A woman who was sexually assaulted by Madeleine McCann’s prime suspect Christian Brueckner has revealed he smiled at her while performing a horrific sex act on her on an Algarve beach when she was just ten.
The woman, now 27, told the German sex offender’s trial that he “was waiting” behind a rock on a beach in the Portuguese town of Salema in 2007.
The woman, a German who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she remembered Brueckner, 47, because of his broad smile and distinctive smile.
‘I remember large birthmarks distributed over the body, back and legs. Just spread out, not in one place but in many along his back. It was just the birthmarks I noticed and that smile,” he said, according to the Mirror.
She said she was left “distraught” and crying after the assault, in which Brueckner, currently on trial for a series of rapes and indecent assaults in Portugal between 2000 and 2017, grabbed her by the wrists and performed an indecent sexual act on her. .
A woman who was sexually assaulted by Christian Brueckner (pictured) revealed he smiled at her while performing a horrific sex act on her.
Brueckner has denied all charges and any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (pictured).
The woman was sexually assaulted on a beach in Salema, Portugal (pictured)
Brueckner, currently serving a seven-year sentence for sexually assaulting a pensioner, allegedly told her to “look here” as he performed the sexual act on her, just meters from where her parents were sitting, without realizing what he was doing. happening.
The woman told the court: ‘The man came, came down from the rock and asked me what my name was. He said my name and then he grabbed my hands.
He added that his family contacted police after the attack and helped detectives put together an E-fit image.
But it wasn’t until 2019 that police contacted her again and told her they had identified a possible suspect.
While she told the court she was only 50% sure Brueckner was her attacker, despite identifying him in “six or seven” images, she said her own “investigation” led her to conclude he was the man who attacked her. .
Brueckner allegedly told her to ‘look here’ while he performed the sexual act on her.
Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year sentence for sexually assaulting a pensioner.
But the rapist’s defense accused the woman of “coupling” her investigation to her memories.
They also criticized the police for showing him photographs of Brueckner and his cars, claiming that this made his testimony “simply useless”.
Brueckner has denied all charges and any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The German woman’s testimony in court comes after an Irish woman revealed how she is still physically suffering from a brutal sexual attack allegedly carried out by Christian Brueckner 20 years ago.
Former tour guide Hazel Behan, 40, who waived her anonymity, tearfully described her ordeal at the hands of the convicted rapist and pedophile.
Mrs Behan told the court in Braunschweig, Germany, that she had been raped in June 2004 by a masked man who then whipped her and filmed her in her apartment in Praia da Roch, just minutes from the town of Praia da Luz. on the Algarve Coast, where Madeleine, who was three years old at the time, was kidnapped in May 2007.
The former Irish tour guide, who broke down in tears as Brueckner’s defense team carried out a brutal interrogation, revealed she was still bleeding as a result of the horrific sexual attack.
