The only suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be released from prison in a matter of weeks.

Christian Brueckner will be released on September 17 after serving a sentence for an unrelated rape conviction, the lead prosecutor investigating Maddie’s case confirmed.

Hans Christian Wolters said the prime suspect had to leave prison, despite believing the 48-year-old is still dangerous.

Brueckner has denied being involved in Madeleine’s disappearance in Praia da Luz, Portugal, and has not been charged in relation to it. He is known to have been in the Praia da Luz area between 2000 and 2017, and is in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.

Then aged three, Maddie vanished while on holiday with her family in the Algarve resort after her parents went out to

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