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Madeleine’s case remains one of the most high-profile unsolved disappearances of recent decades – but 18 years on, investigators appear no closer to bringing a culprit to justice

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Hiding his face under a thick blue blanket in the back seat of a black Audi, Christian Brueckner was pictured being driven quickly past a waiting pack of journalists and out of a German prison on Wednesday morning.