So what have we got? A couple of Drug Convictions, a couple of Child Sexual Abuse Convictions and a Rape Conviction. All of which Brueckner was obviously Guilty.
I am trying hard not to allow this to affect my judgement, although it is difficult. Brueckner is a seriously not nice man and everything has to start somewhere.
There is an interesting lack of comments from Sceptics. But then who expected anything else?
Brueckner is very definitely not a nice guy. His criminal profile is almost perfect for a perpetrator of whatever befell Madeleine McCann. But none of that proves his guilt - the evidence will do that or not, if he is brought to trial on the strength of it.
I think he has been adept at covering his tracks but I think he chose the right place to get away with it for so long.
Hindsight is an exact science but my impression is that the Portuguese police were not interested given the fact that Brueckner's recent rape conviction and recent charges laid against him were historic, were investigated perfunctorily before being abandoned.
If the BKA had not been investigating Madeleine's case as a result of information received the Praia da Luz rape would never have been solved. It is sheer luck that it was solved because the remaining evidence had never been forensically tested. That one tiny piece survived, is just sheer chance.
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The 2005 rape case inquiry was abandoned five months after the horrific attack, while neither a red T-shirt stuffed in the victim's mouth nor a nylon rope used to tie her hands together were DNA tested, according to The Sun.
Official documents show Carlos Farinha, then Director of the Judicial Police's Forensic Science Laboratory, wrote in a November 2009 letter: 'We have learned by telephone that the examination is no longer necessary. We are therefore cancelling the tests and returning the material sent to us for analysis.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8477199/Police-failed-DNA-test-evidence-led-capture-Maddies-prime-suspect.html
