The main suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann, has been cleared of a series of sexual offences in an unrelated trial.Christian Brückner, 47, who is already serving a seven-year jail term in Germany for rape, was acquitted of carrying out three rapes and two instances of sexual abuse in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.Brückner has not been charged in the case of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 and has never been found. Brückner’s defence team had argued he should be cleared because of a lack of evidence, although prosecutors had called for the court in Braunschweig in northern Germany to impose an additional 15-year jail term.
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