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British police officers involved in the hunt for Madeleine McCann will be asked to testify to the ongoing trial of prime suspect Christian Brueckner, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.
The sensational development means for the first time detectives from Scotland Yard who have been investigating the 2007 disappearance of then three year old Madeleine will have to disclose under oath what they know.
MailOnline has been told that the officer dealing with key witness Helge Busching, detective constable Mark Draycott, will be summoned to give testimony at Brueckner's current trial for unrelated sex crimes.
DC Draycott was the Scotland Yard officer who took Busching's statement in 2017 in a hotel room in the Greek capital of Athens where he told police of his fears that Brueckner was involved in Madeleine's disappearance.
At the time Busching, 50, had just been released from a people smuggling conviction and according to Greek media reports he contacted Operation Grange to tip them off about his suspicions.
British police officers involved in the hunt for Madeleine McCann will be asked to testify to the ongoing trial of prime suspect Christian Brueckner (pictured in court earlier this week), MailOnline can exclusively reveal
Madeleine McCann (pictured) went missing on May 3, 2007 at the age of just three. She has never been found. Criminal Christian Brueckner has been named by German prosecutors as their chief suspect in her disappearance
It was in this statement that he told Operation Grange that Brueckner, 47, said to him at a hippy festival in Orgiva, Spain, that Madeleine 'didn't scream' when she was taken from the holiday apartment where she was staying.
Officers from Operation Grange contacted counterparts in Germany and Brueckner's background convictions for rape and paedophile emerged and as a result he became the prime suspect.
In 2011 under the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, Scotland Yard was asked to take over the investigation following a request from her boss PM David Cameron and Operation Grange was set up.
Since then they have been given more than £13 million and last month MailOnline revealed they had applied for a further grant of £100,000 which was
