‘When we arrested him we could see the surprise on his face’: Italian police set a trap for Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner ‘by making a fake appointment for a new passport’ Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner was arrested with a trap in Italy The Italian police made a fake appointment with him for a new passport … Read more
Christian Brueckner shouted ‘the child is dead now and that’s it’ when work colleagues discussed Madeleine McCann Lenta Johlitz, 34, worked at a kiosk shop in northern German town Braunschweig She said Christian Brueckner wanted her friends to stop talking about the case He ‘totally lost it’ and ‘shouted: “The child is dead now and that’s … Read more
Paedophile Christian Brueckner regularly visited a rundown house hidden away in the Portuguese countryside in the months after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The property – pictured exclusively and never before linked to Brueckner – could now become a focal point in the investigation into whether the German kidnapped and … Read more
Friend who agreed to ‘own’ Christian Brueckner’s Jaguar a day after Maddie vanished tells how the ‘nervous’ paedophile slept in his attic after fleeing Portugal By Inderdeep Bains for the Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 5 June 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 5 June 2020 This is the dingy attic bolthole where ‘nervous’ Madeleine suspect … Read more
Witnesses described seeing a blond man staring at Maddie McCann’s holiday flat four days before she was snatched – as e-fits bear striking resemblance to German suspect Photos of Christian Brueckner have matched description of man seen nearby Person was seen at resort in days leading up to girl’s disappearance in Portugal Witnesses told police … Read more
Former Neighbours of the German paedophile named as a suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance remember him as a loner who only occasionally stayed at a rented villa near Praia da Luz. The single-storey red-tiled villa where suspect Christian Brueckner lived is called Escola Vehla – the old school house – and is now owned by … Read more
The new prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance was today revealed as a rapist who lived in a farmhouse two miles from where she went missing in Portugal. German criminal Christian Brueckner lived on the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, including for a few years in the ramshackle home between Lagos and Praia da Luz. The suspected … Read more
Those of us who have followed the twists and turns of the Madeleine McCann story had all but given up hope of the long-running inquiry into her disappearance leading anywhere. So yesterday’s announcement by the police came as a bolt from the blue. So much time has passed and so many leads have come to … Read more
Madeleine McCann was just three years old when she was taken from her bed during a family holiday in Portugal 13 years ago. More than a decade after she disappeared from Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, police have revealed a 43-year-old German prisoner has been identified as a suspect. From 2007 until now millions … Read more
2007 May 3: Gerry and Kate McCann leave their three children, including Maddie, asleep in their hotel apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, as they eat with friends in a nearby restaurant. When they return, they find Maddie missing from her bed May 4: A friend of the McCanns reports of seeing a man carrying … Read more