The main suspect in her disappearance, Christian Bruckner, is trying to convince the world that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann by starting a letter writing campaign.

It appears the 45-year-old has written a series of letters hoping to gain publicity in his campaign to be cleared of any association with the case, according to the Daily Mail.

A letter was sent days before searches began this week at Portugal’s Arante Dam, just 35 miles from the Algarve resort village of Praia da Luz, where little Madeleine disappeared in May 2007 while on a family holiday.

The letter is written in pencil and clearly shows his obsession with trying to convince the authorities and the public, through the media, that he is innocent and had no involvement in Madeleine’s abduction.

Graphologist Tracey Trussell, who examined the latest letter and others he has sent over the past two years, said they showed that Bruckner was “deluded” and that his “fantasy views are fixed, unchanging”.

She said his letters indicated someone who wanted to “rule and control” but also “someone who suffers from feelings of guilt”.

“Whatever the truth, there is a need to constantly feed his ego and his ultimate goal is to gain some kind of recognition,” adds the graphologist.

Investigators investigating Christian Bruckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape, insist they have “concrete evidence” Madeleine is dead – and they believe he killed her.

“You can never imagine what it’s like when the whole world thinks you’re a child killer and you’re not,” he says in one of his letters.

He almost seems to gloat in the knowledge that he won’t face a judge: “I was told a long time ago that the DA closed Madeleine’s case because there’s not a shred of evidence. There will never be a trial. “The prosecutors are not saying anything to the public because they have to give the files to my lawyers – and they contain a lot of material that confirms my innocence.”

Bruckner adds that police and prosecutors are “trying to create a monster” to “distract and let people think I’m the one.”

The main theme in all his letters – all written in almost perfect English – is how he is being “persecuted” by prosecutors and complains of psychological pressure being put on him by talking about “torture”. “I am not in a position to say the actual treatment I am receiving because I do not have the right words for it. Of course, all this is happening on the orders of the BKA (German criminal police).”

In fact, he does not hesitate to say that other people in his position would have made a compromise but not the one who… endures.

Bruckner ends his letter by once again protesting that he is a scapegoat and remains steadfastly convinced that time will eventually prove him innocent.

Closing his last letter he says defiantly: “I write without self-pity and my confidence and self-control have never been at a higher level. What does not kill you makes you stronger. Head’s up! Better days are coming”.

In 2019, Bruckner was sentenced to seven years in prison in his native Germany for raping a 72-year-old American woman in her home in 2005 in Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve coast. He was convicted after his DNA was found at the scene, which he denies doing while in an earlier letter he admitted he had “made mistakes” in his life but denied “raping or torturing anyone”.