So, let me get this right.

In the process of investigating the death of Madeline McCann, the authorities have found a new suspect. They say they have "some evidence" to suggest it was a German man named Christian Bruckner.

As a result of this, a woman has come out and asked investigators to take another look at her case. She was savagely attacked, raped and beaten. She had to go through further humiliation when the police showed up and asked her to strip naked in star-jump position so they could photograph her wounds.

She reported what happened, but nothing came of it. As always! This is why women don't report this stuff. They have to go through the humiliation of the process, knowing that only 1.7% of reported rapes even make it to prosecution, let alone conviction.

They guy they are looking for in the McCann case is CLEARLY the guy who attacked her. He tried his best to disguise himself, but she heard his German accent, saw his blue eyes, got his height right, and even spotted a birthmark on his thigh that is consistent with his description.

JUSTICE FOR HAZEL!!! WHY IS IT THAT WE EACH KNOW TENS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN RAPED, YET MOST HAVE NEVER MET A CONVICTED RAPIST?

WE ARE NEVER BELIEVED!

Unsurprisingly, if you're BAME, you're even less likely to get a conviction.

The whole story:

Christian Brückner, the man identified as a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, had his first conviction as a teenager.

In 1994, when just a teenager, he was convicted in his homeland of sexual abuse of a child, attempted sexual abuse of a child, and carrying out sexual acts in front of a child.
The following year, as an 18-year-old who had just got his driving licence, he fled Germany for Portugal with a girlfriend to escape the youth custody sentence he had received, abandoning his apprenticeship as a car mechanic in the process.

His most serious conviction was for a disturbing sexual attack on a woman: the rape of a 72-year-old American whose flat was on the 1km route between his house and the beach which he walked every day. The attack took place on 2 September 2005, and according to court documents seen by the Guardian, it was planned in detail.

According to the documents, Brückner entered the woman’s house at about 10.30pm through the open door of her living room. He dragged her through the house, tying her down, beating her with a 30cm scimitar, raping her, and then leading her to the kitchen where he forced her to hand over money before he left by foot, taking her computer.

The crime was investigated by Portuguese authorities but was closed the following year. Brückner’s involvement only came to light much later, after a former accomplice, with whom he had previously stolen diesel fuel, discovered a video Brückner had apparently filmed of the rape, and eventually went to police.
Late last year, 14 years after the crime, Brückner was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping the American woman, who was now 86.

During the year of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance – two years after the rape – he was living in Praia da Luz, the place where Madeline went missing.

Since the police have begun to re-investigate Bruckner as a suspect, another woman has come forward.

Hazel Behan was working in Praia da Rocha, Portugal, 30 minutes’ drive from where Madeleine was abducted, when she was viciously assaulted by a stranger in her apartment in 2004. The assailant was never caught.

Behan was alerted to the police appeal for new evidence in connection with Christian Brückner, named as a key suspect in Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance, when she discovered the 43-year-old German had recently been convicted of the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz in 2005.

“My mind was blown when I read how he had attacked a woman in 2005, both the tactics and the methods he used, the tools he had with him, how well he had planned it out,” she said. “I puked, to be honest with you, as reading about it took me right back to my experience.” Behan has waived her right to anonymity.
In 2004, she was working as a holiday representative at a resort in the coastal town of Praia da Rocha and was two weeks away from her 21st birthday when she was attacked in her apartment.

“I had gone to bed around 1am, and was awoken by someone calling my name. I turned on to my back and standing there was a masked man dressed in tights and what resembled a leotard, a machete around 12in long in his hand,” she said.
The man, who she later told police spoke English with a German accent, was about 6ft 1in. He wore a mask that covered his whole head, she said, “but I could see he had blond eyebrows, and piercing blue eyes, even in the dark”.

She also recalled a distinctive mark on the top of his right thigh, “either a pull in the tights, a birthmark or a tattoo”. In descriptions of Brückner in the German media, he is said to have birthmarks on his upper right thigh.

Behan’s attacker, who removed his shoes at the door and set up a video camera in the room, told her not to scream. He dragged her into the living area and tied her to the countertop of the breakfast bar, before producing a bag of whips and chains. Using scissors to remove her clothes, he gagged her with cloth so she could not scream, and proceeded to beat and rape her.

He remains in custody in the north German city of Kiel, and his conviction is under review after defence lawyers argued he had been extradited – this time from Italy, where he had travelled – on another charge and therefore, under the rules of the European court of justice, they argue, he cannot be tried for a different crime.