Madeleine McCann, 3, disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal
German authorities say they have discovered an email account “linked to the killing” of missing three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann.
Titus Stampa, a detective at the Federal Criminal Police Office, testified in court that the Hotmail account belonged to Christian Brueckner. Just from London.
According to the Times, Stampa said he was not allowed to discuss the account.
Brueckner, who is considered the main suspect in the alleged murder and disappearance of Madeleine, is on trial in another case of rape and child sexual abuse. telegraph He has denied having anything to do with Madeleine’s disappearance, according to Evening standard.
Stampa claimed that authorities found a second email account through which he distributed photos and videos of child abuse, and that the emails from that account were deleted in early 2007 when Madeleine disappeared, according to the telegraph.
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“I remember that a lot of things were deleted from the inbox. From January 2007 onwards there was nothing there,” he said, according to the telegraph.
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Madeleine disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal. Her parents left her and her two-year-old twin siblings in an unlocked rental house while they ate at a restaurant 40 metres away. When Madeleine’s mother Kate went to check on the children, Madeleine had disappeared. Her parents were initially considered suspects in her disappearance, but the following year they were exonerated by authorities.
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According to police, on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance, Brueckner was in the Praia de Luz area and received a phone call that lasted almost 30 minutes.
In mid-2020, German authorities identified him as the main suspect in connection with the girl’s disappearance. No charges were ever brought against him.
In 2019, he was convicted of raping a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal in 2005.
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