Precisely.
- in 2005 a bestial rape was perpetrated on the resident of a seaside villa in Praia da Luz in close proximity to the apartment from which Madeleine McCann vanished
- the Portuguese police dropped the case without apparently carrying out any sort of investigation into the chance that the MO had been replicated elsewhere.
If they had they would likely have found in police files that the MO had been used in 2004 and dropped by the police - As a result the opportunity was lost to make comparison of trace evidence from both cases in the hope of building a case against the anonymous pervert and intruder.
The evidence from the 2004 assault was destroyed and the evidence from from the 2005 rape only preserved because it seems to have been forgotten - Sometime many years down the line, criminal friends of Brueckner assisted his then girlfriend among others to clear the proceeds of his criminal past from his lair in Luz while he was in prison.
- Among the evidence removed were video tapes of all sorts of depraved pornographic memorabilia
- Eventually these were disposed of but not before the content of one was noted which showed the beating and rape of an older woman.
This was noted possibly because the perpetrator was recognised as being Christian Brueckner. - But there was nothing to indicate who the aggravated rape survivor was.
Or if such an event had even occurred as described. The BKA had only the word of two criminal accomplices of Brueckner to go on.
So the first issue was to check the information - With the co-operation of the PJ the BKA were able to access police files; wherein they found reports of the torture and rape as described by the two witnesses.
- The survivor was able to testify to the terrible events she had suffered.
- Brueckner's DNA was recovered from the bedclothes of the scene of the rape as described by the survivor both at the time of the outrage, in her testimony to the BKA and through them to the German court.
- So in effect the witness statements from both criminal friends of Brueckner were totally proved as they had described.
the event had happened
it was corroborated in police files
it was corroborated by the survivor
it was proven in court
DNA identified Brueckner as the perpetrator
The catalyst for it all was the naming of Brueckner as the erstwhile anonymous pervert with a penchat for degrading women and children for his gratification.
So despite repeated appeals the German and the European courts have left him exactly where he should be behind bars.
It is extraordinary that such a creature is the darling of the internet for some.
A reminder for those who will argue black is white.
- Information was passed to police investigators alleging the witness had watched the rape of an unidentified woman on a video no longer in the witness's possession.
- Based only on that there was no way for the police to identify the woman so they instituted a search for reported rapes which matched the modus operandi as it had been reported to them.
- Fortunately that information was found in Portuguese police files.
- Fortunately the related forensic evidence had been kept and not destroyed.
There it is in a nutshell with all that is missing from the mix being the sadist rapist. Now that could have been problematic because the creature had dressed himself up for the occasion so even had the woman been able to see him she would have been unable to provide a description.
That problem was resolved when the latest hero removed his mask on camera to reveal the face of Christian Brueckner.
The rape survivor was identified but Brueckner probably never would have been without the testimony of his friends backed up by police files, Diane's testimony and forensics.
