Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner's lawyer has sensationally admitted he understands 'concerns' over his client's sickening child sex and rape convictions.

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