Maddie suspect Christian Brueckner speaks out for the first time since jail release in bizarre interview from a field – but refuses to discuss missing Brit toddler and says he is being ‘hounded’

The freed suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has given his first full interview since being released from jail – but refused to discuss the missing British toddler.

In a bizarre sit-down conversation conducted in a field, Christian Brueckner said he does ‘not feel free’ because he is wearing an ankle tag and is ‘followed around by police 24/7’.

It comes just hours after the German native attempted to confront the prosecutor who accused him of killing Maddie.

Brueckner travelled hundreds of miles to challenge lawyer Hans Christian Wolters, who has long stated he has evidence which proves Brueckner’s involvement in the toddler’s 2007 disappearance.

After being released from a rape sentence two weeks ago, Brueckner, who has denied all allegations relating to Maddie, claimed he wanted to see the prosecutor ‘take responsibility’ for what he believes has led to him being ‘hounded by the media’.

Now, speaking in an interview with Sky News, Brueckner explained how he wants Wolters to stop the ‘witch hunt against me and give me my life back’.

The suspect said Wolters refused to meet him, adding that he was told he was no longer ‘their responsibility’ because he had been convicted and released.

And when pressed by the interviewer if he killed Maddie, Brueckner replied: ‘My defence lawyers have told me to say nothing on this topic and unfortunately I have to abide by that.’

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In a bizarre interview conducted from a field, Christian Brueckner said he does ‘not feel free’

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The German native could be seen wearing an ankle tag, which he says has police monitoring him ’24/7′

Brueckner, who has not been arrested, charged or questioned by German officials about Maddie’s disapperance, has also refused to speak with Scotland Yard and Portuguese police in their investigations on the case.

Since being released from Sehnde prison, near Hanover, on September 17, where he was serving a seven-year sentence for the 2005 rape of an American pensioner in Portugal, Brueckner has been living in Neumunster.

After he walked out of the prison, his every move has been monitored by both German and international media.

Photographs have been published of him tucking into a burger outside a motorway McDonald’s.

Chilling CCTV footage from inside a mobile phone shop in the city appeared to show him laughing as he showed off his ankle tag, which enables police to track him round the clock, and attempting to buy an untraceable phone using his German ID card.

He is said to have bragged to the shop owner, during a 90-minute conversation, that he had information that ‘could bring the scandal of the century to an end’ – which many have taken to refer to Maddie, who disappeared while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz in 2007.

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The disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007 has never been solved

There have also been reports of him visiting a Domino’s takeaway, wearing a fake beard as he asked staff for free pizza, as well as concerning accounts of women screaming when he entered a nightclub.

Though his release had been on the cards for several months, Brueckner’s movements since leaving prison appear both unplanned and chaotic – something that does not instill confidence in those charged with keeping him under surveillance.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail last week, a source close to his legal team said he will not stay in Neumunster. Indeed, the plan is to move him to Munich – in the south of the country – at the earliest opportunity.

The move to a bigger city will make Brueckner less conspicuous – and, consequently, more difficult to track.

The source says Neumunster was never the plan, rather Brueckner ended up there by default.