This appears to be out of context. If we had the times article perhaps it would make more sense
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"The prime suspect for the abduction of Madeleine McCann is due to be charged with the rape of an Irish tour representative in 2004.
Christian Brückner is suspected of attacking Hazel Behan, then 20, in her apartment in Praia da Rocha on the Algarve, a 30-minute drive from where Madeleine was abducted.
German federal police, who are leading the inquiry into Brückner, hope to charge him with raping Behan “in the next three months”.
Behan, 37, who has waived her right to anonymity, contacted British police after reading in the news about a similar sex attack by Brückner.
His history emerged during an appeal for information by German detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine. German prosecutors claimed last year to have evidence that Brückner abducted and murdered three-year-old Madeleine, and are building a case towards charging him. She would have been 18 this month.
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Brückner is serving a seven-year term in a prison in Hanover for raping a 72-year-old American in Praia da Luz in 2005.
Hans Christian Wolters, the German prosecutor leading the inquiry, said: “The case against the suspect Christian B for the rape of Hazel Behan is in a good way, and it may be that we can charge him in the next three months. I am very hopeful for a charge on this case.
“We are building a picture of Christian B and the methods he uses to commit his crimes. There are parallels with the case of the American tourist who was raped, the attack on Hazel Behan, and the abduction and murder of Madeleine McCann. In each case the person has come into the person’s apartment or property by breaking and entering, often not through the door.”
Asked whether that meant police believed Madeleine’s abductor entered the McCanns’ hotel apartment using the window, rather than the unlocked patio doors, Wolters said: “I can’t comment.” He added that he hoped to resolve the Madeleine case “by this year”.
Wolters said that if Brückner were convicted of raping Behan it could help take the Madeleine case over the threshold to bring him to trial."
The German legal system means that following any charge, Wolters will have to convince a judge that a full trial should be held, which would take place before five judges, probably in the district court in Braunschweig, a city in Lower Saxony known as Brunswick in English, where Brückner spent much of his life while in Germany.
He fled to Portugal as an 18-year-old to escape a two-year youth custody sentence for child sex offences, later returning.
“Maybe the judge will think that somebody who has raped more than one woman in the same place where Madeleine was taken would also be more likely to take and kill a young girl,” Wolters added. “It says something about his character.”
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