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Madeleine McCann’ abduction suspect may be up for early release from prison
The court will make a ruling this coming Monday, determining if the 43-year-old suspect will be eligible for an early release.
Madelene McCann and her suspected abductor
The decision to call in the high court came after lower level courts in Kiel and Braunschweig failed to agree on which jurisdiction is responsible for taking the decision.
A 43-year-old man in prison in the northern city of Kiel is serving a sentence imposed for a drugs offence in 2011.
The sentence ends in 2021, but the man has served two-thirds of the time and has applied for early release.
It is more than 13 years since three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the Portuguese coastal village of Praia da Luz while on holiday with her parents, Kate and Gerry, and siblings. As the Metropolitan Police have identified a suspect, her…
The Kiel court threw the case back to Braunschweig, saying that the court there had begun looking into the issue before the man’s transfer to Kiel.
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