Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner ‘screams the girl is dead’ in chilling outburst
German paedophile Christian Brueckner has been behind bars serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany over the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in 2005.
Christian Brueckner went on a disturbing rant about Madeleine McCann in an outburst that left colleagues reeling, it has been claimed.
The German paedophile, who is the prime suspect in the disappearance, has been behind bars serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany over the rape of an elderly woman at her home in Praia da Luz in 2005. However, as reported by the Mirror, he has been freed from jail and police are no closer to finding justice for Maddie’s distraught family.
Investigators remain convinced that the 49-year-old snatched and murdered Maddie in 2007. They have, however, failed to secure enough evidence to keep him behind bars and Brueckner has previously denied any involvement.
Madeleine is the world’s most high-profile missing person(Image: PA)
Now, 17 years on from the night she went missing, a new ITV documentary has shed light on the failings during the initial investigation for Maddie in Portugal. It also delves into the dark world of Brueckner, revealing he hid in plain sight as he committed a string of sickening crimes.
The new show follows criminologist Dr Graham Hill’s efforts to piece together clues around Brueckner’s past, his whereabouts around the time of Maddie’s disappearance and how it took 13 years for the paedophile to become the prime suspect in a case that rocked Britain.
German police spent three days searching for clues on wasteground near Praia da Luz in June(Image: PA)
Four years after little Maddie vanished, Brueckner moved from Portugal back to Germany and was running a corner store in Braunschweig. It was there where one co-worker heard the convicted sex offender’s alarming outburst about Madeleine.
The writer continued: “He [then] makes a really odd comment which is: ‘Yes, pigs can also eat human flesh you know'”.
It comes as a fellow inmate of Brueckner claimed he confessed to abducting a child in Portugal. Larentius Codin, a former inmate in the same prison, was giving evidence in an unrelated cases involving Brueckner, and claimed he was told by the suspect that he had raped young girls near Hanover and had abducted a girl in Portugal.
Brueckner pictured inside the kiosk he ran in Braunschweig in the early 2000s(Image: Daily Mirror)
Codin also claimed that Brueckner had asked whether sniffer dogs could detect children’s bones if they were hidden underground.
Elsewhere in the ITV documentary, Dr Hill visits an abandoned warehouse that was once owned by Brueckner. Police made horrifying discoveries at the “eerie” site, including a supermarket carrier bag stuffed with of USB sticks allegedly containing footage of child sexual abuse – both involving Brueckner himself and of others.
Journalist Hyde, accompanying Dr Hill to the factory, explained: “Under the body of a dead dog, police found a supermarket bag full of USB sticks with 100s of most vile sickening and blood curdling child sex crimes, some involving Christian Brueckner doing it and others just collections of it.”
The kiosk that the suspect worked in(Image: Daily Mirror)
Investigators also found more than 70 children’s swimming costumes hidden in a motorhome parked at the disused factory. Brueckner reportedly bought the site for £20,000 in 2008. Walking around the site, the criminologist presenting the programme called the buildings ‘eerie’ and ‘really creepy’.
