MADDIE SUSPECT FREE IN 3 WEEKS

THE prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance will walk free from jail in three weeks.

- by JERRY LAWTON, Chief Reporter

Christian Brückner will be released on September 17 at the end of a seven-year prison sentence he is currently serving for rape, officials have said.

Lead prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters believes the 48-year-old is responsible for Madeleine's disappearance from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 when she was three.