Germany<\/a>.’<\/p>\nThe source added: ‘He was asking them to speak in his defence, about what a good guy he is. He said the German police and prosecutors have it in for him, that they are saying he is a monster.<\/p>\n
‘It’s outrageous for Chris to ask for help because now we all know about his past. Back when we were hanging with him in the early 2000s it was all a secret. We didn’t know he was a paedophile. But now he doesn’t stand a chance of anybody speaking up for him in court.’<\/p>\n
Brueckner is currently languishing in a German prison for the rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Portugal just 18 months before Madeleine was abducted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His trial heard he planned the sex attack having broken into the victim’s house with a rope to tie her up. She was blindfolded and gagged before being raped and robbed.<\/p>\n
Last year, he was named as the key suspect in the disappearance and murder of Madeleine, who vanished\u00a0from her family’s holiday apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007 – just a few days before her fourth birthday. But he has still not been charged regarding her abduction and he denies his involvement.<\/p>\n
In June, Brueckner attacked the police investigation against him as groundless in a handwritten letter, seen by the MailOnline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the letter he attacked informant Mr Busching. The two men had been pals in Portugal in the early 2000s but as Brueckner explained in his latest missive he says they fell out after a drugs deal went wrong the year Madeleine went missing and never spoke again.<\/p>\n
Madeleine vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coast in May 2007 – where Brueckner was living at the time – and has never been seen since.<\/p>\n
In May, parents Kate and Gerry McCann gathered with friends and family in Rothley, Leicestershire, to poignantly marked the 16th anniversary of her disappearance.<\/p>\n
They hold onto a glimmer of hope that Madeleine could still be alive.<\/p>\n
She would now be aged 20.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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