MADELEINE SUSPECT ON THE LOOSE!

U.K. authorities gun for ex-con to wrap up cold case

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THE prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese resort has been released from a German prison where he was serving time for an unrelated crime.

But now British authorities are considering extraditing him to the U.K. to stand trial in Madeleine's case.

Christian Brückner, 48, who served a seven-year sentence for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2005, was recently released from a penitentiary near Hanover, Germany.