German court to hear sex offences case against Madeleine McCann suspect

A German prisoner who is a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be tried for separate alleged sex offences (PA)

A German higher regional court ruled on Tuesday that a state court can hear a sex offences case against a man who also is a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, overruling the state court’s earlier decision that it did not have jurisdiction.

The higher regional court in the northern city of Braunschweig said that the state court had wrongly declared itself without jurisdiction when it said in April that it was not responsible for hearing the case, arguing at the time that the region where it is located is not the last place where Christian Brueckner lived in Germany, news agency dpa reported.