A man officially declared a suspect in the case of missing Madeleine McCann has had a parole application rejected in Germany, according to a report. Convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner – who was sentenced to a seven-year term for rape in a separate case in 2019 – was denied parole in April due to his “social prognosis”.
A spokesman for Oldenburg District Court told the Mirror: “The court ruled there were no grounds for suspending the remainder of the sentence.” Brueckner, who was identified as a murder suspect by German prosecutors in June 2020, has reportedly denied any involvement in the McCann case and has not been charged.
Prosecutors were reported on Monday to have been surprised by the emergence of an alleged alibi presented on behalf of Brueckner claiming that there was photographic evidence to show he was miles away at the moment Madeleine McCann was taken from her bed in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz in the Algrave, Portugal, on May 3, 2007. Brueckner was declared an official suspect by Portuguese authorities last month.
