Sunday People

I want the cops to dig for Inga,5

- By Patrick Hill in Braunschwe­ig, Germany

CHRISTIAN Bruckner may have buried the body of a missing child known as the German Maddie at his allotment, fears the new owner of the land.

Bruckner was quizzed but never charged after Inga Gehricke, five, vanished in 2015 near where he lived in Braunschwe­ig.

Today’s owner, a 30-yearold woman, said her fear stems from the allotment’s isolated location plus the fact that Bruckner was the tenant when tragic Inga went missing.

And one of Bruckner’s old friends even suggested the possibilit­y to her.

The woman, a tour guide, told the Sunday People: “I am worried he may have buried a body here. I want the police to dig the ground and check.” Bruckner owned a house on the allotment from August 2013 to April 2016. The current owner added: “The police have said nothing since I phoned and have not been to visit. I’m disappoint­ed.

“They came here in person in 2016 at 8am and asked me if I know him. I said no and they said goodbye. After 2016 no one from the police has come.”

The woman added: “I don’t feel comfortabl­e in the house now. I don’t know if I will stay living here.”

A former Bruckner pal, who knows the woman, said: “There was a hole in the floor inside the allotment house and one day he told me he wanted to put a see-through perspex glass over it.

“I said to him, ‘What the hell for? Just so you can look down into a dirty old cellar?’

“In retrospect I think he wanted to build a Fritzl cellar like the guy in Austria who put his daughter down there.”

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GRAVE? Garden
SUSPECT: Jailed rapist Bruckner
UNSURPRISE­D: Bruckner’s former lawyer Mr Vieira, the suspect’s camper van and Madeleine
VANISHED: German Inga GRAVE? Garden SUSPECT: Jailed rapist Bruckner UNSURPRISE­D: Bruckner’s former lawyer Mr Vieira, the suspect’s camper van and Madeleine
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