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. 5

Der Spiegel said his passport had been canceled, 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 Marquort

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