Lawyers for a man who is also under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann called on Monday for him to be acquitted in his trial on charges of unrelated sexual offences.
Prosecutors last week urged Germany’s Braunschweig state court to convict the 47-year-old German national - who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner - of two counts of rape and two of sexual abuse.
