Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner allegedly boasted about how turned on he was by tying up, beating and raping an elderly woman.
Brueckner, a 47-year-old convicted pedophile and rapist (who German investigators say kidnapped Madeleine, then 3, from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007) is currently on trial in Germany for a series of unrelated sex crimes.
In his current trial, Brueckner is accused of five crimes committed in the Algarve between 2000 and 2017, including three rapes and two cases of sexual exposure to children.
The Braunschweig regional court, where his case is being heard, was told that Brueckner confessed to two rapes while incarcerated in 2019, boasting about “raping an old woman.” Mirror information.
Prosecutor Vanessa Beyse said Brueckner told fellow inmate Laurentio C. that “tying up and beating” the elderly woman “excited him a lot.”
Brueckner added that he was careful “not to leave any trace,” according to the German tabloid. Image information.
Defendant Christian Brueckner arrives for a session of his trial at the court in Braunschweig, northern Germany, on September 5, 2024
Convicted paedophile and rapist Brueckner, 47 – who German investigators say abducted Madeleine (pictured), then aged three, from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 – is currently on trial in Germany for a series of unrelated sex offences.
Hazel Behan, 40, who declined to give her name, told the court she was raped in her Praia da Rocha apartment in 2004.
The crimes for which Brueckner is on trial include the alleged rape of Irish tourism representative Hazel Behan, now 40, at his Praia da Rocha apartment in 2004.
He has also been charged with the alleged rape of a teenager at his home in the same city and raping an elderly woman at his holiday apartment.
Brueckner is also accused of exposing himself to a German girl on a beach in Salema in April 2007 and to an 11-year-old girl in 2017.
Brueckner remains in prison for raping American pensioner Diana Menkes, 72, in the Algarve, but his sentence ends early next year.
The prosecutor said Brueckner’s descriptions of the attacks he allegedly spoke of while in prison in 2019 resemble what happened to Menkes and Behan.
Brueckner also reportedly told Laurentiu C. — whom prosecutors have asked to speak at the trial as a new witness — that he stole money from a rape victim’s purse in Portugal.
Speaking in court earlier this year, Behan allegedly recounted how her rapist took money from her purse.
Behan, who preferred not to be identified, I had already said this before in the Braunschweig court. who had been raped in June 2004 by a masked man who then whipped her and filmed her in his apartment in Praia da Rocha.
The former Irish tour guide, who was reduced to tears as Brueckner’s defence team conducted a brutal cross-examination, revealed she was still bleeding as a result of the horrific sexual attack.
The defence team asked if her rapist had used lubricant when he attacked her, leaving members of the public horrified.
Brueckner’s lawyers also claimed that DNA evidence showed she had sex with her then-boyfriend Jason Coates directly after the brutal rape.
Defendant Christian B (L) is seen with his lawyer Friedrich Fuelscher (C) and Atilla Aykac as he arrives for a session of his trial at the court in Braunschweig, northern Germany, September 5, 2024.
She said: ‘I had sex before the incident because we were a couple and I had sex after because we were a couple and we had a child, but I didn’t have sex immediately after.’
Behan contacted police after recognising a photograph of Brueckner and asking for information and when asked why she was sure it was him, she gave her heartbreaking response.
She said: ‘When you spend time in this situation and there’s nothing else you can see in this human being, it’s the only thing you can remember, they got into my skull and I’ll never forget it.’
Behan, from Mullingar, Ireland, added that his eyes were completely illuminated by the black mask and tight clothing he was wearing as he raped her.
She added: ‘They were so blue… everything was so dark I had one, so they worked as lights, they were so bright, and I just recognise them.’
Brueckner’s trial is set to end in October.
