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Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is no longer under continuous police surveillance in Germany following a court ruling. He will still wear an electronic ankle tag, but concerns have been raised that it may malfunction if he leaves the country.
Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, is no longer under round-the-clock police surveillance following a court ruling, despite concerns he might flee Germany. Authorities in Schleswig-Holstein have appealed this decision, and Brueckner is expected to wear an electronic ankle tag, although past malfunctions raise doubts about its effectiveness.
German police in Schleswig-Holstein have appealed the court’s decision to lift continuous surveillance on Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Prosecutors plan to maintain police observation of Brueckner until a final ruling is made by the court, amid concerns he could evade monitoring due to malfunctioning electronic tags if he leaves Germany.
What remains unclear — It is not confirmed whether Brueckner will remain under police observation following the appeals regarding his surveillance order.
Christian Brueckner no longer under constant police surveillance, concerns arise
Christian Brueckner has been under constant police surveillance since his release (Picture: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)
The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is reportedly no longer under 24.7 police surveillance.
There are fears Christian Brueckner could disappear nine months after he was released from prison last September.
The paedophile had been followed non-stop by officers since his freedom but a court ruled the police observation was no longer required.
Brueckner will still wear an electronic ankle tagto monitor his location, but prosecutors say the tech has malfunctioned in the past.
The prime suspect served a prison sentence in Germany last year (Picture: Getty)
Sources claim the tag will fail to work if he leaves Germany, warning he could soon vanish out of sight.
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A source told The Sun: ‘The fear has always been that as soon as Brueckner got the opportunity he would disappear.
‘He might have been let out of jail but he still hasn’t had that because he has been monitored by police all day every day.
‘Once that surveillance stops who knows what will happen.
‘He has a history of leaving the country when he faces suspicion so there is a very real danger he will disappear before the McCann case can ever get to court.’
German cops in the Schleswig-Holstein state are understood to have appealed the decision not to renew the surveillance order.
Brueckner will remain under police observation until the court has made a final decision.
Madeleine was three when she vanished from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz on the Algarve while on a break with her siblings and parents.
Prime suspect and convicted rapist Brueckner was released after serving a prison sentence in his native Germany last September.
Madeleine McCann has been missing for 19 years (Picture: Getty)
He had been serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime. In addition to his conviction for the rape of the woman in the Algarve, he also has convictions for child abuse and drug trafficking.
State prosecutors in Germany have said there is circumstantial evidence suggesting Brueckner was involved in Maddie’s disappearance, including three witnesses who said he had confessed to them.
He lived in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, with a period spent working as a pool maintenance assistant at the Praia da Luz resort, where the McCanns were staying when their daughter vanished.
But extensive searches for more direct evidence have ended without success.
He has denied any involvement in her disappearance and has never been charged with any crimes in connection with Madeleine.
In March, it was announced that more funding had been granted to continue to investigate the disappearance.
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
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Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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