Madeleine McCann suspect is linked to unsolved abduction of five-year-old German girl in woods in 2015 - as chilling online chats reveal he wanted to 'capture something small and use it for days'
- Inga Gehricke, 5, disappeared from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany on May 2, 2015
- She vanished 48 miles away from where Christian Brueckner owned a house
- Police are said to have investigated Brueckner in 2016 over Inga's disappearance
- Case compared to that of Madeleine who vanished in Portugal on May 3, 2007
The new Madeleine McCann prime suspect was today linked to the disappearance of a five-year-old girl in his native Germany eight years later.
Inga Gehricke vanished from Diakoniewerk Wilhelmshof in Saxony-Anhalt during a family outing in a case that detectives have been unable to solve ever since.
Her disappearance on May 2, 2015 was 48 miles away from where new Madeleine suspect Christian Brueckner owned a house in Neuwegersleben at the time.
It comes as documents revealed by Spiegel allegedly show Brueckner fantasised in online chats about the kidnapping and sexual abuse of a child in September 2013.
He is said to have told one acquaintance he wanted to 'capture something small and use it for days', and that it would be safer if 'the evidence is destroyed afterwards'.
Inga Gehricke vanished from Diakoniewerk Wilhelmshof in Saxony-Anhalt during a family outing on May 2, 2015 in an case that detectives have been unable to solve ever since
Christian Brueckner (left), 43, is now the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (right), who vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3, 2007
Inga has often been labelled the German equivalent of Madeleine, who went missing aged three during a family holiday on the Algarve in Portugal on May 3, 2007.
Now, it is believed that police investigated Brueckner, 43, in February 2016 over the disappearance of Inga, according to Saxony-Anhalt newspaper Volksstimme.
Detectives repotedly discovered a device at his home containing child pornography and it has been said he had no alibi for the day in question when Inga went missing.
But it appears no further action was taken against him in relation to Inga, which has been questioned by lawyer Petra Kullmei, who represents the girl's mother.
Inga's disappearance in Diakoniewerk Wilhelmshof on May 2, 2015 happened 48 miles away from where Christian Brueckner owned a house in Neuwegersleben at the time
Justizvollzugsanstalt Kiel in northern Germany where Brueckner is currently being held in jail
Mr Kullmei, who is calling for a new investigation, told Volksstimme: 'The file was closed again only four weeks after starting work. I think that's not very ambitious.'
Brueckner, who has been labelled a 'multiple sexual predator' by prosecutors, is said to have been convicted of a child sex offence in Germany when aged just 17.
Yet the drifter, who reportedly has as many as 17 criminal convictions, was apparently overlooked by Portuguese police during their Madeleine probe.
Brueckner, who is in jail in Kiel, Germany, was also convicted of raping a 72-year-old US widow in her Algarve home 18 months before Madeleine disappeared.
In 2014, Brueckner was said to have been living at a house on this road in Braunschweig, near Hanover, where he told friends he had opened a shop and worked from 7am until midnight
Police say Brueckner may have been living in this campervan at the time Madeleine vanished
But Brueckner only became a suspect for Scotland Yard in 2017 when he is said to have told a friend at a bar he 'knew all about' what had happened to Madeleine.
Madeleine disappeared while her parents, from Rothley in Leicestershire, were having a meal with friends at a tapas bar close to their apartment in Praia da Luz.
Inga, who had blonde hair and blue eyes, had been having a barbecue with her family at an apartment complex in a forest when she disappeared.
She is believed to have wandered off to collect wood to light a campfire but never returned, prompting more than 500 people to search for her.
Brueckner had lived in this remote farmhouse overlooking Praia da Luz from 1999 to 2006
The farmhouse where the new prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance lived was located just two miles from where she went missing from her family's holiday apartment
Police dogs also failed to pick up the scent of Inga who had been wearing a butterfly T-shirt, blue jeans and her hair in two plaits and vanished at about 6.30pm.
Brueckner had lived in a remote farmhouse overlooking Praia da Luz from 1999 to 2006 and may have been living in a campervan at the time Madeleine disappeared.
But not long after Madeleine vanished in 2007, he left Portugal and returned to his homeland - where he was later said to own the property in Neuwegersleben.
In 2014, he was said to have been living in Braunschweig, near Hanover, where he told friends he had opened a local shop and worked from 7am until midnight.
Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann are pictured in London in October 2014
Sources have said that a German national serving time in prison in northern Germany would likely face trial in his homeland rather than be extradited to Britain.
The Metropolitan Police in London has always insisted that if the suspect is a UK national, it will push for them to be charged and prosecuted in Britain.
But in the case of a foreign suspect, it would be extremely difficult to extradite them to the UK for a crime committed overseas.
The Portuguese authorities could seek to pursue the case as the offence occurred there. But sources said the German investigation would be likely to take primacy.
How the unsolved case of missing Inga Gehricke, five, involved a search team of 500 people after she wandered off to collect wood
Inga Gehricke, five, had been having a barbecue with her family on May 2, 2015
The disappearance of five-year-old Inga Gehricke during a trip to a forest area in Saxony-Anhalt prompted a huge search involving 500 people.
She had been having a barbecue with her family at an apartment complex in Diakoniewerk Wilhelmshof on May 2, 2015 when she disappeared.
The girl is believed to have wandered off to collect wood to light a campfire at about 6.30pm but never returned.
Police dogs also failed to pick up the scent of Inga who had been wearing a butterfly T-shirt, blue jeans and her hair in two plaits.
One of the main suspects was former security guard Silvio Schulz, but he denied involvement police were never able to prove any link.
In July 2016, Schulz was handed a life sentence for murdering two children, one of them a four-year-old Bosnian boy snatched from a migrant registration centre the year before.
Police also allegedly investigated Christian Brueckner and found a device at his home with child pornography, but could not prove any link to Inga's case.
In June 2017, officers formally dropped the probe into Inga's disappearance.
Inga had been on the trip with her parents Victoria and Jens-Uwe Gehricke, as well as her three siblings Maxim, 15, Julius, 13, and eight-year-old Freya.
Speaking in April 2017, Mrs Gehricke told Stern magazine that her 'feeling tells me that she is still alive', while her husband said: 'I still have the hope that she will be found. But the hope that she will come back alive goes to zero for me.'
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