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26th September 2024
10:09am BST
17 years have passed since Madeleine McCann disappeared but there has been a development in the case this week.
According to The Mirror, a former cellmate of Christian Brueckner told a court he admitted to kidnapping a child.
Laurentiu Codin confirmed to a court that Brueckner confessed to taking a child in Portugal.
The Mirror reports: "He told me that in Portugal, he had stolen there. He was in a region where there are hotels and rich people live."
Brueckner said: "there was somewhere with an open window".
"He said he didn’t find any money but found a kid and took the child. He said that two hours later, there were police and dogs all over the place, so he then went away, out of the area."
Brueckner's former cellmate continued: "I am just saying what he told me. He told me that a person was with him, who he had had an argument with, allegedly it was his woman.
Codin added: "He said he took the child in Portugal in his car, and in the time when the police and dogs were at the house, he drove away and he was gone."
Codin also claimed that Brueckner asked him if the DNA from a child could be taken from bones under the ground.
Madeleine McCann has been missing since May 3rd, 2007.
She vanished from their apartment while on a family holiday in Praia da Luz, on the southern coast of Portugal.
Prosecutors spent three years investigating Brueckner before naming him as a suspect in 2020.
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