Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner ‘writes begging letters to former associates asking them to speak about what a “good man” he’s in bid to clear his title’

The prime suspect within the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has written begging letters to his former associates asking them to speak about what a ‘good man’ he’s in courtroom in bid to clear his title, it has been claimed.

Christian Brueckner, a convicted rapist, moaned in a single letter to a pal that prosecutors have been making him out to be a ‘monster’.

Brueckner, who prosecutors say is ‘accountable’ for Madeleine’s 2007 kidnap and homicide, begged two his associates to assist him in courtroom if he has to face trial on separate rape and youngster intercourse prices. 

‘I do know of two individuals who bought the messages from Chris,’ Brueckner’s former pal who remains to be in contact with those that knew Brueckner within the Algarve instructed the Mirror. 

‘It actually freaked them out. They hadn’t heard from him in years after which these letters abruptly arrived within the publish from Germany.’ 

Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect within the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has written begging letters to his former associates asking them to speak about what a ‘good man’ he’s in courtroom in bid to clear his title, it has been claimed.

For greater than a decade, her anguished mother and father Gerry and Kate (pictured collectively in 2017) have waited in useless for any information – any clue – that their little woman is by some means alive in spite of everything this time

The German suspect had lived in a warehouse exterior Praia da Luz for a number of years however moved right into a campervan simply earlier than Madeleine vanished

The supply added: ‘He was asking them to talk in his defence, about what an excellent man he’s. He stated the German police and prosecutors have it in for him, that they’re saying he’s a monster. 

‘It is outrageous for Chris to ask for assist as a result of now everyone knows about his previous. Again after we have been hanging with him within the early 2000s it was all a secret. We did not know he was a paedophile. However now he does not stand an opportunity of anyone talking up for him in courtroom.’

Brueckner is presently languishing in a German jail for the rape of a 72-year-old American vacationer in Portugal simply 18 months earlier than Madeleine was kidnapped. 

His trial heard he deliberate the intercourse assault having damaged into the sufferer’s home with a rope to tie her up. She was blindfolded and gagged earlier than being raped and robbed.

Final 12 months, he was named as the important thing suspect within the disappearance and homicide of Madeleine, who vanished from her household’s vacation condo within the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in Might 2007 – only a few days earlier than her fourth birthday. However he has nonetheless not been charged concerning her abduction and he denies his involvement.

Brueckner was charged in a number of separate circumstances involving sexual offenses allegedly dedicated in Portugal between 2000 and 2017, together with the rape and sexual abuse of two youngsters. 

Though the courtroom in Braunschweig resulting from points referring to jurisdiction, it’s understood Brueckner might nonetheless be charged with the identical offences in a special courtroom in Germany. 

And in preparation for a possible trial, he has written letters to no less than two former associates begging them for assist. 

Madeleine vanished from a rented vacation condo in Praia da Luz in Portugal on Might 3, 2007, throughout a household vacation.

Her mother and father Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, spearheaded a high-profile marketing campaign for details about her disappearance.

The case, unsolved for the previous 16 years, stays a thriller as no physique has ever been discovered.

In June, German forensic specialists searched a reservoir 30 miles from Praia da Luz as a part of their ongoing investigation. Bruecker had known as the Arade reservoir his ‘little paradise’ after receiving ‘sure tip-offs’.

The reservoir is positioned close to the city of Silves, the place a lorry driver had claimed to see a girl passing off a toddler resembling Madeleine’s description to a person two days after the toddler disappeared. 

Investigators cleared a big space of woodland on the reservoir and dug eight deep holes to gather samples, which have been despatched for forensic and DNA testing in Germany.

However German police have reportedly hit a ‘roadblock’ after being left ‘disillusioned’ over the objects they discovered in the course of the search of the reservoir.

The reservoir lies about 45 minutes from Praia da Luz – the place Madeleine vanished with no hint in 2007 aged three

An space of round 160 sq. ft had been flattened and cleared of grass and shrubs with a number of holes dug into the bottom to a depth of round two ft in the course of the newest Madeleine McCann search within the Algarve, Portugal, on Might 25, 2023

German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who’s main the case, confirmed that a ‘number of items’ were seized during the search. 

Nevertheless, sources have now instructed The Sun that the objects retrieved haven’t helped them of their efforts to unravel the 16-year thriller.

A supply instructed the paper: ‘Sadly, it is wanting more and more just like the search of the reservoir is not going to present any solutions or recent leads.

‘It is too sturdy to say it was a waste of time, however officers are naturally actually disillusioned.’

The three-day scour of the reservoir was the primary main seek for the toddler in 9 years and comes after German police found images of Brueckner at his self-described ‘little paradise’ within the Portuguese area, it’s understood.

Brueckner would camp by the reservoir at weekends and is known to have arrange a base there to ‘cleanse himself’, it emerged final month.

A former pal of Brueckner, who has lived on Algarve for almost 30 years and has been serving to police with their investigation, claims the legal would go to the reservoir ‘typically’ however was ‘at all times secretive about it’.

The German mother-of-three, whose identification has not been made public, recalled how Brueckner would drive his campervan to the sting of the lake as a result of he ‘preferred to be close to the water’.

She claimed he at all times camped in the identical location and ‘there was normally nobody else round’.

‘This was his precise particular spot that he stated he preferred to return to cleanse himself,’ she stated of his campsite, telling The Solar: ‘I do not know what he did there as he was very secretive.’

Particulars of Brueckner’s secret lair got here to gentle as a British couple instructed The Mail on Sunday how they noticed a weird ‘shrine’ to Madeleine within the reservoir simply seven months after she vanished.

Christian Brueckner, 45, would camp within the Barragem do Arade reservoir the place cops final week looked for clues in Madeline McCann lacking individuals case. The convicted rapist and paedophile is known to have constructed a circle out of stones from the water (pictured)

Pictured: Christian Brueckner was filmed on the wheel of a battered VW campervan weeks earlier than Madeleine was kidnapped

Brueckner was formally named as a suspect in April 2022 after his yellow and white VW T3 Westfalia campervan was reportedly noticed close to the Praia da Luz resort

The retired couple, who’ve requested to be named solely as Ralf and Ann, have been so disturbed by what they noticed they took footage and despatched them to Portuguese detectives, considering they have been of significance however, amazingly, by no means heard again.

Consisting of boulders within the form of an arrow pointing in direction of a picnic web site which was dug over by police final week, the makeshift memorial was weighed down by a big rock and had a bouquet of flowers and {a photograph} of kidnapped Madeleine on it.

In the meantime, stories declare that telephone information place Brueckner within the city on the evening she vanished and that his yellow and white Volkswagen Westfalia campervan was noticed close to the Algarve resort.

In 2020, authorities revealed a phonecall had positioned Christian Brueckner in Praia da Luz, the place he lived from 1997 till 2007, across the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.

They traced the decision and located it related to the mast owned by the resort complicated the place the household had stayed. 

Brueckner had lived in a warehouse exterior the village for a number of years however moved right into a VW campervan simply earlier than Madeleine vanished. 

A Mail on Sunday investigation later discovered that Brueckner stayed in an outdated home in close by Foral between 2007 and 2008 – after Madeleine’s disappearance.

That 12 months, it was revealed {that a} witness claimed to have noticed Madeleine getting right into a German-owned VW van with a person simply weeks after her disappearance.

A police file detailed how a witness believed that had seen Madeleine rising from a restaurant within the Spanish seaside city of Alcossebre in japanese Spain, earlier than climbing into the van with an unidentified man.