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Woman accusing Christian Brückner of rape says his eyes ‘bored into my skull’

Christian Brückner in court
Christian Brückner is accused of five sexual assaults of women in Portugal between 2000 and 2017. Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/AFP/Getty Images

A woman who alleges she was raped at knifepoint by the main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has told a court she would never forget the eyes of her attacker, which “bored into my skull”.

Giving evidence in the trial of Christian Brückner, who stands accused of five sexual assaults in Portugal of women aged between 10 and 80 between 2000 and 2017, Hazel Behan, 40, who was raped in June 2004, told the court: “I believe that this man was my attacker.”

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