Attorneys defending Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner assert ‘new facts’ establish he is not a rapist and must be released from jail.
Convicted paedophile Brueckner, 45, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007, is currently in a jail in Germany for the brutal 2005 rape of a US nationwide, then 72, in Praia da Luz.
But his law firm, Friedrich Fuelscher, 38, promises that evidence of a noticeable scar or some kind of marking on his thigh, which served set him away in 2019, is invalid, as Brueckner has no these kinds of scar.
Justice campaigners for Madeleine McCann will be alarmed at the prospect of the prime suspect in her disappearance being exonerated, as it is feared he would vanish as quickly as he is introduced.
Fuelscher has reported the new details relate to statements built by one more alleged rape sufferer of Brueckner, Irishwoman Hazel Behan, who claimed the person who raped her in 2004 when she was 20 had a scar on his thigh.
Brueckner has been the main suspect in McCann’s situation for two many years but so far no expenses relating to her have been brought from him
On May well 3, 2007, Madeleine McCann disappeared aged a few from her bed in Praia da Luz, Portugal
But Brueckner lately experienced his thighs examined in a bid to expose that he does not have a marking like this on this aspect of his body.
The ‘new facts’ relaxation on the outcome of an ‘operative circumstance analysis’, by Germany’s edition of the FBI, the Federal Legal Law enforcement Office environment (BKA), which indicated that the two rapes were being dedicated by the identical attacker, Fuelscher claims.
He argues that considering the fact that Bruckner does not have a scar on his thigh, it would signify he is not only innocent of the 2004 rape of Ms Behan, but he also are not able to be the person who raped the US national in 2005 for which he is presently in jail.
The German prosecution thinks that both of those Ms Behan and the US pensioner have been raped by the identical perpetrator, and Fuelscher hopes that he can establish that Brueckner did not rape Ms Behan.
Fuelscher suggests that this revelation could convert the tables on the prosecution which ended up placing Brueckner driving bars for the 2005 rape in Portugal.
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Brueckner is at this time serving his sentence at a large-safety prison locally dubbed the ‘Alcatraz of The North’ in the town of Oldenburg, close to the northern city of Bremen.
Fuelscher has now submitted an software to the Braunschweig Regional Courtroom to reopen the 2005 rape case which took area in Portugal.
Nevertheless, he reported there is tiny opportunity that the case will be reconsidered.
‘Only a vanishingly compact proportion of programs for readmission are successful’ said Fuelscher.
‘One sees a excellent electrical power of the felony justice program, which attempts to ward off each attack on the outdated judgement tooth and claw.’
When contacted, Friedrich Fuelscher was unavailable for remark.
Brueckner has been beneath investigation by German officials above the disappearance of Madeleine McCann for two yrs.
The prosecutor major the scenario, Mr Wolters, consistently refused to say if the key suspect had damaged into the Praia da Luz apartment and grabbed the 3-year-outdated from her bed on May well 3, 2007.
Mr Wolters explained Brueckner’s alibi about acquiring sex with a girlfriend at the time of the abduction experienced fallen apart.
Madeleine McCann would have turned 18 last calendar year. In 2012, five a long time immediately after her disappearance, her relatives issued an age progression e-match image to exhibit what Madeleine could have looked like aged 9 (suitable)
But he admitted his staff do not have the forensic proof to place the paedophile primary suspect in the dock amid statements that fibres from the Maddie’s pink Eeyore pyjamas experienced been identified in his yellow VW camper van.
Mr Wolters hinted that Brueckner, 45, may well have experienced an accomplice, by refusing to say if he was selected the German took Maddie from her parents’ holiday getaway apartment at Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coastline on May 3, 2007.
Mr Wolters also explained they experienced nonetheless not worked out who created a mysterious 30-minute cell phone get in touch with to Brueckner, positioning him near to where by Madeleine disappeared on the evening she went lacking.
But when asked if he was positive that it was Brueckner who broke into the Ocean Club apartment and took her, he twice repeated that he thought that he was the killer but would not remark on who snatched the British 3-year-old.
He stated: ‘We are guaranteed that he is the murderer of Madeleine McCann. We are certain that he killed Madeleine McCann.’
