The man suspected of abducting Madeleine McCann has no chance of being freed from jail on parole, German prosecutors insist.
Christian Brueckner, 43, is serving 21 months for drugs offences and is appealing a seven-year term for raping an American woman, 72, in Portugal, where Madeleine went missing.
There have been reports he may be released from jail in Kiel by exploiting a legal loophole.
Prosecutor Stephanie Gropp said “the condemned man will not get out” even if he is granted parole – because a detention order issued over the rape “has not yet been revoked”.
Brueckner is now the prime suspect in Madeleine’s abduction.
Phone tracking devices placed him in Praia da Luz an hour before she disappeared in 2007.
Her parents Gerry and Kate, from Leicestershire, are being kept updated.
An investigation by an Australian TV station confirmed earlier reports that thousands of child porn images were found at Brueckner’s German home.
A friend compared him to Austrian sex beast Josef Fritzl.
They said: “He told me he wanted to build a dungeon like that guy in Austria.”
