Christian Brueckner, the primary suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance, allegedly confessed to kidnapping a child from her holiday home in Portugal, according to his former prisonmate.
The suspected kidnapper, already convicted for other sexual offenses, has been tied to the disappearance of the three-year-old British girl who vanished on a family holiday in May 2007 in one of the world's biggest unsolved crimes.
In court today, ex-cellmate Laurentiu Codin claimed Brueckner told him about abducting a youngster in Portugal.
"He told me that in Portugal, he had stolen there," Codin said. "He was in a region where there are hotels and rich people live. He said there was somewhere with an open window, he told me this. He was looking for money."
Codin further testified that Brueckner admitted: "He said he didn't find any money but found a kid and took the child. He said that two hours later, there were police and dogs all over the place, so he then went away, out of the area.
"I am just saying what he told me. He told me that a person was with him, who he had had an argument with, allegedly it was his woman. He said he took the child in Portugal in his car, and in the time when the police and dogs were at the house, he drove away and he was gone," reports the Mirror.