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EXCLUSIVE By Jon Clarke and Rainer Buckhard in Braunschweig
COPS have discovered a van driven by Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner had secret compartments.
The white Mercedes had been adapted to create two hidden spaces, one in the wall and one in the floor, the Olive Press can reveal.
German detectives seized the Sprinter van from its new owner earlier this month to check for DNA matches with missing Inga Gehricke, 5.
They believe he was driving it when the German toddler – dubbed the ‘German Maddie’ – vanished in remarkably similar circumstances and almost the same date.
READ MORE: ‘Christian Brueckner abused my four-year-old daughter during dog walks in the park’
They are now scouring it ‘for any DNA links to Maddie or other missing children,’ …
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