https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8396679/Owner-villa-Madeleine-McCann-murder-suspect-lived-urges-police-search-grounds.htmlThe owner of a remote villa where the Madeleine McCann murder suspect lived after she disappeared has urged police to search her extensive grounds.
Lia Silva said she would fully cooperate with British and Portuguese police if they suspected the toddler's body could be buried somewhere on her land.
Christian Brueckner stayed at the house in 2007 when it was used as a shelter for troubled children and rented by a German woman called Nicole and partner Roman.
The tall, blue eyed German with piercing blue eyes was seen many times in the area and at the property in the weeks after the three-year-old disappeared.
Its current owner confirmed that she saw Brueckner at the villa on a number of occasions.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline Silva urged police to search her 5,000 sq m property if they believed the missing child could be buried in the grounds.
She said: 'I just want the parents to get some resolution. If the police want to dig up my grounds they are welcome.
'I am fully expecting them to come here now that they know Brueckner was here. Personally I don't think she can be here.
'The soil is very hard and you'd need a digger or something like that. But if the police want to they can. I will do all I can to help I feel feel so sorry for them and they must be in hell not knowing.'
McCann suspect Christian Brueckner carried a handgun when he was living in the village of Foral, according the residents.
They described the German as 'intimidating' and led to many of the locals avoiding dining at the only restaurant in the village where he would often strut around.
The paedophile worked as a part time waiter at the O Foral restaurant after moving to the village and living in his camper van.
Lia Silva said:' I have been told that when he was here he has a gun that he would always be in a holster around his waist.
'Lots of people were very put off by that and found it very intimidating,
'People would talk about it as it was unusual. Back in 2007 you did not need a licence to carry a gun.'
Silva said she had never seen Brueckner with the firearm and believes it was for effect to bolster his image.
'He like to intimidate people from what I have been told. All the locals would talk about him with the gun as it was so unusual.'
Silva, who is Portuguese but bizarrely speaks with an Australian accent, said she had never met Brueckner when he stayed at her home.
She discovered the German woman who rented the villa was good friends with Brueckner and he often stayed over.
She said: 'I didn't know his name at the time but he was a very good friend of Nicole. He was an ugly man who always wore a black leather jacket.'He came here to help her. One of the girls that had been sent from Germany to stay with her ran away to stay with some Romanians a few miles away.
'He found her and brought her back but she was pregnant. I know he would often stay over at the villa as he was good friends with Nicole and her boyfriend Roman.
'I was in dispute with Nicole over non payment of rent and so did not go the the property but my friends would tell me he was there.
'He drove a VW camper van. I was staying with my parents while the villa was rented out. Nicole left owing me thousands.'
Silva now shares the property called Villa Bianca with eight rescue dogs who repeatedly run and jump up at wrought iron gates when people walk past.
At the nearby O Foral restaurant staff said they had not seen any police Involved in the McCann inquiry In the area.
The restaurants former owner spoke German and employed Brueckner on a part time basis as a waiter.
He has since moved away from the area but a neighbour said: ' Those who spoke German would stick together.'
Silva's home is off a dirt track and in as secluded position as the homes Brueckner lived in near the Ptaiz da Luz resort.
The single storey property is in a secluded position with its entrance of a dirt track and fencing topped with three layers of barbed wire.
The garden is overgrown with one car missing its front wheels and resting on bricks. It is surrounded by fields with the nearest neighbour more than 200m away.
Brueckner would park his VW in the car park of the O Foral restaurant where he worked part time as a waiter.
The restaurant changed hands six years ago with the current husband and wife owners unaware of Brueckner.
Residents in Foral, about 40 miles from the resort of Praia da Luz where McCann went missing, were shocked to find their tiny village linked to the paedophile.
A resident, who asked not to be named, said: 'It is awful to think he lived here. This all happened before I moved here but everyone who lived in Portugal knows the McCann story.'
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The man Tasmin Sillence saw twice, staring at 5a, was reportedly "ugly" & wearing a black leather jacket.
https://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/T_M_S_AGE_12.htmConcerning the individual, she describes him as being: Caucasian race, light skin, so he wasn't Portuguese, but could be British, according to her criteria. Approximately 180 cm tall, thin complexion, 30/35 years of age. Short hair, like shaved with 1 cm of length and fair, but she isn't sure if it was blonde because the sun was reflecting, and made perception more difficult. She didn't see the eyes because he wore dark glasses of black colour, with a structure of mass, a thick frame. He had a large forehead. Nose of normal size, a bit pointy and sharp. Large ears, close against the head. Mouth with thin lips, she didn't see his teeth. Chin pointing up, which stood out on a face that she describes as sharp. No beard, no moustache, a clean shave. No other special signs, apart from some small pimples on the face as a result of shaving. He looked ugly, even 'disgusting'.
The first time that she saw him he was wearing a sports style jacket of thin black leather, with a zipper and several pockets also with similar zippers, in silver. She saw no label or inscription. The jacket was open, therefore she saw a white t-shirt, with a dark blue label near the waist, which she cannot identify very well.
Trousers, she thinks, of blue jeans, worn out. Sports shoes (trainers) in black and grey, with a wave, maybe 'Nike' in a colour that she can't remember.
The second time, he wore the same jacket, this time zipped up, because the day was colder than the first one, windy. She didn't notice the rest of the clothing. She says that on that day he had a pen with a string attached to one of his pockets.
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TMS said she would recognise the man again so I wonder if she was shown CB's photograph.
Linked to this report, on ITV news there was some mention of fostering German children at this village property.
