Christian Brueckner’s emails link him to Madeleine McCann case, investigators say

German police have discovered an email account linking Christian Brueckner to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, investigators have claimed.

Titus Stampa, a senior detective, told a court in Germany that investigators had discovered emails in a Hotmail account used by Brueckner that linked him directly to the case.

The surprising revelation is the first time an official working on the case has claimed to have evidence connecting Brueckner, the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance, to the case.

But Stampa said he could not share details of the evidence because it was “related to the murder” of the British boy.

Brueckner is currently on trial in Germany for unrelated sexual crimes. He denies being involved in Madeleine’s disappearance.

Undated file photo of Madeleine McCann

In his intervention before the regional court of Braunschweig, in Germany, Stampa referred to the account of the “murder” that Brueckner supposedly possessed.

He declined to say whether the recovered emails included photos or videos implicating the suspect.

Stampa claimed that police had found a second account in which Brueckner, a convicted pedophile, had shared media about child abuse with other abusers.

Brueckner allegedly deleted all emails from that account in early 2007, when Madeleine disappeared from a hotel in Praia da Luz, Portugal, Stampa said.

Brueckner is suspected of taking young Madeleine from a bedroom in the family’s vacation apartment at the Ocean Club resort on May 3, 2007.

German officials named Brueckner as their main suspect in 2020, and international authorities have continued to investigate the disappearance in the years since.

Prosecutors gained access to a secret email account containing images of abuse after an appeal to Microsoft in 2019.

Now a court in Germany has heard how Brueckner allegedly attempted to delete “many emails” showing filmed abuse of children as young as “three or four years old.”