Brueckner was released after serving six years of a seven-year sentence at Sehnde prison for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman at her home in Praia da Luz, Portugal in 2005.

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

Investigators spent several hours quizzing a couple who housed the sex offender just three months before Madeleine vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal, in May…

Brueckner was released after serving six years of a seven-year sentence at Sehnde prison for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman at her home in Praia da Luz, Portugal in 2005.

German paedophile Christian Brueckner, who is the chief suspect in Madeleine McCann 's disappearance, was released last week at the end of an unrelated rape term.