacationed in the seaside town of Praia da Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region.

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https://www.chron.com/news/article/Germany-investigating-McCann-suspect-in-another-15319123.php