Germany/Portugal - Christian Brueckner, 27 @ time of 1st crime (2004), charged with sexual assault crimes, Praia de Rocha, Portugal. #5

[Tekno]

CB's material from that time is of poor quality and his pockmarked face is barely visible, his friend MT recognized CB from the witness statement. So according to you, JB was hanging around the apartment? Didn't this JB appeal to boys?

I didn’t suggest Jos Brech was ‘hanging around the apartment’. Just pointed out the similarity to an e-fit.

 

[Mex]

Paedos and rapists are traditionally disliked...hence the solitary. If he is released will ever be free...will he need a new identity..

Perhaps he has tried that already
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CB, a convicted paedophile and rapist, had his jaw reset and four 'rabbit' teeth straightened during a procedure at a private dental clinic in his native Germany, according to a television investigation.

The TV probe found he flew from Portugal, where Maddie vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, back to Germany for the procedure - thought to have cost around £7,500.

German police also suspect CB, of a string of sex attacks in Portugal - among them an attack on a 10-year-old German girl on a beach just a month before, The Sun reports.

The victim in that attack, in April 2007, also told police that the attacker had 'prominent, rabbit-like teeth'.

The girl, who MailOnline knows the identity of but can't reveal, is now living in Germany and has a successful career but at the time of the attack was on holiday with her mother and brother.

Madeleine McCann suspect 'had face changing op after she went missing'

Brueckner, a convicted paedophile and rapist, had his jaw reset and four 'rabbit' teeth straightened during a procedure at a private dental clinic in his native Germany, according to a TV investigation.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[onemoremiletogo]

Paedos and rapists are traditionally disliked...hence the solitary. If he is released will ever be free...will he need a new identity..

He might not last long out here if he doesn't do that or if he doesn't have some kind of "protection". But he and they know that well.
Two extremes: he realizes and refuses release (super unlikely) or he is released but deleted soon...

 

[Davieson]

He might not last long out here if he doesn't do that or if he doesn't have some kind of "protection". But he and they know that well.
Two extremes: he realizes and refuses release (super unlikely) or he is released but deleted soon...

That would certainly wrap things up quite conveniently.
MM case closed to the complete satisfaction of most people.

 

[onemoremiletogo]

The 1,446 euros is to pay for some misbehaviour in prison; one speculates where he will get the money to pay for that.

It doesn't seem difficult. I’m not sure but maybe the dedicated defense team may help, informally. Or someone charitable whom CB would then thank as he may have done in silence to the judges. CB can then pay back when released (if "protected").

 

[Anxala]

Paedos and rapists are traditionally disliked...hence the solitary. If he is released will ever be free...will he need a new identity..

Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of sex offenders are released from jail every day and just disappear into the ether. CB is no different and not exceptional. He's been acquitted of the charges against him whether we like it or not and the only reason he's still being regarded as 'exceptional' is because of the shadow of MM still hanging over him despite no charge and the increasingly likely unlikelihood of a charge ever being brought against him on that particular score.

This is not me defending CB, this is me seeing him as no dfferent to any other sex offender who's released from jail after serving their time. Anyone who has a problem with that should direct their concerns to the prosecution's failure to step up and finally put its money where its very loud mouth has been for the past four and counting years.

 

[onemoremiletogo]

That would certainly wrap things up quite conveniently.
MM case closed to the complete satisfaction of most people.

(Try) to wrap things up conveniently...that was 17 years ago in Portugal.

 

[onemoremiletogo]

Serving their times...put all into the same bag. IMO the question is the too short jail terms to paedophiles and their offences. Too short. But that is a separate discussion.

 

[misty48]

Thousands if not hundreds of thousands of sex offenders are released from jail every day and just disappear into the ether. CB is no different and not exceptional. He's been acquitted of the charges against him whether we like it or not and the only reason he's still being regarded as 'exceptional' is because of the shadow of MM still hanging over him despite no charge and the increasingly likely unlikelihood of a charge ever being brought against him on that particular score.

This is not me defending CB, this is me seeing him as no dfferent to any other sex offender who's released from jail after serving their time. Anyone who has a problem with that should direct their concerns to the prosecution's failure to step up and finally put its money where its very loud mouth has been for the past four and counting years.

All imo.
CB is very different and exceptional. How many offenders who spend much of their life living off-grid are able to secure the services of "Lawyers for the Mafia" in relation to routine sex offences? Those same lawyers have gone above and beyond to ensure their client was acquitted of all charges - one could almost say they are a little too keen for him to be freed.
Thanks to the internet, there probably isn't a corner of the world where nobody has seen CB's face in the media and read all about the accusations against him. He'll never be a free man again, wherever he roams.

 

[Anxala]

That would certainly wrap things up quite conveniently.
MM case closed to the complete satisfaction of most people.

Thankfully, there are enough of us on this thread and elsewhere that will never accommodate any convenient 'wrap up' that doesn't involve a charge and a trial and finally laid bare conclusive evidence.

 

[Davieson]

Thankfully, there are enough of us on this thread and elsewhere that will never accommodate any convenient 'wrap up' that doesn't involve a charge and a trial and finally laid bare conclusive evidence.

Ah, but if your chief suspect is dead, there cannot be any trial, just endless opportunities to construct a narrative that proves conclusively that CB was the one - even if he wasn't.

 

[onemoremiletogo]

Ah, but if your chief suspect is dead, there cannot be any trial, just endless opportunities to construct a narrative that proves conclusively that CB was the one - even if he wasn't.

You project that but that didn't happen. In 2007, in Portugal, yes, others have tried that bizarrely with others.
If CB is eliminated soon after his release, it may even give more confidence to some to finally come forward.

 

[Mex]

Ah, but if your chief suspect is dead, there cannot be any trial, just endless opportunities to construct a narrative that proves conclusively that CB was the one - even if he wasn't.

If that had been feasible it would have already been done. The Portuguese re-opened their investigation into MM's disappearance in 2013.

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Portugal’s Attorney-General gave the go-ahead for the investigation into the girl’s disappearance to be reopened last week at the request of local police – more than five years after the original inquiry was shelved.

Correio da Manha claimed: ‘Police suspicions about the former Ocean Club employee arose during the review of the case carried out by a PJ team from Porto.

‘This was the strongest new lead presented to state prosecutors which led to the investigation being reopened.

‘The man, who died aged 40 in a tractor accident in 2009, was not on the list of employees handed over to police during the initial investigation by the Ocean Club because at the time of MM’s disappearance he was not working there.’

Main Madeleine suspect 'was heroin addict', reports claim

Euclides Monteiro, an immigrant from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa, may have kidnapped Madeleine in revenge for being sacked from the resort, police believe.

www.dailymail.co.uk

They didn't take the opportunity to construct a narrative, instead they kept on investigating and eventually named CB as their prime suspect.

 

[Trivento]

Appeal against decision to clear Christian Brueckner of sex charges

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann, 47, case was cleared last week of three rapes and two indecent exposures on children.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Mex]

Appeal against decision to clear Christian Brueckner of sex charges

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann, 47, case was cleared last week of three rapes and two indecent exposures on children.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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But CB's legal team raised concerns that cases against him were based on testimony rather than forensic evidence.

His main lawyer, FF, suggested the German was only on trial because of his links to the MM case, during his closing remarks.

C B was jailed for seven years in 2019 after being convicted of raping a 72-year-old American woman in the Algarve in 2005.

Appeal against decision to clear Christian Brueckner of sex charges

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann, 47, case was cleared last week of three rapes and two indecent exposures on children.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Why did FF go for one case (which convinced the presiding judge)and not another, which was far more relevant to the original charges the trial was based on (which the judge decided was based on evidence given by a liar, according to her) and were categorically dismissed out of hand on all counts.

DM’s aggravated rape had everything required; it had testimony and it had forensic evidence; one wonders where the trial judge who was also called as a witness, is ranked in the judge UE veracity stakes.

When it became obvious to the public prosecutors that the judge was not impartial was the time for either appropriate action to be taken or for the judge to examine her conscience.
Her sweeping opinion of all the witnesses beggars belief.
My opinion

 

[Davieson]

So, confirmation that an appeal against acquittal has been submitted but there may not be a result until early next year.
The Germans sure do like to drag these legal matters out.

 

[RichardKimble]

So, confirmation that an appeal against acquittal has been submitted but there may not be a result until early next year.
The Germans sure do like to drag these legal matters out.

Yep basically on technicalities and no new witnesses can be called if successful.

 

[Davieson]

So if the appeal fails on technicalities, we can expect an early result

 

[Davieson]

removed as post duplicated

 

[RichardKimble]

So if the appeal fails on technicalities, we can expect an early result

February the Mail says at the latest.

Any new proceedings will only go ahead if judges rule a mistake in the application of the law was made – no fresh witnesses will be called – but Brueckner's defence lawyers have already said they are confident it will not succeed.

Appeal against decision to clear Christian Brueckner of sex charges

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann, 47, case was cleared last week of three rapes and two indecent exposures on children.

www.dailymail.co.uk