{"id":142908,"date":"2025-09-17T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142908\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:50:06","slug":"madeleine-mccann-suspect-christian-bruckner-freed-from-german-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142908\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Br\u00fcckner freed from German prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madeleine vanished in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007. She and her siblings had been left sleeping in a holiday apartment while her parents, Kate and Gerry, went to a nearby restaurant.<\/p>\n

Madeleine’s disappearance has become one of the highest-profile unsolved missing person cases in the world.<\/p>\n

German prosecutors have pointed to evidence – including mobile phone data – indicating Br\u00fcckner may have been in the area when she vanished, and have consistently insisted that they think he is responsible.<\/p>\n

However, they have not found strong enough evidence to bring charges. <\/p>\n

Br\u00fcckner, who spent many years in the Algarve, was a drifter, a petty criminal and a convicted sex offender. He has several previous convictions, including for sexually abusing children in 1994 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Portuguese and German police conducted a fresh search between where the McCanns had been staying and addresses linked to Br\u00fcckner in June this year, but this yielded no breakthroughs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madeleine vanished in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in 2007. She and her siblings had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-142908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}