MADELEINE McCann prosecutors have said "the clock is ticking" as they scramble to consider charging Christian Brueckner over her disappearance.
The German paedophile was cleared yesterday of carrying out a string of unrelated sex crimes in Portugal.
A source close to Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leics, said: "They will not be commenting on Brueckner. They have never commented on him." Furious prosecutors say they will take the case to Germany's Federal Court of Justice to appeal the verdicts and ask for a retrial.
But if they fail then Brueckner will walk free from prison next September.
He will be released at the end of a seven-year sentence for rape.
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