Maddie suspect Christian B’s eyes terrify me… he’s imprinted in brain in pain & must never be freed, says rape accuser

RAPE unfortunate Hazel Behan contiguous issues an impassioned entreaty for Maddie McCann main fishy Christian Brueckner ne'er to beryllium released from jail.

Brueckner, 47, was this week acquitted by a German tribunal of raping vacation rep Ms Behan arsenic good arsenic different pistillate and a 14-year-old miss successful Portugal.

Presiding justice Uta Engemann called Hazel a “credible witness” and declared: “We person nary uncertainty that thing unspeakable happened to her.”

But the justice said determination was not capable grounds to convict German nationalist Brueckner, explaining: “There is nary DNA, nary fingerprints, nary objects which were recovered to beryllium that helium was there.”

The convicted paedophile — who is presently successful a German jailhouse for the 2005 rape of a US pensioner — was acquitted of 3 further counts of rape and 2 counts of kid intersexual abuse.

Brave Hazel, 41, who has waived her close to anonymity, told the proceedings she was raped by Brueckner astatine her Algarve flat successful 2004 erstwhile she was moving arsenic a vacation rep.

Hazel, past aged 20, said she was subjected to a prolonged ordeal astatine knifepoint by a masked antheral who broke into her flat — and she identified Brueckner by his “piercing eyes”.

‘Allowing him to beryllium escaped is an injustice’

He was sentenced successful 2019 to 7 years for the rape of the 72-year-old American pistillate successful Praia da Luz.

That is the aforesaid Portuguese seaside edifice wherever Madeleine went missing successful 2007 portion connected a vacation with her parents Kate and Gerry and her babe duplicate siblings.

Prosecutors successful Brueckner’s latest proceedings described him arsenic a “sadistic psychopath” and called for him to beryllium caged for a further 15 years.

But the acquittal this week means helium could beryllium released from prison adjacent year, contempt a psychiatrist standing him “in the apical league of dangerousness”.

Brueckner whitethorn adjacent beryllium connected the streets wrong days arsenic portion of a pre-freedom day-release programme.

Chief authoritative Hans Christian Wolters has pledged to entreaty this week’s verdicts, claiming the judges astatine the tribunal successful Braunschweig, bluish Germany, were biased from the start.

Wolters is present pushing for a retrial astatine the Supreme Court arsenic portion of a bid to support Brueckner locked up.

In an exclusive interrogation past night, rape unfortunate Hazel, from Dublin, pleaded for Brueckner ne'er to beryllium freed.

She told us: “The verdict, it didn’t daze me. I consciousness the justice had made her caput up already.

“But it truly hurt, it angered me. It enactment much fearfulness successful me.

“I’m acrophobic for myself, but I’m besides acrophobic for the public.

“I consciousness Christian Brueckner is simply a precise unsafe man.

“I consciousness the tribunal should person listened to the recommendations of the specialists and different people.

“And I don’t deliberation helium should beryllium fto retired of prison.

“I deliberation helium poses a menace to different women and children. And I deliberation allowing him to beryllium escaped is an injustice to america all. Not conscionable connected me, but connected different radical arsenic well.

“He’s a very, precise unsafe man.”

Brueckner was accused of subjecting Hazel to a convulsive onslaught successful June 2004 aft breaking into her Praia da Rocha apartment.

Hazel told the proceedings however her attacker stood implicit her furniture and woke her by calling her sanction earlier proceeding to rape her repeatedly implicit respective hours.

Brueckner was this week cleared of that, and separately of raping a miss of 14 and an aged British woman.

He was besides cleared of grabbing a kid and performing a enactment enactment connected himself, adjacent Praia da Luz weeks earlier Madeleine was abducted determination aged three.

Traumatised Hazel maintains Brueckner — who has a past of kid enactment offences and different crimes — was the antheral who brutally attacked her.

She told us: “I judge the idiosyncratic who committed the crimes against maine is Christian Brueckner.

“I find it rather violative that idiosyncratic could archer maine what I bash and don’t remember. I retrieve his eyes.

“I cognize that radical mightiness find that precise hard to understand.

“But I cognize what I saw and I cognize what I remember.”

Emotional Hazel, present a mum of three, told however she inactive sees Brueckner’s eyes each nighttime erstwhile she goes to sleep.

Fighting backmost tears, she said: “I cognize what I spot each clip I adjacent my eyes. I spot his eyes. I don’t request a newspaper. I don’t request a photograph to punctual maine of him.

“I spot them for the past 20 years each nighttime erstwhile I spell to sleep. So I don’t request idiosyncratic to archer maine that I’m incorrect connected that.

“I cognize what the information is. I cognize it was him.

“With the top respect to judges and anybody else, I recognize wherefore radical would say, ‘Sure, however tin you recognise his eyes?’

“But tin you ideate if you’re successful that horrendous concern with idiosyncratic and each you’re trying to bash is prime retired things that you tin remember? To retrieve arsenic overmuch arsenic you can, saying to myself this volition assistance find him.

“All I saw of him was his eyes. I volition ne'er hide them.

‘I truly bash judge helium volition re-offend’

“So for a justice oregon anybody other to archer me, ‘She couldn’t recognise,’ . . .  don’t archer maine what I recognise.

“Everything that I’ve done successful my life, each holiday, each performance that I went to, each nationalist event, I would look for him. It’s imprinted.”

Judge Engemann granted Brueckner a afloat acquittal aft the eight-month trial.

She besides ruled the grounds “was not capable for a conviction” successful the different cases.

Cops person warned “the timepiece is ticking” arsenic they contention to halt Brueckner — who German prosecutors named successful June 2020 arsenic the premier fishy successful the disappearance of Madeleine — going backmost connected the streets.

A erstwhile compartment mate precocious claimed Brueckner confessed to taking a kid from a Portuguese level during a break-in.

But Brueckner has ne'er been formally charged and denies involvement.

Worried Hazel past nighttime said she was “terrified” of the imaginable of the intersexual predator being released — and warned that helium volition onslaught again.

She declared: “I’ve been connected the receiving extremity of Christian Brueckner.

“And I truly bash judge that helium volition re-offend.

“I don’t deliberation idiosyncratic who is arsenic sick arsenic him cannot.

“It’s similar a compulsion, similar they person to bash it. It’s a need, a sick request for radical similar that. And it’s ne'er stopped him before.

“Court cases, jailhouse time, these kinds of things person ne'er stopped him.

“You’d privation to beryllium a peculiar benignant of f***ed up to privation to interaction children oregon rape women. He’s ne'er going to larn a lesson.

“He’s going to bash it again. He doesn’t attraction astir anyone.

“I’m terrified astatine the imaginable of him getting out.”