Rob Hyde

1 week ago | mirror.co.uk | Rob Hyde |Martin Fricker

A former police officer has paved the way for the release of Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner by secretly paying his court fines. German authorities hoped outstanding levies for an offence in jail would keep the 48-year-old rapist and paedophile behind bars until January. But they were dealt a blow when a mystery woman paid the £1,300 fines needed for him to be freed on the earliest possible date in September.

1 week ago | msn.com | Rob Hyde |Martin Fricker |Paige Ingram

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1 week ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Martin Fricker |Rob Hyde |Ryan Thom

The 48-year-old convicted rapist and paedophile has reportedly already chosen a new home when he is freed from prison in September, having previously boasted that he plans to go into hiding. Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner has revealed plans to move to Germany's 'billionaire playground island' when he is released from jail.

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Rob Hyde |Natalia Penza

The Prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has given his first jail-based interview in which he revealed he suffered a broken rib after being attacked by a fellow inmate. Convicted paedophile Christian Brueckner, 48, is the man German investigators believe abducted Madeleine from her family's rented holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Rob Hyde

The last-known Nazi concentration camp guard due to face trial in Germany has died — just before he could be held to account for his alleged role in one of the Third Reich's most horrific killing machines. Gregor Formanek, a former SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, was accused of aiding and abetting the murder of 3,322 people, including prisoners of war, Jews, and political detainees. But on April 2, 2025, aged 100, he died — ending the case before it ever reached court.