Fears for Madeleine McCann case as prosecutor admits Brueckner ‘WON’T be charged soon’ & top suspect will be set free
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THE Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner will not be charged anytime soon and could walk free, the case's chief prosecutor has admitted. The paedophile, 47, remains the main suspect in the three-year-old's 2007 abduction. The German is currently in prison serving a sentence for the rape of an American woman in Portugal’s Algarve in 2005.
![[Christian B., suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance, at a court hearing.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-christian-b-suspect-disappearance-939229171.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
He is expected to be released in September as his seven-year sentence is due to end - while investigators in three countries are desperately working to find evidence against him. Prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters told Sky: "There is currently no prospect of an indictment in the Maddie case.
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"As things stand, the accused Christian B's imprisonment will end in early September.". A court source clarified that prosecutors are mainly focused in appealing the rape and child abuse charges he was cleared of back in October. They said: "Prosecutors aren’t afraid of charging over Maddie - but their priority is appealing against the charges he was cleared of last year.
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"They believe a retrial is the best way to keep him behind bars. "First the judge has to deliver the verdict in writing, then Wolters continues the appeal at the German next higher court and the highest German court, the BGH Federal Court. "Both appeals he had started already but Wolters can only continue when the judge has delivered her verdict in writing. She has not done that yet, but has a time limit that is ending soon.”.
![[Apartment building in Luz, Algarve, Portugal.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/file-photo-dated-08-05-319269467.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
