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Madeleine McCann suspect's grim letter from inside prison: 'Torture'

The prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance has reportedly written a 14-page letter complaining about his treatment in prison calling it "torture".

Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner wrote a lengthy letter to the Ministry of Justice in Germany.

Brueckner, 45, is a convicted rapist and denies allegations he was involved in the then-three-year-old's disappearance.

A photo of Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007 when she was three years old.
Madeleine McCann has been missing since 2007. Source: PA

He is in prison for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman in Praia da Luz, the Portuguese town Madeleine disappeared from 14 years ago.

Brueckner 'afraid' he'll be attacked in jail

German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Bruckner compared time in prison to “torture”, claiming he received "insults and death threats” after a TV documentary about him aired.

According to The Mirror, Brueckner told the Ministry he was too scared to leave his jail cell over fearing other prisoners would attack him.

“I’m self-isolating since there is a high probability of [an] attack by inmates," he wrote, as per the publication.

“In the beginning, the fellow prisoners held back because they knew who I was, but had too little information about it.”

Brueckner said he stopped working in the prison factory because he was afraid of what the other prisoners could do.

"Should any of the inmates want to seriously injure me or kill me, the locksmith shop is the ideal place. Tools are lying around and it is possible a sharp blade can be found in seconds," he wrote.

Christian Brueckner is the sole suspect in the Madeleine McCann case and is serving a seven year prison sentence for rape.
Christian Brueckner is the sole suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. Source: AP

Inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance will end this year

German police identified Brueckner as a prime suspect in Madeleine's disappearance in 2020. Prosecutors were “very confident” they would be able to charge him at the time.

"If you knew the evidence we had you would come to the same conclusion as I do,” lead investigator Hans Christian Wolters told the BBC in 2020.

“What we have so far doesn't allow any other conclusion at all.”

This week The Sun reported Operation Grange, which was launched in 2011 by the Metropolitan Police, will come to an end this year and it's unlikely Brueckner will be charged.

The Telegraph reported funding for the inquiry is set to run out on March 31, 2022. The Metropolitan Police have applied for another grant that could see it extended to September.

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