RichardKimble
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
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It is the Sun which is not reliable, no others have reported it.Interesting.
It is the Sun which is not reliable, no others have reported it.Interesting.
This article seems to be suggesting CB is Cooperman - that’s a stretch. Let’s see what happens with the rest of it.According to the Sun HeB to give evidence this month.No actual quotes you'll notice only a source.No exclusive from JC and the Olive so who knows?
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Maddie McCann suspect 'trying to ban pics tying him to rape being seen in court'
MADELEINE McCann suspect Christian Brueckner is using data protection laws to try and stop birthmark pictures that tie him to a horror rape being shown in court. The monster, 47, ‘had the mark remo…www.thesun.co.uk
Agreed. It was already taken as part of a previous proceeding. Even if they weren’t the judge would weigh up the magnitude of the evidence against CB’s human rights. Very unlikely it would be the latter. I have confidence that like us, the judges want all the facts & evidence to be heard. IMO Fulscher may try another technicality. Worst case it’ll delay the evidence being shown but ultimately won’t stop it“This is applicable to your health data files and CB’s defence team have therefore claimed he had never given his consent.
“The problem for him is the body scan was not a private act but made in connection with his previous sexual crimes and ordered by a judge.”
Full-body pictures of CB are understood to have been taken while he was in custody for previous offences – before he decided to get the mark removed.
CB is said to have been left with just a scar between his thigh and hip, which his defence team will claim is a coincidence.
His defence team have already asked a number of witnesses if they recalled the birthmark.
Prosecutors are said to be working on a legal solution, which will allow them to use the pictures as evidence in the current trial.
HB is set to give evidence at the trial in Braunschweig, Germany, in May, in person – although a request has been made for the harrowed victim to give evidence via videolink.
The court has heard CB filmed as he raped and whipped her – leaving her in fear he would behead her, in Praia da Rocha, in June 2004.
During the attack the masked sicko allegedly asked her: “You are afraid of me aren’t you?”
When she lied and said “no” he whipped the helpless holiday rep then chillingly demanded: “Are you afraid of me now?”
CB was convicted of the aggravated rape of DM who testified that he enjoyed terrorising her. HB's assailant displayed the same eagerness to instil terror throughout his viciously sustained attack on her.
Both rape survivors feared for their lives.
The judges are privy to all the evidence and if CB's defence team are trying to have material evidence excluded they will know about it.
Very difficult conundrum when HB's 2004 evidence is already on police file. I doubt the defence will succeed in this particular endeavour. My opinion
Prior to it even being decided to charge CB with the rape of HB the argument was being made regarding whether or not CB had the birthmark on his thigh as described.Agreed. It was already taken as part of a previous proceeding. Even if they weren’t the judge would weigh up the magnitude of the evidence against CB’s human rights. Very unlikely it would be the latter. I have confidence that like us, the judges want all the facts & evidence to be heard. IMO Fulscher may try another technicality. Worst case it’ll delay the evidence being shown but ultimately won’t stop it
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This only shows that the tabloid reporting is ordinary. Bild, with quotes from FF, is pushing the angle that there is no mark. The Sun, with an unattributed report says there was a mark but it was surgically removed.Prior to it even being decided to charge CB with the rape of HB the argument was being made regarding whether or not CB had the birthmark on his thigh as described.
The cite below is dated 2022. Is the argument really still taking place in 2024?
Even if CB's "rights" must be protected likewise so must HB's. She introduced the evidence re. the alleged blemish and is entitled to have her evidence investigated. If that cannot be done photographically the prosecution would be entitled surely, to call evidence relating to CB's journey to Germany etc;
Anyway the intriguing issue is why he thought it pertinent to alter his appearance on two occasions following positive identification features being formally entered into official police files. As well as the omission which allowed him to drop off the police radar when other petty criminals were named in the files.
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It has been six months since the initial request by the Met for access to "three prime suspects" for questioning, although it is believed that as many as eight could be on the interview list.
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Madeleine McCann suspects to be questioned soon, Portuguese police say
Portuguese confirm 'several people' identified for questioning by Scotland Yard officerswww.theguardian.com
Lawyer requests that the verdict be reopened
From: KAI FELDHAUS AND MIRKO VOLTMER
01.09.2022
According to BILD information, the lawyer of MM suspect CB (45) has applied to the Braunschweig Regional Court to reopen an old rape case against his client.
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During the investigation, the public prosecutor's office received information about other crimes that CB could have committed, including the rape of the Irish woman HB (then 20) in Portugal in 2004.
The MM case is still being investigated, and in the case of HB, the public prosecutor's office is currently examining whether charges will be filed.
Now the Kiel star lawyer FF(38) surprises with this move: He applied for the reopening of the first rape trial! The reason: In the course of the current investigations, new facts have emerged that exonerate CB.
The lawyer apparently refers to the statements of the victim HB. and the results of an "operational case analysis" of the BKA, which was prepared as part of the investigation into the rape of HB. According to BILD information, the analysis is said to have shown that the same perpetrator could have committed both rapes.
Problematic for the prosecution: HB. stated to the police that the perpetrator had a conspicuous scar on his thigh. An identification examination of Brückner revealed: The MM suspect should not have such a scar.
Despite the new facts, the defence attorney has little hope that the court will reopen the case. "Only a vanishingly small proportion of readmission requests are successful," Fülscher told BILD.
One is faced with "a superiority of the criminal justice system, which tries to fend off any attack on the old verdict tooth and nail."
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Maddie-Verdächtiger Christian Brückner will kein Vergewaltiger sein. Prozess beantragt
Christian Brückner soll Maddie McCann 2007 ermordet haben. Nun will seine Verteidigung ein altes Urteil wegen Vergewaltigung neu aufrollen lassen.www.bild.de
Given that a judge was the person who ordered the body scan whilst CB was in custody for previous sexual offences IMO those offences related to the images found at his apartment 2014, which included the filmed abuse of Anja K's daughter in the park. It's unlikely that CB's face was on the video showing his own actions but his thigh and the mark on it may well have been visible, hence the need for a body scan.This only shows that the tabloid reporting is ordinary. Bild, with quotes from FF, is pushing the angle that there is no mark. The Sun, with an unattributed report says there was a mark but it was surgically removed.
I am honestly very doubtful that CB would have spent cash on birthmark removal surgery before there was any likelihood it would incriminate him - he has been in prison since 2018, well before he knew HaB’s statement.
Believe what you will but I am very sceptical of The Sun’s report.
I think it’s almost certainly in the original 2004 statement. As there is no forensic evidence, such a distinguishing mark is key in identifying the offender. FF knows this which is why he was so keen to say that CB had no such mark.HaB mentioned the birthmark publicly in 2015 way before CB name was released. I’d like to think it is also in her interview with the PJ in 2004 ? But considering they shelved it early on it’s not guaranteed.
The photos and videos in this article are the ones that convicted him of the abuse against AK’s daughter.Given that a judge was the person who ordered the body scan whilst CB was in custody for previous sexual offences IMO those offences related to the images found at his apartment 2014, which included the filmed abuse of Anja K's daughter in the park. It's unlikely that CB's face was on the video showing his own actions but his thigh and the mark on it may well have been visible, hence the need for a body scan.
Whilst removal of the mark sometime between 2014 & 2018 could not prevent it being used against him for any previous crimes, this identifiable feature wouldn't pose such a problem in any subsequent crimes of a similar nature.
Madeleine McCann suspect Brueckner told girlfriend he WAS near villa )
It’s a big mark!Pointed out elsewhere, spot the difference.
Sun.The monster, 47, ‘had the mark removed’ from his left thigh to avoid being identified for the knifepoint attack on Irish holiday rep Hazel Behan, who will give evidence against him this week.
Mirror two years ago.
Behan reportedly told police her attacker had a cross-shaped scar on his right thigh.
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Maddie McCann suspect 'will have thighs examined' in bid to escape rape charge
Christian Brueckner - who denies any involvement in Madeleine McCann's disappearance - has agreed to have his thighs examined by police in a bid to escape a rape chargewww.mirror.co.uk
Actually, you may be on to something here.Pointed out elsewhere, spot the difference.
Sun.The monster, 47, ‘had the mark removed’ from his left thigh to avoid being identified for the knifepoint attack on Irish holiday rep Hazel Behan, who will give evidence against him this week.
Mirror two years ago.
Behan reportedly told police her attacker had a cross-shaped scar on his right thigh.
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Maddie McCann suspect 'will have thighs examined' in bid to escape rape charge
Christian Brueckner - who denies any involvement in Madeleine McCann's disappearance - has agreed to have his thighs examined by police in a bid to escape a rape chargewww.mirror.co.uk
As ever, the devil is in the detail.Actually, you may be on to something here.
It may be that HaB’s statement says right thigh. This may be why FF was so confident in saying CB had no such mark. Whether he had a mark which may or may not have been removed from his left thigh doesn’t matter because this is not what the evidence from HaB says.
It is of course possible that HaB made a mistake.
If there is a photograph of CB on the balcony at "Condomínio Clube Praia da Rocha III" where HB was raped it proves his familiarity with the building and perhaps the occupants.No idea what is true but maybe tomorrow after the trial we know more about the scar. Also the new Finnish witnesses I find very interesting.