McCann suspect lawyers seek acquittal in trial over unrelated sexual offences

The defendant is accused of three cases of aggravated rape and two cases of sexual abuse (dpa via AP, Pool)

Lawyers for a man who is under investigation over the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann have called for him to be acquitted in his trial on charges of unrelated sexual offences.

Prosecutors last week urged the Braunschweig state court to convict the 47-year-old German national, who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner, of two counts of rape and two of sexual abuse.