A plan to steal a child to sell was being devised in a Portuguese holiday resort just a week before Madeleine McCann disappeared, an expat has alleged. Ken Ralphs said prime suspect Christian Brueckner attempted to enlist a mutual friend to help find a youth to sell to a childless couple. According to Ralphs – a former UK political campaigner – Brueckner offered the job to a man living in a tent in a remote part of the Algarve coast. The mutual friend – who cannot be named for legal reasons- and Ralphs and convicted rapist Brueckner were all part of a nomadic, bohemian community living off-gri…
