Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has sent a letter to authorities moaning that his life in prison is like “torture”.
The convicted German paedophile, 45, complained about death threats he says he has received from inmates at the high-security jail.
He also whinged about being in his cell for 23 hours a day, demanded creamer for his coffee and grumbled about the quality of pens the prisoners are given to write with.
His rambling, 14-page letter went to the Ministry of Justice in Germany where he is serving time for rape.
Brueckner wrote that he has become the target of “insults and death threats” from prisoners after a TV documentary about him.
He said he is too scared to leave his cell, adding: “I’m self-isolating since there is a high probability of [an] attack by inmates.”
German newspaper Der Spiegel said he compared his long days in his eight square metre cell to “torture”. Brueckner, who denies any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance, stopped working in the prison factory over fears he would be attacked.
He wrote: “Should any of the inmates want to seriously injure me or kill me, the locksmith shop is the ideal place. Tools are lying around and it is possible a sharp blade can be found in seconds.
“The repellent behaviour of the prisoners working there was so threatening for me that I asked for the termination of my employment.”
German police think he abducted and killed British girl Madeleine.
She vanished aged three from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in Portugal in 2007.
Brueckner is being held at Oldenburg prison near Bremen, serving a seven-year jail term for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.
He was convicted in Germany in 1994 of sexually abusing a child.
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