Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner seduced young mother in ... trends now
The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case seduced a young mother in a chatroom used by 'paedophiles and sick people', where he told her he thought her three-year-old daughter was 'cute' and 'could be a model', a court heard yesterday.
Christian Brueckner, 47, who is currently on trial accused of carrying out separate sex attacks on women and children in Portugal, was said to have met his ex-girlfriend on the dating site in 2013, before she discovered it was 'where many paedophiles... operate'.
'At the beginning I thought it was about me,' the woman from Hanover, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court. 'But when I spoke to him, I mentioned my daughter. She was almost four … He said she was cute and could be a model.'
The witness claimed that Brueckner had also boasted to her about burgling holiday apartments at night, and alleged he had 'always' been drunk, but that she had not felt unsafe leaving her daughter alone with him.
Brueckner is also being investigated by German prosecutors, who believe he may have abducted Madeleine McCann, then three-years-old, from a rented holiday villa in Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Christian Brueckner arriving in court in Braunschweig, Germany, accused of sex offences
Madeleine McCann disappeared from a rented villa in Portugal in May 2007
Speaking at the court on Wednesday, Brueckner's former girlfriend testified that the convicted paedophile had asked her for pictures of her daughter after learning that she was three-years-old.
'He just said that he found her cute, and she could be a model,' she said, as reported by The Times.
The woman also suggested that despite having 'never [known] him sober', she never felt unsafe to leave him alone with her daughter when they went on dog walks.
Brueckner is still serving a seven-year sentence for the rape of an American pensioner, 72, in Praia da Luz in 2005.
In 2020, a year after his sentencing, he was named as the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case by German investigators.
Brueckner denies involvement in the disappearance.
Brueckner is now standing trial accused of raping a woman in Praia da Rocha in 2004, and abusing a teenage girl and a woman aged between 70 and 80 in Praia da Luz, where he lived, between December 2000 and June 2006.
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