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Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has arrived in court docket for his ongoing intercourse trial with a former associate in crime resulting from testify first.
Convicted rapist Brueckner, 47, is accused of three rapes and two intercourse assaults mentioned to have been carried out on Portugal’s Algarve coast in a interval from 2000 to 2017.
The assaults happened simply minutes from the place then three-year-old Madeleine vanished from the vacation condominium in Praia da Luz in Could 2007 the place she was staying with mother and father Kate and Gerry and her siblings.
She has not been seen since and in June 2020 German police sensationally named Brueckner as the person accountable for her ‘abduction and homicide’ however he has but to be charged with something referring to her disappearance.
Brueckner arrived in a van with a police escort and was swept inside for the beginning of the listening to and escorted into the courtroom at Braunschweig, close to Hannover, flanked by guards and carrying handcuffs.
Convicted rapist Brueckner, 47, is accused of three rapes and two intercourse assaults. He’s pictured arriving at court docket
Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has arrived in court docket for his ongoing intercourse trial with a former associate in crime resulting from testify first
The case shouldn’t be straight associated to Madeleine and Brueckner denies any involvement in her disappearance
Bar proprietor Manfred Seyferth, 68, is because of give proof for the prosecution and in earlier interviews has described Brueckner as a ‘dangerous, dangerous man’.
In 2019 Seyferth and his pal Helge Busching, 50, helped jail Brueckner for seven years after describing how they’d discovered a video digital camera at his home displaying him raping an aged lady at her Algarve dwelling in 2005.
Seyferth lived in a caravan subsequent to Christian’s home a couple of minutes drive from Praia da Luz, from the place then three 12 months previous Madeleine vanished in Could 2007.
Petty criminal Seyferth and Busching. additionally described within the 2019 case, they’d seen footage of a younger teenage lady additionally being attacked and recognised the perpetrator as Brueckner.
In an earlier interview Seyferth mentioned Brueckner was an ‘evil psychopath’ ‘able to taking a small youngster’.
He added: ‘Christian is a nasty, dangerous man. He’s evil.
‘I by no means favored him and he’s a psychopath. He’s obsessive about babies, and I did not prefer it.
‘He all the time had a younger girlfriend with him and I believe he’s simply able to taking a small youngster.’
In 2007, Seyferth lived in a caravan subsequent to Christian’s home, a couple of minutes drive from Praia da Luz.
Madeleine McCann (pictured) went lacking on Could 3, 2007 on the age of simply three. She has by no means been discovered. Christian Brueckner has been named by German prosecutors as their chief suspect in her disappearance
Speaking of that point, he admitted: ‘I stole some diesel and a few photo voltaic panels.
‘I am a thief however I do not do anything — not like Christian who’s sick.’
Seyferth additionally revealed he and Busching had discovered a gun in Brueckner’s condominium however had panicked and thrown it into a close-by reservoir.
He added:’After Maddie disappeared, I did not see him (Brueckner) for a number of months till a hippy pageant in Orgiva (Spain) a 12 months later.
Seyferth mentioned he knew that Brueckner was robbing holidaymakers within the Portuguese resort that 12 months.
On the 2019 trial in Braunschweig – the identical venue as his present listening to – the court docket heard from Seyferth and Busching and their testimony was pivotal in nailing him.
They described how they’d discovered a horrific video in Brueckner’s Portuguese dwelling that confirmed him torturing after which raping the aged American lady.
Different footage was mentioned to point out a younger teenage lady tied to a wood submit as she begged for assist whereas he sexually abused her.
Seyferth mentioned: ‘He’s evil due to the issues I noticed on the video with the previous lady and the lady.
The chief suspect within the disappearance of Madeleine McCann – Christian Brueckner – seems in court docket at first of a sexual assault trial in Germany
‘It wasn’t a younger lady like Madeleine, she was older, possibly 15 years previous and that was the standard age of his girlfriends.’
Speaking about how he testified towards Brueckner on the rape trial, Seyferth mentioned:’After I noticed him in court docket, he made me shiver. He has a chilly arduous face and evil eyes.’
Final week the present trial heard how Irish tour rep Hazel Behan, who has waived her anonymity, feared she could be ‘beheaded’ by Brueckner after he attacked and raped her.
He’s additionally accused of raping two different girls together with an unidentified 70–80-year-old and a 14-year-old.
Additional fees additionally embrace indecent assault towards a 10-year-old German lady and a 11-year-old Portuguese lady.
All the fees are mentioned to have taken place between 2000 and 2017 and on Portugal’s Algarve coast.
Christian Brueckner was named chief suspect in Madeleine’s disappearance in 2020
The case shouldn’t be straight associated to Madeleine and Brueckner denies any involvement in her disappearance and his lawyer Friedrich Fulscher has additionally mentioned he isn’t linked to the present trial.
In his opening remarks Mr Fulscher mentioned Seyferth and Busching had been ‘unreliable’ resulting from identified drug and alcohol points.
Mr Fulscher additionally claimed police had bugged conversations Brueckner had held together with his authorized crew as a way to see if he would incriminate himself on Madeleine and the opposite instances.
He added because of the hyperlink with Madeleine his consumer had been beneath ‘worldwide media hearth’ however as but ‘no fees had been introduced’ and no ‘recordsdata offered’.
Mr Fulscher mentioned:’ The best problem for the court docket in these proceedings shall be to free itself from these ulterior motives when investigating the procedural reality and assessing the proof with regard to the accusations levelled.’
The trial continues.
