BREAKING: Madeline McCann suspected named
The 43-year-old German has been named as Christian Brueckner – who was jailed last year for raping a 72-year-old American tourist in Praia da Luz shortly before Maddie was snatched from a holiday home 13 years ago.
The German public prosecutor said they were investigating a 43-year-old German man on suspicion of murder. “In more than 13 years of working with the family I can’t recall the police being so specific about an individual,” Mitchell toldThe long-running case of McCann, who vanished shortly before her fourth birthday, has mesmerised Britain for years.
Police said the suspect, described as white with short, blond hair and a slim build, was linked to a camper van seen in the Algarve in 2007 and was believed to be in the resort area in the days before and after May 3 that year.
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