From the Metro this evening:
Madeleine McCann suspect ‘will never talk to police’, says his lawyer
In an interview with
The Sydney Morning Herald, Brueckner’s lawyer, Friedrich Fulscher, accused police of creating a smokescreen with this week’s search. He denied his client had ‘anything to hide’ but would not cooperate with the investigation.
Mr Fulscher said: ‘Before our client starts to co-operate with the prosecutor’s office, you could order holy water as a long drink in hell. That is not unusual. It is very normal not to talk to the police when you are suspected of committing a crime.
The prosecutor’s office has to prove that a suspect has committed a crime, and not the suspect prove that he hasn’t.’
Mr Fulscher claimed the allotment search was designed to build ‘bad media’ against Brueckner ahead of a court decision that could see the convicted rapist freed from prison after serving his sentence for drug trafficking.
The European Court of Justice will decide whether an arrest warrant relating to the rape of a 72-year-old woman in 2007 was legal.
‘I am very surprised they have started a search there now and not much earlier,’ Mr Fulscher told The Sydney Morning Herald. ‘I was very surprised because the police had known for over two years that the garden was used by my client’.
Mr Fulscher insisted his client was ‘not a monster’ – despite a rap sheet that goes back nearly 25 years, with convictions for child sex offences, rape and drug trafficking.
He added that he doesn’t ‘recognise the person the media describes’, adding that he perceives him to be a ‘very calm and friendly person’.
Mr Fulscher added that he does not know if there is a chance his client could be charged but is sure that if he is, ‘he will be found not guilty by the court.’