Christian Brueckner will remain in prison another year because he is still serving a seven-year sentence for rape in a different case.
However, Brueckner will remain in prison another year because he is still serving a seven-year sentence for rape in a different case, German news agency dpa reported.Christian Brueckner, centre, stands in the courtroom at Braunschweig District Court before the start of the trial, in Brunswick, Germany, on Tuesday October 8, 2024.
Defence lawyers had pointed to what they labeled a lack of evidence and witnesses who weren't credible, and suggested he might not have been charged if he hadn't also been a suspect in the McCann case. "The evidence we had was not enough to convict the defendant," presiding judge Uta Engemann said, according to dpa, adding that "we were dealing with unreliable witnesses, some of whom deliberately lied to the court".
He spent many years in Portugal, including in the resort of Praia da Luz around the time of Madeleine's disappearance there in 2007. He has denied any involvement in her disappearance.
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