Reuters
The prime suspect within the disappearance of 3-year-old British toddler Madeleine McCann has complained in an open letter that he is being trapped and framed for crimes he didn't commit.
Christian Brueckner, 45, is serving a seven-year sentence in Germany for the rape of a 72-year-old American girl within the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal in 2007—the identical resort and 12 months McCann disappeared.
However Brueckner—who's now going through a string of different intercourse crime costs, and who was discovered with baby pornography and little lady bathing fits in his possession—says cops are simply attempting to trick him to make him confess to one thing he says he didn’t do.
In a letter obtained by the Mirror, Brueckner wrote, “The time that a few of these crimes are imagined to have occurred I used to be in jail. The prosecution are attempting to entice me and hope that I'll capitulate below the psychological strain,” he wrote, based on the British tabloid. “They hope that I'll simply say sure to all the pieces which is able to give me an opportunity to flee from this psychological torture.”
He goes on to say that there's “no proof in any respect” tying him to crimes he's serving time for and for McCann’s disappearance. Brueckner was a handyman within the resort when McCann disappeared and matches at the least one suspect profile drawn by police primarily based on a witness who noticed a person carrying a baby in a blanket the evening she went lacking.
McCann was nabbed from a household suite on the resort whereas her twin siblings slept close by whereas her dad and mom ate at a close-by tapas bar. The adults within the group took turns checking on the kids at common intervals, and when Kate McCann took her flip, younger Madeleine was gone.
Police misplaced useful time focusing their consideration on McCann’s dad and mom, who're each medical doctors, and who they suspected unintentionally killed their daughter with sleeping syrup so they might get pleasure from an evening out. Such claims have by no means been corroborated and McCann’s physique has by no means been discovered.
Police in Portugal declare the German nationwide raped a youngster and two different girls in the identical resort between 2000 and 2007, however Brueckner denies the costs. “Nobody is aware of who these persons are and what’s occurred to them,” he claims regardless of police counting on official experiences from the time. “No title, no nationality, nothing. Maybe the victims left for the moon for some time.”
German police say they're satisfied Brueckner kidnapped and killed McCann, however they've to date not produced the proof wanted to cost him with the crime. He would face life in jail if convicted.