Main suspect in Madeleine McCann case due to be released from German prison

Authorities say they no longer have legal justification to hold Christian Brückner in jail after serving rape sentence

Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. File Picture: PA

The main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is expected to be freed on Wednesday as German authorities admit they no longer have legal justification to hold him in jail.

Christian Brückner, 49, is due to be released from prison in Sehnde, northern Germany, after serving a sentence for the rape of an American woman, then 72 years old, in Portugal in 2005.