Madeleine McCann

German prosecutors still haven't charged Christian Brueckner in the British toddler's abduction, but the investigation is helping them solve other crimes.

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The prime suspect in the chilling Madeleine McCann case was charged with several sexual offenses against children.

She went missing from the resort on May 3, a few days before her fourth birthday. The 3-year-old vanished during a family vacation in the resort of Praia de Luz in Portugal’s Algarve region in 2007. The prime suspect in the chilling

Hazel Behan, now 39, was raped at knifepoint inside a holiday apartment in Praia da Rocha, Portugal, in June 2004 by a man she believes is Christian ...

'My hair from the 2005 case – 13 years it just happens to appear in the BKA (German police) laboratory. He was convicted after DNA from a hair in her bed was matched to him. He has been named as the chief suspect in her disappearance, but not charged He is also suspected of kidnapping Maddie (right) from the same area in 2007, but has not been charged 'The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann continues,' it noted. This is not a fair investigation.' It made me sick to the core. I got convicted but I never had dark eyes or looked like Dwayne Johnson.' Things just appeared when there wasn't anything before. She awoke to find herself being held at knifepoint. 'To bring charges the prosecutor has to be convinced the information in the case is reliable and relevant and we believe it is not. The fact that Brueckner has not been charged over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from the holiday apartment of parents Kate and Gerry (pictured) in Praia da Luz will bring fresh heartache as they had hoped this would mark the end of the 15-year mystery

Christian Brueckner has been the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann since he was named in 2020 but the German national has yet to be ...

But Brueckner has always denied the allegations he was involved in her kidnapping or murder. They said: “Specifically, the accused is charged with three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of sexual abuse of children. The Braunschweig prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the accused was the same person being investigated for the disappearance of Madeleine. Further charges came in relation to the rapes of two unknown women with a video recording of the alleged attack. However, the news comes as the 45-year-old was charged with a series of sex crimes unrelated to the May 2007 disappearance and Brueckner remains a prime suspect in the case and a “concrete case” is being built against the convicted rapist, it is understood.