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Lawyer's plea as Brueckner due out of jail within days

Daily Mirror UK

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September 10, 2025

Let Maddie suspect lead a normal life...

- BY PATRICK HILL

CHRISTIAN Brueckner's lawyer says he does not believe his client will be charged over the Madeleine McCann case and must be allowed to live a “normal life” after prison.

Brueckner is to be released from a German jail by next Wednesday after a seven-year term for raping and beating a US pensioner in Portugal in 2005.

He is the prime suspect in the disappearance of then three-year-old Madeleine in the Algarve in May 2007.

In a blow to her parents Kate and Gerry, Brueckner's lawyer Friedrich Fuelscher said: "I do not expect any indictment in the Maddie case. I do not expect an indictment at all.

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