内容摘要：For an air ambulance fundraiser last year, it was Beckham that Prince William asked to help successfully raise £15m.

For an air ambulance fundraiser last year, it was Beckham that Prince William asked to help successfully raise £15m.

Since 2019, Brückner has been in prison in Germany for raping a 72-year-old American woman in Praia da Luz in 2005. But he is due for release in September, or in January if he does not pay an outstanding fine.Brückner told an RTL reporter earlier this year that he was looking forward to a "decent steak and a beer". The concern is that he will leave the country and head somewhere with no extradition treaty with Germany, though he appears to have no money.

The Braunschweig prosecutors' confidence was dealt a severe blow last year when they put Brückner on trial for rape and unconnected attempted child abductions.Mr Busching gave evidence, but the court in Braunschweig acquitted Brückner and suddenly time was very short.Mr Wolters has made no secret of the fact that he wants more evidence to charge Brückner. That is why the BKA footed the bill for

in ruined farm buildings on merciless, shadeless scrubland in the rising heat of an Algarve summer.The buildings are frequented at night by the kind of drifters and petty criminals that Brückner once was. Nearby residents told us they sometimes find looted suitcases among the ruins that have been stolen from holidaymakers.

But this week's searches were not targeted on one specific building, so any intelligence they were based on was clearly quite vague.

It all felt a bit like a last desperate attempt to back Mr Busching's statements with concrete, physical evidence.The handling of the case led to

. She later resigned in January.When asked if she fears there may be other cases similar to Malkinson's out there, Dame Vera said there is doubt around whether the CCRC is doing their job in a "rigorous and positive way at all".

Since the Malkinson case the CCRC has initiated an internal review of cases in which DNA was an element in convictions of people for the most serious crimes."There is a question mark over that," she said, "which stems from the cases we know that have been catastrophically handled. I think as we dig a little deeper, and as I talk to people who tried to get cases referred, we may find more."