MADELINE McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner allegedly ordered his girlfriend in a notice from jail to cowl his tracks by clearing out his flat, a court docket has heard.

Brueckner is claimed to have been afraid of police discovering “stuff”, believed to be rape and torture movies, that could possibly be used towards him following his arrest in 2006.

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The prime suspect, nevertheless, is believed to have been seeing a second girl across the time Maddie vanished, a court docket has additionally heard.

Brueckner’s former lover, Marina Flache, claimed they cut up by March 2007, but judges in Germany heard the pair have been pictured in May that yr – the identical month Maddie disappeared.

It means Brueckner was romantically linked with two girls across the time of the McCann abduction – together with one accused of offering him with younger women.

The court docket heard Bruckner wrote Ms Flache a notice from jail in 2006 – after they have been an merchandise – asking for assist protecting his tracks from “stupid cops”.

Brueckner is claimed to have written: “Get rid of all traces from this flat asap, it won’t take too long.

“I am still afraid that the police can find more about it, and the more they accuse me of, the longer I will sit here.”

The notice continued: “I can only laugh about the stupid police, but if the stuff is not removed from my house asap then they will be laughing about me.”

Braunschweig Regional Court heard Ms Flacher, now 64, approached the German FBI herself and handed them the notice.

And all through the trial she has been named by different witnesses as the previous lover who cleared his home.

But she surprised a court docket in Germany on Friday by showing to contradict her personal assertion.

Shown the notice she gave to police in court docket, the journey agent stated: “I have never seen this before.”

Instead she bizarrely defended Brueckner as a “normal painter”.

She stated she was solely ever requested to take portray gear and pencils to jail for the paedophile so he may practise his artwork.

The witness added: “In prison he told me to get him painting stuff, pencils and so he could paint.”

She instructed the court docket she suspected his burglaries however added he was well mannered and “he worked in restaurants, and he painted.”

The court docket heard within the months earlier than Maddie vanished how Brueckner had instructed her he had a lady staying with him – that he was attempting to develop into a guardian of – to entry authorities money.

The trial has heard Brueckner made rape and torture movies of victims as younger as 13 and had a stash of movies hidden.

Judges have additionally been instructed there was a “video mafia” working in Portugal on the time Maddie was snatched.

Ms Flache instructed the court docket she and Brueckner had cut up by March 2007.

But requested a couple of photograph of them collectively on a seashore in May 2007, she bizarrely replied: “Maybe the photo just has this date on it.”

Madeleine, three, disappeared from an condo in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coast whereas on vacation with dad and mom Kate and Gerry, now each 55, of Rothley, Leicestershire.

German investigators consider Brueckner kidnapped and murdered her – though no costs have been filed towards him.

Earlier this week, it was revealed {that a} court docket heard how Brueckner wooed an ex by bragging to her how he broke into Portugal flats carrying tights and goggles.

Brueckner claimed the weird masks meant he may sneak into properties in Portugal’s Algarve resort across the time Maddie vanished.

Brueckner is on trial for a string of rapes and indecent publicity costs, uncovered in the course of the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance. He denies the claims.

The trial continues.

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