I FOUND MADDIE BEAST UNDER MY BED
RevelaTions Our front page yesterday BY MaRTin fRicKeR in Praia da Luz and Dan WaRbURTon A CRUCIAL third vehicle that could help solve the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been linked to suspect Christian Brueckner.
His British ex-girlfriend says the German paedophile was driving the battered Volkswagen estate around the time the three-year-old vanished.
Detectives investigating Brueckner’s potential involvement released images of two vehicles linked to him – a black Jaguar and a two-tone camper van.
But now his ex has sensationally revealed he owned a third car, details of which have never been made public.
The woman, from Berkshire, said he began driving the estate in mid-2005, two years before Madeleine disappeared.
He also owned the black Jaguar at this time but had not yet bought the camper van featured in police photographs.
His ex has been interviewed about the vehicles Brueckner was driving, but is unsure if she mentioned the VW estate to them.
Police in Germany have not disclosed if Madeleine’s DNA has been discovered in Brueckner’s camper van or Jaguar.
But with German prosecutors saying they do not currently have enough evidence to charge him, the suggestion is they have not found any.
The undiscovered VW estate, therefore, if traced, could hold the clues to finally crack the case.
His ex, a mum aged 45, who we have agreed not to name, has given detectives crucial leads about their main suspect. They include details of his associates in the Algarve and Germany, the layout of his home in Praia da Luz, and remote beaches that he took her to.
The Record revealed yesterday how she dated the German for nearly a year during 2004 and 2005, when they both worked in the same bar in Lagos in the Algarve.
She told how he broke into her flat through a window and hid under her bed, hours after he brutally attacked her in a jealous rage when she innocently hugged another man.
Brueckner allegedly repeatedly slammed her head against a wall in the toilets of the bar where she worked.
The woman now believes that Brueckner, who is in prison in Germany, could be responsible
Madeleine McCann