Madeleine McCann suspect claims he was 150 yards from resort when she disappeared

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Madeleine McCann suspect claims he was 150 yards from resort when she disappeared.

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The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has claimed he was a mere 150 yards from where the three-year-old was staying when she disappeared.The convicted rapist and paedophile said he had been dealing cannabis near the resort in Praia da Luz on May 3 2007 in an extraordinary admission."I was on the beach, not far from Maddie's hotel, selling drugs," Brueckner told the Daily Mail.

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I'd been in Spain and smuggled the weed into Portugal."Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann had left their children in their room while they ate dinner with friends roughly 100 yards away when their child disappeared.On the night of her disappearance, Brueckner revealed Portuguese police pulled him over three times in Praia da Luz as they hunted for the missing child.Officers never searched his vehicle on any of the three occasions."I was even stopped by police three times on the street [in Praia da Luz] while they were looking for Maddie," he said."Luckily, they didn't find the drugs.

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