Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner will NEVER face trial, his lawyers insist

Paedophile prime suspect Christian Brueckner will NEVER face court over claims he killed Madeleine McCann, his lawyers insist

  • Christian Brueckner’s lawyer claims that he is certain his client will not go on trial
  • Brueckner is prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, three
  • The 43-year-old is currently in prison in Kiel, Germany on a drugs charge

The lawyer for the prime suspect in the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann claims he is certain his client will never face trial.

Convicted German paedophile Christian Brueckner, 43, is currently in prison in Kiel, Germany on a drugs conviction and police are gathering evidence to charge him within the next two months.

Police leading the investigation have told the McCanns they have ‘concrete evidence’ that Madeleine is dead – the biggest break-through in the 13-year-old case.  

However, Brueckner’s lawyer Friedrich Fulscher has claimed that his client will never go on trial for for Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and ‘has nothing to hide’.

Prime suspect Christian Brueckner ‘has nothing to hide’, his lawyer claims, and says his client will NEVER go on trial for the kidnap and murder of Madeleine McCann

Brueckner is prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, three, while she was on holiday in the Algarve

Brueckner is prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, three, while she was on holiday in the Algarve

According to The Sun, Mr Fulscher said: ‘Where is the evidence?

‘Why has the prosecution not revealed it?

‘There won’t be a trial for my client for Madeleine McCann. I am certain.’  

However, his lawyer Mr Fulscher said if the case ever did get to trial, Christian Brueckner would face the court ‘serenely and calmly… he has nothing to hide’.

Brueckner is the prime suspect in the kidnap and murder of three-year-old Madeleine in 2007 while she was on holiday in Praia da Luz.  

Police are adamant that the convicted German paedophile is the culprit and insist they have ‘concrete evidence’ Madeleine is dead.   

Police use rakes to search an allotment in Hanover on July 28 as part of the Madeleine investigation

Police use rakes to search an allotment in Hanover on July 28 as part of the Madeleine investigation

Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who is leading the investigation, said he hoped to be able to charge Brueckner within the next two months.  

In June, prosecutors said that they had mobile phone data which put Brueckner near the Ocean Club apartments in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve – from where Madeleine, three, was taken in May, 2007.

The German drifter left Portugal shortly after Madeleine McCann disappeared in May 2007 and returned to Germany ‘to start a new life’, according to a friend. 

He is serving a prison sentence in Germany for drug trafficking and is appealing against a conviction for raping of a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.   

Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann have endured 13 years of heartbreak following their daughter's disappearance

Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann have endured 13 years of heartbreak following their daughter’s disappearance 

Madeleine disappeared from the Ocean Club apartments in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve in May 2007

Madeleine disappeared from the Ocean Club apartments in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve in May 2007