A convicted paedophile and rapist named as a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann allegedly told his former lover he ‘knows what happened to little Maddie’.
Christian Brueckner, 44, was officially designated as a suspect, or ‘arguido’ by Portuguese authorities on Friday, and was for the first time formally questioned about events on May 3, 2007, when the three-year-old British girl vanished from her bedroom at a resort on the Algarve as her parents ate tapas with friends at a nearby restaurant.
Brueckner, who is already behind bars in his native Germany for an array of grisly crimes, exercised his right to remain silent throughout the questioning, according to sources with knowledge of the prison interview.
But one of Brueckner’s former lovers, 34-year-old Anastasia Meckesy, today declared the sex offender had confessed to her in 2013 that he knew what happened to Maddie almost 15 years ago.
‘He said that he ”knows what happened to little Maddie from England”,’ Meckesy told The Sun on Sunday.
She added: ‘Christian is a human pig. That’s how you should see him today. Today I know what he’s accused of.’
Meanwhile, Maddie’s parents Gerry and Kate McCann said they welcomed the news that a German man has been declared ‘an arguido in relation to the disappearance of our beloved daughter, Madeleine.
‘This reflects progress in the investigation, being conducted by the Portuguese, German and British authorities. We are kept informed of developments by the Metropolitan Police,’ they added.
‘Even though the possibility may be slim, we have not given up hope that Madeleine is still alive and we will be reunited with her.’
Meckesy said she shared a sexual relationship with Brueckner which she initially enjoyed but later became controlling and violent.
She alleged Brueckner forced her to go to swingers clubs and dress up like a schoolgirl, and became aggressive when she complained.
Meckesy went on to say she got the impression Brueckner ‘hated women’, and alleged the convicted paedophile told her that Maddie ‘was ”probably handed over” to someone after being taken and, if she were still alive today, they would have found her by now’.
On May 3, 2007, Maddie was staying with her family at the Ocean Club resort in the Portuguese Algarve’s Praia da Luz, a few miles from a ramshackle property the German sex offender was renting at the time.
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