The German suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance case has been released from prison.

Christian Brueckner is the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of the British toddler.

He has been released from a German prison where he has been serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime.

Prosecutors first named Brueckner as a suspect in 2020, when he was already serving a sentence for raping a 72-year-old woman in part of Portugal's Algarve region where Madeleine went missing.

Madeleine went missing on May 3, 2007, while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz, sparking a frenzied search and gaining the attention of the world's media.

She has never been found.

Earlier this week, Brueckner refused to be interviewed, police in the United Kingdom said.

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