Why police ran out of time to stop paedophile Christian Brueckner being released

Christian Brückner is due to be released from prison in Germany in relation to a separate offence.

Christian Brueckner to be released from German prison this week after serving seven-year sentence for rape

Scotland Yard made formal request to interview Christian Brueckner, due for release from seven-year rape sentence

Why police ran out of time to stop paedophile Christian Brueckner being released

Rapist Christian Brueckner plans to hide out in another country after he walks out of jail on Wednesday

Brueckner will be freed on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz two years before Madeleine vanished.

Authorities say they no longer have legal justification to hold Christian Brückner in jail after serving rape sentence

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

Met chief Mark Rowley says many questions remain and detectives are liaising with German and Portuguese police