BERLIN (Reuters) -The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann is due to be released on Wednesday from the German prison where he has been serving a seven-year prison sentence for an unrelated sex crime.

German prosecutors first named Christian Brueckner a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving the sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in part of Portugal’s Algarve region where McCann went missing.

His prison term ends on Wednesday. Der Spiegel said his passport had been cancelled, he will be electronically tagged, must declare a place of residence and cannot leave without permission.

“This is an attempt by prosecutors to keep him in a kind of investigative detention where they have access to him at all times,” Der Spiegel quoted lawyer Philipp

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