This is the squalid flat where Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner was housed following his release from prison.

The convicted sex offender abandoned the hideaway in the quiet German town of Neumünster yesterday after the location was disclosed on a local WhatsApp group. Furious residents yelled “scum” and “shame on you” as officers escorted him from the ground floor accommodation.

Police carried two shopping bags containing grinning Brueckner’s modest belongings as he walked with hands in pockets towards a patrol vehicle. Brueckner was freed from jail on September 17 and remained just over a week in the barely furnished dwelling.

Images reveal all he possessed was a single bed, a chair and a desk with a lamp. Additional rooms in the accommodation were entirely bare.

The 48 year-old remains German police’s chief suspect in three year old Madeleine’s vanishing in 2007, reports the Mirror.

She disappeared whilst holidaying with her family in Praia da Luz in Portugal’s Algarve. Brueckner, who resided in the vicinity, refutes any connection.

Earlier this month, the German citizen was freed from jail near Hanover following a seven-year sentence for attacking a US pensioner in 2005 – also in Praia da Luz.

He was subsequently photographed enjoying a McDonald’s burger and captured on CCTV purchasing a mobile phone and appearing to chuckle as he displayed his ankle tag. Shop workers said the former handyman informed them he would “not last long”.

Manager Farouk Salah-Brahmin, 32, said: “Brueckner told me he had some information. I don’t know if it’s the McCann case but he said he had evidence that could bring the scandal of the century to an end… He said something about USB sticks.”

Despite being German police’s prime suspect in the Madeleine case, authorities have not issued an arrest warrant and cannot detain him indefinitely. Officers say they possess some evidence suggesting Madeleine is deceased but lack forensic proof linking Brueckner to her disappearance.

Police have verified his mobile phone was in the vicinity of Ocean Club when the McCann family, from Leicestershire, were holidaying there. Brueckner declined to respond to questions regarding the Madeleine case whilst imprisoned or speak with investigators.

Upon his release from Sehnde prison he declared himself without a home and was placed in emergency housing in the German suburb. He is required to wear an electronic tag for five years and his passport has been confiscated.