The case against Christian Brueckner, the man currently under investigation in relation to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is reportedly "set to crumble" after it was found the sex offender had an alibi at the time the British toddler went missing.
Brueckner was revealed as the prime suspect in the case in June 2020, more than 13 years after the three-year-old went missing from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, sparking one of the most followed missing persons cases in history. British authorities at the time said the suspect's number received a call in Praia da Luz the night McCann disappeared.
However, a new television documentary, which is yet to air, may throw that into doubt.
The three-part show features ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas investigating Brueckner's connection to the disappearance. A promotion for the three-part show says Williams-Thomas has secured interviews with Brueckner's accusers, former friends, neighbours and others who have never spoken to media.
The Sun reports a source as saying the show has "concluded B could not have snatched Madeleine" as his alibi "stacks up".
"He was 30 minutes away and was not on the phone in Praia da Luz the night she vanished."
The Sun and other media report the case against the German man is now "set to crumble".
Brueckner was living in the area McCann went missing from at the time of her disappearance and is currently imprisoned in Germany for sexual contact with girls, drug crimes, and raping an elderly woman in Praia da Luz. He's also been linked to other missing children cases.
While British authorities continue to treat the case as a missing persons one, German investigators believe McCann is dead.
The latest revelation comes despite prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters saying in October that he was "100 percent convinced" Brueckner had killed the child and that investigators had the evidence to charge him.
No charges have yet been brought in connection to McCann, Wolters said, as the prosecutors want to secure "the best body of evidence possible" and not rush into charging him as the suspect is already in prison.
The evidence the German prosecutors have is currently "circumstantial", he said. One example he gave was a recording of a phone call from Brueckner near to the Praia da Luz apartment.
Brueckner has denied being involved with McCann's vanishing, calling himself an "innocent person" in a letter obtained by German media in June. Brueckner said the prosecutors were engaged in a "scandalous pre-denial campaign in the present against me as an innocent person" and were "not suitable for an office as a lawyer for the honest and trusting German people".
