A former police chief says there's no 'firm evidence' against the man suspected of abducting Madeleine McCann - despite his reported confession to a friend. In June last year, Christian Brückner was identified as a prime suspect in the case of Madeleine, who disappeared from an apartment in 2007 while her family was on holiday in the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal. He is currently serving a seven-year sentence in Kiel jail in northern Germany for raping a 72-year-old American in 2005 and allegedly confessed during a drinking session that he 'knew all about' what had happened to Maddie. Brückner allegedly shared details about Maddie's abduction with a friend over a drink on the tenth anniversary of her disappearance when her face appeared on a German pub's TV screen in 2017.