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Madeleine McCann new evidence - BREAKING NEWS

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PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 05/06/2024 18:58

A Senior German detective has told a court that investigators had found emails on a Hotmail account used by Christian Brueckner that linked him directly to the Madeleine McCann case.

However, the detective was unable to share details of the evidence as it was 'related to the killing' of Madeleine. Brueckner, the prime suspect, is currently on trial in Germany for unrelated sex crimes.

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sprigatito · 05/06/2024 23:13

Haven't this poor family suffered enough for one poor judgment call? There has to be something wrong with anyone still putting the boot in after all these years. What they have been through is unimaginable.

Nopet · 05/06/2024 23:16

sprigatito · 05/06/2024 23:13

Haven't this poor family suffered enough for one poor judgment call? There has to be something wrong with anyone still putting the boot in after all these years. What they have been through is unimaginable.

Agree! Cannot imagine what the parents and family have had to endure.

Psychoticbreak · 05/06/2024 23:17

sprigatito · 05/06/2024 23:13

Haven't this poor family suffered enough for one poor judgment call? There has to be something wrong with anyone still putting the boot in after all these years. What they have been through is unimaginable.

Yes they have but apparently nobody wants to focus on the families of the victims that are currently facing this man in a court room for rape and child abuse offenses and instead focusing on what Kate and Gerry could or should have done.

Doteycat · 05/06/2024 23:19

OhshutupBarbara · 05/06/2024 21:58

As a parent who had children a similar age in the 90s/00s it was considered ok to eat very close to our apartment and regularly check. It was normal and never on our radar that a weirdo would steal our child.

Have to say I completely disagree with this comment. My DD was 3 months younger than Madeline, I also had a son who was 2 at the time and would never ever have left either one of them alone in an apartment. It was not considered an ok thing to do then just as it isnt now. Not blaming the parents, they have suffered the ultimate price for their mistake but not on any planet would it be ok to leave such young kids alone.

I too had children of the same age at the same time and not in a million years would i or any of my friends or family have done what they did. Ever. Not for a minute.

icallitasplodge · 05/06/2024 23:19

I don’t think the police are “sitting on the emails”. They are probably building a stone clad case so that he will be found guilty. Can you be tried for the same crime twice in Portugal?! Imagine if they acted prematurely and he got off on a technicality.

If they get him on the current charges, he is behind bars which is 💯 where he needs to be, and they can find informants without him going on the run. It may not even just be madeleine, there may be lots of other victims 😔

Mirabai · 05/06/2024 23:19

Raggydollz · 05/06/2024 19:44

Always thought he looked so much like the sketches from witnesses and descriptions.. hope they get him finally

So did I.

Superstar88 · 05/06/2024 23:22

will you leave a bike unlocked on a street? No because it will be stolen. this is just unfortunate rules of the world we live in, but it doesn’t make it ok to steal if the bike is unlocked. So please let’s stop talking about why they left the kid alone. The only guilty party is someone who took her away. Parents are victims as well here.

itspreposterous · 05/06/2024 23:24

He does look a lot like the sketches, it's probably very hard to charge someone with murder without a body but the evidence they do have on him is damning. Poor Madeline, I hope the family finally get some answers. They made a stupid mistake but have paid in the worst way imaginable.

Psychoticbreak · 05/06/2024 23:26

@itspreposterous he does and he looks like the person who raped woman and abused children in the same area too and they are the ones currently going to trial and seeing this man every day. The victims in court right now and the last few months are the ones that are effectively helping the McCanns but again nobody is talking about them instead.

GellerYeller · 05/06/2024 23:27

I’m pretty sure we also had listening services in UK hotels too. I seem to remember my college friends working part time in quite a smart local place and being given that responsibility. Didn’t holiday camps offer babysitters too back in the day?

IDontSleepIDream · 05/06/2024 23:28

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andjustlikethat1 · 05/06/2024 23:35

Parentingproblems101 · 05/06/2024 21:44

If this is true I hope the people who have said the McCanns killed her are eating their words. I also hope that family starts to get closure if this is the case.

I agree ☝️

INeedToClingToSomething · 05/06/2024 23:36

I really hope something comes of this and the McCanns can finally get closure.

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So if he did it he would have been convicted but you're suggesting the Mcannns murdered their daughter and got away with it?

AnneElliott · 05/06/2024 23:38

The comments about the police are unfair. The Met was asked to investigate by the Home Office which is why it's fully funded. The investigation is of no benefit to the force - in fact it removed one of their major investigation teams for several years.

Psychoticbreak · 05/06/2024 23:38

INeedToClingToSomething · 05/06/2024 23:36

I really hope something comes of this and the McCanns can finally get closure.

I hope something comes of this as in the current court case with the actual victims of rape and child abuse facing him and them giving their evidence that can help in Madelines case.

TurquoiseDress · 05/06/2024 23:42

cliffside · 05/06/2024 22:25

Everything that can be said about the morality of them leaving them in the apartment has been said. Everything. There are no new opinions.

Absolutely

People need to move beyond this

Let's hope they have enough evidence to convict him...but where is/what did he do with Madeleine Sad

ItsNotAShopItsAStore · 05/06/2024 23:48

Oh my god.

I hope the German authorities do the right thing and give the parents and siblings answers they need. I can’t imagine the torture of not knowing what happened.

I feel like if a crime happens in a country you don’t live in the stakes are against you, and authorities just shrug it off as being a foreigner’s problem

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 05/06/2024 23:48

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In the boot of a car they hired after she'd disappeared with the world's press watching and recording their every move. How do you suggest they got her in there without being seen?

ItsNotAShopItsAStore · 05/06/2024 23:50

cliffside · 05/06/2024 22:25

Everything that can be said about the morality of them leaving them in the apartment has been said. Everything. There are no new opinions.

Indeed.

And no one, absolutely no one will replay this in their minds more than Kate and Gerry McCann. It doesn’t affect a single person on this thread to rehash it, and the time to stop was long ago

IDontSleepIDream · 05/06/2024 23:52

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 05/06/2024 23:48

In the boot of a car they hired after she'd disappeared with the world's press watching and recording their every move. How do you suggest they got her in there without being seen?

I’m only saying what the police dogs found. I believe dogs can’t lie?

Lavenderandbrown · 05/06/2024 23:54

It’s a cautionary tale…my reading of the case mentions police long suspected a pedophile ring in the area. When the parents showed up to dinner sans children whoever was watching them knew the children could be unattended. The room checking at predictable 15 min intervals made it more obvious. My children born in 98/01 were never left alone AT HOME definetly not a hotel or resort. It was not a common practice amongst parents I knew. The Mc Caans were being watched and unwittingly they provided a window of access. a tragedy to be learned from.

Probablyfinebutworried · 05/06/2024 23:59

IDontSleepIDream · 05/06/2024 23:52

I’m only saying what the police dogs found. I believe dogs can’t lie?

They can definitely do false 'alerts' though.

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sprigatito · 05/06/2024 23:13

Haven't this poor family suffered enough for one poor judgment call? There has to be something wrong with anyone still putting the boot in after all these years. What they have been through is unimaginable.

I totally agree. I do hope that they soon start to get some answers and some closure.

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