The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann appeared to smirk as he emerged from court yesterday, as journalists asked him if he abducted and killed the British three-year-old.
Christian Brueckner was confronted by reporters as he left the court in Lehrte, Germany, after being convicted of insulting guards at the prison where he is serving a seven-year sentence for rape.
Brueckner is under investigation on suspicion of abduction and murder in the McCann case but has denied any involvement in the girl's 2007 disappearance.
While German investigators made the unusual move of naming the convicted paedophile as a suspect in the case, he has not been charged.
The 47-year-old's prison term is set to end with his release this September - much earlier than prosecutors had hoped for after he was acquitted of unrelated sexual offences in court last October following a trial.
