Brueckner reportedly told his lawyer he wants to move to the island of Sylt (Image: Phil Harris)

Christian Brueckner, the notorious suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, is eyeing up a swanky new pad on Germany’s ‘billionaire playground island’ once he’s out of jail.

The 48 year old convicted sex offender is due to walk free on September 17 after serving his seven-year stretch at Sehnde prison for the 2005 rape of an American OAP. He has previously been bragging about vanishing off the grid but his lawyer Friedrich Fuelscher has claimed Brueckner fancies sticking around in Germany post-release – and he’s got his sights set on a posh spot.

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“According to my information, he plans to settle in Schleswig-Holstein,” Fuelscher dished to Bild. And it seems Brueckner’s got a taste for the high life, with the ritzy North Sea isle of Sylt in his crosshairs. “Sylt has appealed to him in the past,” added Fuelscher.

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Brueckner previously ran a cannabis dealing operation on the wealthy island of Sylt(Image: Getty Images)

Perched at the tip of Germany, Sylt is an island anchored in the chilly waters of the North Sea, accessed via the causeway known as Hindenburgdamm since 1927. Throughout WW2, it was loaded with concrete bunkers, tucked under hills of sand, leaving behind a scattered trail of wartime debris and ruins still scattered across the island.

From the swinging sixties onwards, Sylt underwent a posh transformation into a swanky escape for the cashed-up elite. Nowadays, it’s still the go-to spot for loaded tycoons, celebs, and models craving haute cuisine, swish shopping, deluxe pampering, and Kampen’s legendary ‘Whisky Mile’.

The island is famed too for its striking dunes and sprawling 40 km of sandy shoreline. But of late, the island has been caught up in unsettling episodes connected to the far-right. A vile video surfaced showing party-goers at a Sylt club spewing a Nazi chant: “Germany for the Germans – foreigners out”, sparking national uproar.

German police spent three days searching for evidence on abandoned farmland near Praia da Luz(Image: PA)

This scandal shook the country to its core as it wasn’t your usual suspects—hooligans or skinheads—but rich ‘yuppies’ leading the disgraceful rally. Left-wing protest groups set up camps on the island to demonstrate against what they alleged was elite gentrification and far-right infiltration, reports the Mirror.

Brueckner’s release will comee just weeks after German detectives spent 72 hours combing through parts of Portugal earlier in the month. The three-day search operation focused on land near Brueckner’s former dilapidated cottage home close to the Algarve resort where Madeleine disappeared on 3 May 2007.

During the most recent search cops have reportedly unearthed two firearms and it has been reported fragments of clothing and bones have been sent off for testing after being uncovered at the scene.