Cops probe Maddie pervert's quick escape from Portugal

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31 May 2009
Sunday Mirror
Justin Penrose


British police probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann want to know why paedophile Raymond Hewlett left Portugal so quickly after she vanished. They have quizzed a witness who says sex attacker Hewlett told of being outside the apartment where Maddie was snatched "several times".
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Maddie cops: 5 to quiz

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31 May 2009
The News of the World


Investigators hired by Kate and Gerry McCann last night revealed they have uncovered FIVE vital new witnesses in the hunt for missing Madeleine. The cold case sleuths are working through them, checking their alibis. All were living near Praia da Luz at the time Maddie disappeared on May 3, 2007. They have already secured an interview with paedophile Raymond Hewlett in hospital in Germany. And they also want to quiz Michael Green, 48, who has an alibi, and three unnamed men on the list. Our own investigation uncovered Barrington Norton, 58, who lives in a van, but was quizzed at the time. A source said: "There is no evidence they have involvement in Madeleine's abduction but could hold crucial clues about others they know in the area."
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Lair of a monster

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31 May 2009
The Sunday Life
EXCLUSIVE ON THE TRAIL OF NO.1 SUSPECT IN MYSTERY OF THE DECADE
Rodney Edwards
This is the Ulster flat where Maddie suspect and convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett lived in the ’90s 

A convicted paedophile who is a suspect in the disappearance of Madeline McCann previously lived in this Fermanagh block of flats. Raymond Hewlett (62) resided in a small apartment above a chip shop on Enniskillen’s Belmore Street and made several friends in the town. Hewlett is now the main suspect in the Maddie case after it emerged he lived near Praia da Luz at the time Maddie went missing from the Portuguese resort in May 2007, days before her fourth birthday.
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DNA test for paedophile

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30 May 2009
Weekend Post

Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett has given a sample of his DNA to police in Germany. The convicted paedophile, 62 – under treatment for throat cancer – provided a saliva swab from his hospital bed in Aachen. It followed a request from police in West Yorkshire investigating a sexual assault in 1975. Private investigators acting for Maddie’s parents could then ask for it to be compared with DNA found in the holiday flat from which their daughter was snatched in 2007.
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So did he snatch Maddie? This British paedophile's likeness to the sketch of a Maddie suspect


30 May 2009
Daily Mail
David Jones


The British paedophile's likeness to the sketch of a Maddie suspect is uncanny - and he admits being just an hour away on the day that she disappeared. He furiously protests his innocence. But as this chilling dispatch reveals, he has a truly horrifying past... and some disturbing questions to answer









Addressed to an internet agency which peddles stories to low-brow media outlets, the email seemed absurdly far-fetched.

During a road-trip through Pakistan a decade ago, the woman informant wrote, she and her husband had stumbled upon the secret lair of Osama bin Laden.

When they tried to report their sensational discovery to U.S. authorities, nobody would listen.

Oh yes, she added almost as an afterthought, and while travelling through southern Portugal more recently, the couple had become friendly with a British man whom they later discovered to be a serial child sex attacker.

What's more, they now suspected him to be the monster who abducted Madeleine McCann.

Quite whether the tipsters (a down-to-earth, middle-aged couple named Alan and Cindy Thompson, who spend their summers in East Anglia and their winters abroad in a camper van) really did have a close encounter with the Al-Qaeda leader is open to question.

Extraordinarily, however, when their claims about the McCann case were closely checked, it turned out that they were telling the truth.

Thus, a few days ago, began the latest twist in a seemingly interminable saga that never fails to astonish and perplex; and which, until then, seemed to be rapidly running out of steam, for all the best efforts of Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann and their team.

It has shone an unwelcome torch on the activities of the man the Thompsons met on their trek through Portugal, 64-year-old Raymond Hewlett - a thoroughly vile character with a record of serious paedophile offences dating back to the Seventies.

Despite the somewhat haphazard manner in which his name comes to be in the frame, detectives retained by the McCanns are taking his possible involvement in her disappearance seriously.

Last Monday, the former British police officers, Dave Edgar and Arthur Crowley, attempted to interview him in a German hospital, where he is recovering from an operation to remove a tumour on his oesophagus.
Artist's impression: The McCanns recently released a picture of what Madeleine could look like today

Looking haggard and screaming obscenities at waiting journalists, the wheelchair-bound Hewlett refused to be questioned by the McCann team, changing his mind only after they had flown home to Britain. The police officers plan to return to Germany.

As Mr Edgar remarked, this is the first time since they took over the inquiry from the Spanish investigations agency Metodo 3 last autumn that they have felt the necessity to confront a suspect.

'It looked at one stage like he might die,' Mr Edgar, a former RUC officer, explained.

'The last thing we want is for the speculation to continue and for people to say he has taken the secret (of Madeleine's abduction) to the grave.'

Meanwhile, Hewlett's emergence has prompted West Yorkshire police to seek leave from the German authorities to quiz him about an unsolved attack on an eight-year-old girl in 1975.

Hewlett's defiant response this week was to supply a DNA sample which, he insists, will clear him of that assault.

Unfortunately it is unlikely to be of use in the Madeleine inquiry, for the Portuguese judicial police are not thought to have gathered any unidentified genetic material from the McCanns' apartment, against which it might be matched.

In any case, the inept 'PJ' - as the Portuguese police are known - are unlikely to be joining the queue to interview Hewlett in hospital, for they are clearly uninterested in him, or any other new suspect, for that matter.

In recent days, they have reportedly rebuffed several other new informants, informing them that they are wasting their time because the little girl is dead.

Furthermore, I am told the PJ ignore clues passed to them by Messrs Edgar and Crowley, and when the private detectives visit Portugal they are tailed as if they were the criminals.

The question is, by failing to investigate Hewlett (who has served three prison sentences for sexual assaults on children, once rendering his victim unconscious by smothering her with a rag soaked in paint-thinner; a method which some surmise might have been used to subdue Madeleine), could they be missing an opportunity to solve the McCann mystery once and for all?

Understandably, given all the false dawns they have endured over the past two years, the McCann camp remain cautious when discussing Hewlett's possible involvement.

However, spokesman Clarence Mitchell speaks of the 'eerie similarities' between the former Scots Guardsman and an artist's sketch of the gaunt suspect with lank, shoulder-length hair, who was seen near the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on and around May 3, 2007, when Madeleine was snatched from her bed.

Mr Edgar says: 'From the information I've seen, he wouldn't be at the top of our list, but he is definitely of interest to us and we need to eliminate him.'

There are huge blanks in Hewlett's story, but he seems to have started wandering during the early Nineties after being released from his last jail term, for abducting and assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Cheshire.

After a period in Ireland (where he is suspected of attacking at least one other child), he journeyed overland through France and Spain to southern Portugal.

Home was a battered blue Dodge truck, which Hewlett, a dextrous mechanic, converted into a camper using parts he cannibalised from other vehicles.

He shared it with his pony-tailed German girlfriend, Marianne Schmucker, who, at 33, is half his age.

Significantly, perhaps, the Mail has learned that he sold the Dodge to Portuguese travellers for 300 euros, not long after Madeleine vanished, and replaced it with a white Iveco model.

If traced, his old camper could contain valuable forensic evidence.

Hewlett has at least two grown-up children from his first marriage - a daughter named Gina, 41, to whom he wrote self-pitying letters from prison, and a son Wayne, 40, who this week described his father as a 'monster' who beat him savagely when he was a boy.

On the road, however, he sired six more offspring by Marianne, who, one friend recalls, 'always seemed to be pregnant'.

The oldest, David, was killed last December, apparently falling out of the van as the family drove through Spain en route to Germany.

The Spanish authorities are investigating the incident and may charge Hewlett with negligence.

According to the friend, the family preferred the Costa del Sol to Portugal, but Hewlett grew tired of dodging Spain's 'social police', who asked questions about the children's welfare and wanted to know why the older ones didn't go to school (Marianne taught them herself).

By 2006, the family had decamped to the Algarve, basing themselves in a car park beside a supermarket in Tavira, a former fishing town between Faro and the Spanish border.

It was one of the few places where they weren't chased away by the authorities. They were allowed to wash in the supermarket toilets.

Since Hewlett and Marianne had so many blonde, blue-eyed children, their circle of bohemian friends were keen to help them, and one English woman gave them hundreds of pounds to buy their new mobile home.

In return for such favours, Hewlett would mend their vehicles while Marianne would don a pink bunny suit and play the flute on the town's Roman bridge, instructing her children to collect money from tourists.

But Hewlett was no easygoing hippy. Friends recall him as an overbearing 'control freak' who never let Marianne and the children out of his sight.

He was also furtive and 'never let one hand know what the other was doing'. Nor did he socialise much, preferring to chain-smoke cigarettes, and sometimes cannabis.

One friend says his children were 'immaculately' turned out and well-behaved. But another says they were 'cowed and mute', and now fears Hewlett may have abused them, too.

None of his close circle in Tavira had any idea about his sordid past - nor that he was wanted by police in England.

Rumours began to circulate only last summer, when he sneaked back to Britain because he needed documents to obtain free overseas hospital treatment and claim his old age pension, due next year.

One source says: 'He was driven by a friend and the police must have learned he was in Britain, because they raided the house he was staying in during the night.'

It is unclear whether the police arrived too late and Hewlett had fled, or whether they let him go.

Hewlett's partner, Marianne Schmucker, is reported to have had no idea about the paedophile's past.

But he hastily returned to Portugal, where the friend he'd driven with to Britain typed Hewlett's name into Google and learned the truth about his past.

The news then reached Alan and Cindy Thompson, who had met Hewlett a few months before Madeleine's abduction and remained loosely in touch after returning to East Anglia.

Their internet searches would have revealed that his name came up in November 2007 during a notorious 'cold case' trial - in which new evidence causes an old case to be reopened - when Ronald Castree was convicted of the frenzied sex murder of 11-year-old schoolgirl Lesley Molseed, more than 30 years ago.

After the murder in 1975, loner Stefan Kiszko was wrongfully convicted. He had served 16 years for murder before his conviction was overturned, and modern DNA testing techniques proved that Castree's semen was on Lesley's underwear.

However, Castree's barrister had maintained he did not kill her. He said there was 'overwhelming evidence' that Hewlett - whose car was allegedly parked close to the murder scene in the Pennines - was the 'probable' culprit.

Marianne knew nothing of Hewlett's past convictions until this week, I am told, and discovered the truth only when the McCann detectives descended on Aachen, where she and Hewlett have settled with their five surviving children in a council flat.

'She is absolutely beside herself,' one friend says.

Gullibly, one might think, this friend believes Hewlett and remains convinced he had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance.

So what is the evidence? We know Hewlett was within easy driving distance of Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, for he admits to being on the Algarve on that date, and nowhere on the coast is more than 90 minutes' drive from the McCanns' resort.

We know he looks like the 'hairy man' with a zapata moustache in the sketch.

We know, too, that he frequently took the sea crossing from Spain to Morroco, where there have been reported sightings of a girl resembling Madeleine and where some fear she has been sold to paedophiles.

Moreover, according to one source, Hewlett was adept at smuggling his children aboard the ferry to Tangier.

And as the source remarked: 'Would one more little girl have made that much difference?'

Others among Hewlett's old travelling circle have also emerged to incriminate him. The most compelling of these is Cornwall-based antiques dealer Peter Ferran (SIC-Peter Verran), 46, who recalls meeting him in a Morocco campsite just after Madeleine was snatched.

He says Hewlett told him he was worried that people might think one of his daughters was Madeleine, because she bore such a strong resemblance to her, and added: 'Madeleine's not in Morocco.'

Hewlett had readily admitted having been in Praia da Luz 'many times'. He said he knew the layout of the Ocean Club, where the McCanns stayed, and was adamant Madeleine couldn't have been taken without her parents seeing.

Yet there are convincing clues that point to Hewlett's innocence. He maintains he has an alibi for May 3, 2007 - he and his family were trading at a flea market.

According to reports this week, Hewlett must have been mistaken - or lying - because the Fuzeta market is held only on the first Sunday of each month, and Madeleine was taken on a Thursday.

However, the Mail has established that there is also a sale at this site on the first Thursday of the month, though it usually attracts only gipsies.

Whatever the truth, he does seem to have been at the market three days after the abduction.

For the Mail has spoken to an English expat who keeps a detailed daily diary and says he logged the fact that he parked his camper near Hewlett's blue Dodge on Sunday, May 6, 2007.

He also noted a meeting with Hewlett and his family at another market at Mertola, 30 miles along the coast, on May 18, 2007.

These diary entries don't account for his movements on May 3, of course, and certainly not between 9pm and 10pm that evening, when the abductor is believed to have struck.

Yet as the source - who did not much like Hewlett and is no apologist for him - asks: 'Is it really possible that he drove into a small, out-of-season resort like Praia da Luz in a big blue truck that stood out like a sore thumb without being seen?

'If he did go there, maybe in another vehicle, could he have taken Madeleine without his family knowing?

'Marianne may be devoted to him, but I can't believe that if she did know he had done something so terrible she wouldn't have told someone.'

Any number of experts would question this bold assertion, for the evidence suggests that serial child molesters such as Hewlett rarely change their spots.

That doesn't make him guilty, of course, just as it doesn't prove the culpability of the 38 other convicted child sex attackers known to have been lurking in the Algarve when this terrible crime was perpetrated.
  
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Hewlett gives DNA sample

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29 May 2009
The Daily Express


Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett has given a DNA sample to police from his hospital bed. Paedophile predator Hewlett delivered the saliva sample after a request from British police, who have linked him to two child abuse cases in Britain in 1975.

Hewlett, 64, who has a string of convictions for sex attacks on children, is being treated for cancer in Germany. He became a suspect in Madeleine's case after a couple revealed he bragged of knowing the layout of the McCanns' apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal. At the time he was living at a campsite an hour away. He has now agreed to speak to investigators hired by Kate and Gerry McCann.
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Hewlett gave DNA sample to German police

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29 May 2009
Metro


A convicted paedophile has voluntarily given a sample of his DNA to German police after a request from detectives. Briton Raymond Hewlett was living in Tavira, a coastal town an hour's drive from Praia da Luz, when Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007 while on holiday with her family in Portugal. He has apparently given the sample to police in Aachen, where he is being treated in hospital for cancer. But it is thought to be connected with an indecent assault allegation being investigated by West Yorkshire Police and not with the disappearance of Madeleine.
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McCann-link paedophile agrees to DNA test

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29 May 2009
Yorkshire Post
John Roberts

A CONVICTED paedophile linked to the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance has agreed to give a sample of his DNA to German police in connection with another case, it was reported last night.

Raymond Hewlett is believed to be giving the sample voluntarily to police in Aachen, in connection with an indecent assault 34 years ago being investigated by West Yorkshire Police.

He is a suspect in an attack on an eight-year-old girl in Manchester, in 1975, and detectives in Yorkshire have already written to German authorities seeking permission to speak to him.

The ex-soldier has also been linked to the Madeleine McCann case after it emerged that Hewlett was staying about an hour from the McCann's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in Portugal on the night their daughter vanished.

Hewlett, who formerly lived in Todmorden, has been jailed for sex crimes in Yorkshire. He is currently being treated for throat cancer in hospital in Germany.

The McCann's private investigators Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley have named him as a "person of interest" but have so far failed to secure an interview with him.

However the McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell said an interview will be arranged after Hewlett declared that he had "nothing to hide" and was willing to speak to the investigators.

Hewlett has been a suspect in the indecent assault case in Manchester since 1999.

Detectives from West Yorkshire applied for permission to interview him three weeks ago and are set to fly to Germany as soon as permission is granted. The victim in this case, who is now 42, has been kept informed on the progress of the investigation.

Hewlett was also suspected of murdering Lesley Molseed, 11, whose body was found on moorland, near Ripponden, in 1975, but was cleared when DNA evidence revealed her killer was Oldham man Ronald Castree.

Hewlett abducted a 12-year-old girl in Todmorden in 1972 and attempted to rape a girl, 14, at gunpoint in 1978 – for which he received jail terms of 18 months and four years.

After kidnapping and assaulting another 14-year-old girl in North Wales he fled to Ireland. He was captured in 1989 and jailed for six years.
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Madeleine suspect's sex attack on girl, 14

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28 May 2009
Chester Chronicle
Dave Goodban


Fiend wanted for questioning 21 years after paper round assault

A CONVICTED child molester wanted for questioning in connection with Madeleine McCann's disappearance was jailed for six years for sexually assaulting a Cheshire schoolgirl.

Former soldier Raymond Hewlett, 64, was locked up after grabbing the 14-year-old on her paper round at knifepoint in Cuddington in 1988.

"You know what is going to happen to you now," he told the terrified teenager when they arrived at a quarry 50 miles away in North Wales.

She was subjected to a brutal sex attack before being bundled into the boot of Hewlett's car and dumped a further 50 miles away at another quarry.

Hewlett, who left a hospital in Aachen, Germany, this week after throat cancer surgery, is believed to have been living in the Algarve when Madeleine disappeared in May 2007. He has a history of sex attacks on girls.

He served 12 months for an indecent assault in 1972 and 16 months of a four-year sentence for another in 1978.

He is currently wanted for questioning by British police for the indecent assault of a young girl in Yorkshire more than 30 years ago.

Ex-Cheshire detective Dave Edgar, hired by Kate and Gerry McCann to find Madeleine, has so far failed to secure an interview with Hewlett as he has no legal authority as a private investigator.

But as he left hospital on Monday night, Hewlett said: "I have nothing to hide - I am willing to talk."
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Maddie detectives to meet paedophile

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27 May 2009
Western Morning News

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Retired British detectives searching for Madeleine McCann have welcomed convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett's offer to answer their questions. The ex-policemen employed by the little girl's family hope to interview him about her disappearance in the "near future", a source close to them said. Hewlett, 64, is said to have been staying around an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz in Portugal when Madeleine vanished in May 2007. He protests his innocence...
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Maddie cops close in on second paedo Brit

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27 May 2009
Daily Star
Jerry Lawton
Is Brit 'spotty man'?


Detectives hunting Madeleine McCann want to quiz a second Brit paedophile living near the apartment where she was snatched. The cops believe the convicted sex offender could be the "spotty'' mystery man seen casing the family's holiday flat in the days leading up to the abduction. The man was investigated by Portuguese police shortly after Maddie disappeared from the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz on May 3 2007, days before her fourth birthday. They cleared him after a 12-year-girl who had seen the prowler was shown the suspect's picture and said it was not the same man. But 100 pages of notes relating to this part of the investigation were withdrawn from 17 volumes of police case files released to the public after a request from British police.
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Confronted

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27 May 2009
The Sun
Alex West


This is the moment The Sun confronted paedophile Raymond Hewlett over Madeleine McCann's disappearance. We stepped in to grill the convicted child abuser after he stonewalled private eyes acting for Maddie's parents Gerry and Kate.
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Maddie - Detectives "clown around" in Germany

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27 May 2009
Duarte Levy (also in 24horas)


The two former English policemen that were hired by the McCann couple, returned to England yesterday without having questioned the alleged “suspect” in the disappearance of Madeleine, after the German authorities classified their presence in Aachen as “a clown act”, accusing them of “trying to pressure the local judicial authorities”, using contacts among the British diplomatic representatives in Germany.

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Journal behind the Madeline McCann 8 Ball

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May 27, 2009
northbynorthwestblog

Yesterday’s Derry Journal ‘revealed’ that convicted sex offender, Raymond Hewlett, used to live in Urris, Co. Donegal.The story was already widely reported over the weekend, including the Sunday Tribune, which mentioned the Dunaff link, the Mail and the Times. The Irish Independent shockingly describes how Hewlett is a suspect for the disappearance of young Mary Boyle, 6, who went missing in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal in 1977. Hewlett was working reportedly working in the county at the time.
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Maddie suspect 'hid out' in Forres in '90s

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27 May 2009
Forres Gazette
Tanya McLaren

A convicted sex offender who sought refuge in Forres during the late 1990s is wanted for questioning by detectives investigating the the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from her parents' holiday flat in Portugal two years ago. advertising Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett (64), is now being treated for cancer in hospital in Germany where he is protesting his innocence. Media reports claim that Hewlett is also wanted by detectives for questioning by UK and Irish police in connection with other offences dating back more than 30 years.
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Docs bar DNA test on Maddie suspect

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26 May 2009 
Daily Star
Jerry Lawton
Hospital turns away ex-coppers

Detectives were yesterday turned away from a hospital where they want to quiz a paedophile about Madeleine McCann. They hope cancer victim Raymond Hewlett, 64, will take a DNA test to see if he was in the apartment when she was snatched two years ago. (Blogger note: Hewlett had already given DNA swab to the Portuguese police.) Briton Hewlett, who has served jail terms for abducting and sexually assaulting kids, was living near Praia da Luz in Portugal when the McCanns were on holiday there. His description matches a man with a droopy moustache seen carrying off a little blonde girl that night.
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REVEALED: MADELEINE SUSPECT'S INISH HOME

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Derry Journal
26 May 2009

Convicted child molester and key suspect in the Madeleine McCann case used to live in Urris, the Journal can reveal. Raymond Hewlett, aged 64, who has been jailed for a string of child sex crimes and assaults in Britain, lived in the peninsula for a period of time.
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Portugal police ignore 4 new Madeleine leads

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26 May 2009
The Daily Express
Nick Fagge


FOUR potential new leads in the hunt for Madeleine McCann have been dismissed in the past week by Portuguese police, who told the callers: "She is dead."They were told not to bother detectives with any new information about the missing youngster, a source close to the investigation claimed.
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Paedophile's phone signals checked in Maddie hunt

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26 May 2009
Yorkshire Post
Rob Preece


DETECTIVES leading the search for Madeleine McCann are to use mobile phone signals to track the movements of a violent paedophile who was in Portugal when she disappeared.

Raymond Hewlett, who has been jailed for sex attacks on young girls in the Yorkshire region, is said to have been staying near the McCanns' holiday flat when Madeleine went missing in May 2007.

A couple who alerted detectives to Hewlett's whereabouts after meeting him on holiday in Portugal were interviewed for three hours at the weekend by officers from Leicestershire Police.

Alan and Cindy Thompson handed over Hewlett's number, which police hope will enable them to access phone company records dating back to the night Madeleine disappeared.

The records are likely to show where calls on Hewlett's phone were made from, providing clues about his movements.

Hewlett, 64, is undergoing treatment for throat cancer in a German hospital, but police want to question him about a crime which took place in Yorkshire more than 30 years ago.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police are awaiting clearance from German authorities to interview him over an indecent assault from 1975.

Hewlett, who was suspected of murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed until DNA evidence trapped her killer, formerly lived in Todmorden, where he carried out some of his most serious attacks.

He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for abducting a 12-year-old girl and taking her on to moors near Todmorden in 1972.

In 1978 Hewlett attacked a 14-year-old girl in her Todmorden home. He was convicted of attempted rape and sentenced to four years in prison, but only served 16 months.

After kidnapping another 14-year-old girl in North Wales and sexually assaulting her, he fled to Ireland. He was captured in 1989 and jailed for six years.
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Cops ignore new Maddie evidence

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26 May 2009
The Sun
Alex West


Police have shunned FOUR potential new leads in the hunt for Madeleine McCann. Officers in Portugal are telling people coming forward with information that Maddie is DEAD - and the case is CLOSED. The shocking revelation came as new suspect Raymond Hewlett, a convicted British paedophile, refused to speak to detectives working for Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry.
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Cops check sex beast’s phone calls

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25 May 2009
Evening Express


Police are set to check the mobile phone record of a convicted child sex beast who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
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Suspect in Maddy probe knew layout of complex

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25 May 2009
Irish Independent

A convicted paedophile who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it was reported yesterday. Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz when she vanished on May 3 2007. The McCanns' investigation team wants to interview the 64-year-old in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on the little girl's disappearance.
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Police to test the DNA of Madeleine 'suspect'

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25 May 2009 
The Daily Express
Nick Fagge in Aachen

DNA samples are to be taken from a fugitive British paedophile linked to Madeleine McCann's disappearance. Private detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann will today fly to Germany in their hunt for clues. They want to question convicted pervert Raymond Hewlett over his whereabouts at the time Madeleine disappeared in May 2007. And yesterday it was revealed that German authorities want Hewlett, 64, to undergo a DNA test in the next few days.

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Phone check in search for Maddie

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25 May 2009
Liverpool Echo

The phone of a convicted paedophile may be checked to discover where he was on the day Madeleine McCann disappeared. Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying around an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz when she vanished on May 3 2007. The investigation team of Liverpool-born Kate McCann and husband Gerry wants to interview the 64-year-old in the hope he can shed light on the little girl's disappearance.
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Paedophile was at Maddie resort

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25 May 2009
Daily Telegraph

A convicted paedophile being investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann had visited the Portuguese resort the British girl was abducted from. Raymond Hewlett allegedly admitted he knew the layout of the luxury Ocean Club complex and had often parked outside the McCanns' flat, British newspapers reported. The McCanns' investigation team want to talk to the 64-year-old about Madeleine's disappearance on May 3, 2007. He is also wanted for questioning by British police for an indecent assault in 1975.
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Paedophile 'knew layout of Madeleine complex'

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25 May 2009
Yorkshire Post
Mike Waites


A convicted paedophile who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it was claimed yesterday.
Raymond Hewlett, who is also facing questions over an indecent assault in West Yorkshire three decades ago, is alleged to have been staying around an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz when she vanished on May 3 2007. The McCanns' investigation team wants to interview the 64-year-old in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on the little girl's disappearance.

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Monster boasted he knew Maddie resort 'very well

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25 May 2009
Daily Mail
Sam Greenhill

The wife of paedophile Raymond Hewlett declared him ' innocent' yesterday as it emerged that he was well acquainted with the resort where Madeleine McCann was staying. Marianna Schmuker said her husband had nothing to do with the little girl's disappearance, despite reports he was seen outside the apartment in Praia da Luz 'many times'.
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McCanns want paedophile interview

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25 May 2009
The Herald
Carolyn Churchill
Madeleine's parents hope new lead can help search

A convicted paedophile who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it has been reported. Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying around an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz when she vanished on May 3, 2007. The McCanns' investigation team wants to interview the 64-year-old in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on the little girl's disappearance.
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Madeleine team want to quiz convicted paedophile

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25 May 2009 
Belfast Telegraph

A convicted paedophile who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it has been reported. Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying around an hour’s drive from the McCanns’ holiday flat in Praia da Luz when she vanished on May 3 2007. The McCanns’ investigation team wants to interview the 64-year-old in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on the little girl’s disappearance.
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Where was he? Mobile records hold key:

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25 May 2009
Daily Mirror
Ryan Parry & Stephen Moyes
He'd been to Maddy resort: Cops want to trace his van.

The couple who raised the alarm about paedophile Ray Hewlett told yesterday how detectives who interviewed them asked: "Do you still have his mobile number." Alan and Cindy Thompson were questioned for three hours at the weekend by officers from Leicestershire Police's Madeleine McCann task force. Cindy, who handed over the foreign number, said yesterday: "The detective who interviewed me asked for Ray's number. He didn't say what they'll do with it, I just hope it helps in some way."
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Madeleine suspect in DNA test

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Madeleine suspect in DNA test
25 May 2009
Daily Star


A PAEDOPHILE linked to Madeleine McCann's disappearance will be asked to undergo a DNA test today. Private detectives hired by her parents Kate and Gerry, both 41, have flown to Germany to hunt for clues. They want to question convicted pervert Raymond Hewlett about their daughter.
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The whingeing prison letters that sickened pervert's own family

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May 25, 2009
Mirror
Richard Smith



Paedophile Raymond Hewlett sent his family sickening letters from his prison cell, in which he whinged that his young victims were to blame. Bemoaning "this wicked evil world" and desperate to convince relatives he was innocent, the wife-beater claimed he was not at fault before he was jailed for a third time for sex attacks.

In a spidery scrawl littered with grammatical errors, Hewlett wrote to his daughter: "I still feel as though I've been singled out to be tramped on and stamped on like some bloody insect." He even tried to say a girl of 14 he attacked "had complete control of the situation, I just went along with it". And the self-pitying sex beast complained he had been made out as "some sort of monster" and moaned about interfering social workers. Son Wayne, 40, one of four children from Hewlett's first marriage, to Susan Ginley, said yesterday: "He was always in denial over what he had done, as if it was somebody else's fault."
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Maddie suspect lived in Donegal

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24 May 2009
Donegal On Sunday
Connie Duffy


Investigators want to hear from anyone in Donegal who may have encountered a convicted British paedophile who has sensationally re-emerged as a key suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. Raymond Hewlett, 64, who has been jailed for a catalogue of child sex crimes and assaults in Britain, is known to have lived in Donegal as well as Louth and Kerry and visited at least nine counties, including Fermanagh and Tyrone.
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FIEND IN THE FRAME

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24 May 2009
The News of the World
BY KEITH GLADDIS

Maddie suspect's Irish past fits crime

A COP who interrogated Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett says the case carries all the hallmarks of the sick sex beast who struck in Ireland.

Former Detective Superintendent Trevor Wilkinson spent years on the trail of the convicted paedophile, who was in Portugal when Maddie vanished two years ago.

And Mr Wilkinson told the Irish News of the World the snatching of the child from her holiday apartment matches the predator's offending profile.

He said: "He is constantly looking for prey and we know he is prepared to enter a property to get to a child, which he's done."

Hewlett, 64, critically ill with cancer in a German hospital, has been jailed three times for kidnap and molesting young girls and is connected to a string of other attacks on kids.

In 1998 the Irish News of the World found him in an isolated cottage in the remote Cooley mountains in Co Louth. Schoolkids would visit his home where he pretended to be a maths teacher who could help with homework.

He was forced out of Dunaff, Co Donegal, moved near Tralee, Co Kerry, and has spent time in Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Wesmeath, Fermanagh, and Tyrone.

Detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann hope to quiz the pervert this week.

They plan to grill him about his whereabouts when Maddie went missing and about other paedos in Portugal. Ex-detective Dave Edgar and his team have just gathered new information in the Algarve.
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Sex offender linked to Madeleine 'not under suspicion' here – gardaí

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May 24, 2009
Tribune
Ali Bracken

Raymond Hewlett: lived in Cork and Donegal

A serial sex offender, whom private detectives are "interested" in speaking to about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, lived in Ireland on and off between 1997 and 2001 but was never under investigation for committing a crime in this country. Garda sources have hit out at "hysterical stories" in newspapers last week stating that Raymond Hewlett, 64, who is being treated for throat cancer in a German hospital, is wanted for questioning by gardaí for alleged crimes here.
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McCanns urge paedophile to help search

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24 May 2009
Independent On Sunday
Nina Lakhani


A convicted sex offender is thought to have information on events preceding Madeleine's abduction. Gerry and Kate McCann pleaded for a convicted sex offender to "see sense" and co-operate fully with investigators searching for their missing daughter. Raymond Hewlett, 64, has served several jail sentences for sexually assaulting young girls and is also wanted for questioning by British detectives for at least one unresolved sexual offence.
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British police to question the latest suspect

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24 May 2009
The Express on Sunday
Ted Jeory


Madeleine McCann may have been taken to a luxury villa just half-a-mile from where she was abducted, Portuguese detectives were told. Suspicions were raised by the behaviour of the people who rented the £1million house and because video cameras were reportedly seen there along with pictures of children on a wall, the Sunday Express has learned. Our revelations come as West Yorkshire police prepare to fly to Germany to question 64-year-old convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett over a sex attack on a girl 25 years ago.
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Hewlett's brother: our family shame

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24 May 2009
The Express on Sunday
David Paul

The brother of paedophile Raymond Hewlett - now the prime suspect in the Madeleine abduction case - says their mother will be "turning in her grave" now he has been linked to the disappearance. Devastated Bernard Hewlett, 59, said the only comfort was that his mother Lois and father Richard will not have to face yet another police inquiry into their eldest son's depraved lust for children which stretches back more than three decades.
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Irish haven of Madeleine suspect

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May 24 2009
Sunday Independent
Jim Cusack


Raymond Hewlett, the convicted paedophile who has emerged as a suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, travelled back and forth between Britain and Ireland from the mid-Seventies until 1999.
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Maddie suspect: I'll take lie test

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24 May 2009
People
Russell Myers


Paedophile Hewlett will prove innocence, wife insists

MADELEINE McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett is ready to take a LIE DETECTOR test to prove his innocence in the case.

The convicted paedophile has carried out a string of vile attacks on children but denies any link to Maddie's disappearance.

But police face a race against time to establish the truth, as last night doctors were battling to keep Hewlett alive after complications following a cancer op.

The fiend, 64, was said to have suffered massive internal bleeding, with a source adding: "His condition might worsen at any time which could end his life."

As Hewlett lay critical in hospital, his German wife Mariana Schmucker, 33 - mum to their six children - challenged Maddie's parents Gerry and Kate to come to see her.

She said: "I know about my Raymond's past and it is forgotten. He is a changed man. I know he didn't take Maddie.

"He is a very sick man and has said to me he will do anything to prove he is innocent - even take a lie detector test.

"Let the parents of Madeleine come here and ask him face-to-face if he had anything to do with their child going missing.

"My husband has nothing to do with little Madeleine. He's an innocent man and he'll prove it not anyone."

Mariana shares a squalid two bedroom flat - overlooking a kindergarten - with Hewlett and their children.

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It is just a few miles from where the suspect now lies in University Hospital, in Aachen, Germany.

Again denying any link to Maddie's abduction by her husband, Mariana said: "These are lies all lies. I know my husband more than anyone in this world and I will tell you he has done nothing wrong.

"Those police should be looking for the real man who took that little girl and not Raymond, he's a sick man, a very sick man." Former soldier turned drifter Hewlett had been living near Praia de Luz in Portugal when Maddie vanished from her family's holiday apartment in May 2007.

By the time he was tracked to Aachen, near the Belgian border, this month he was already seriously ill with lung cancer.

But British police still want to interview him about a sexual assault on a child in West Yorkshire in 1975, and the murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed that same year.

Hewlett served 12 months for abducting a 12-year-old girl, knocking her out with paint stripper and raping her in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, in 1972.

In 1978, he was jailed for four years after holding a 14-year-old girl and putting a gun to her head.

Last night, in a new twist, a British couple who first raised suspicions about Hewlett over missing Maddie a year ago claimed police had not taken them seriously until now.

Alan Thompson, 56, and his wife Cindy, 47, from Peterborough, Cambs, had met Hewlett while on holiday in Portugal.

Cindy told The People: "We cannot talk in detail about the police inquiry, but let's just say we are hoping they take this seriously now.

"We are utterly confused about the delay. It's a worry for us and it must be worse for the McCanns.

Alan said: "I only hope it is not too late." The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell, said the family's own investigators also wanted to speak to Hewlett, and to the Thompsons.

He said: "Mr Hewlett has denied any involvement in Madeleine's abduction.

"Our investigators hope he will see sense and co-operate by giving them whatever information needed so they can eliminate him from the investigation.

"It's clear the man is ill and it is clear he has information that our investigators need."

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THERE have been too many mistakes in the hunt for Madeleine McCann to allow there to be more.

Holiday couple Alan and Cindy Thompson raised concerns about paedophile Raymond Hewlett more than a year ago and they were ignored.

Now the wife of the cancer-stricken child molester tells The People he is prepared to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence.

Police should now give him the test. Before it is too late.
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I know Madeleine resort well

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24 May 2009
The Sunday Mirror
Simon Wright

Paedo's shock confession to holiday couple

The British paedophile linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has sensationally confessed to being outside her holiday apartment "many times". Convicted pervert Raymond Hewlett, 64, has admitted knowing the resort where the McCanns holidayed "very well" and said he had parked a van close to their complex on several occasions. And last night a man who shared a Morocco campsite with Hewlett and his family for three months described how the drifter was obsessed with the missing youngster.
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Maddie probe man’s city link

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23 May 2009
The Press and Journal
Shona Gossip

A man who was named yesterday as a possible suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann had previously lived in Aberdeen, it has emerged. Raymond Hewlett fled the Moray area in 1997 after it was revealed he was a convicted paedophile.
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Cunning predator and 30 years of depravity

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23 May 2009
Daily Mail
Michael Seamark


Compile a profile of Madeleine McCann's possible abductor and there are few more suitable suspects than Raymond Hewlett. He's a convicted predatory paedophile - a man detectives describe as cunning and a danger to children - who flits from country to country.Given that he speaks English and, crucially, was within striking distance of Praia da Luz when three-year- old Madeleine went missing, Hewlitt ticks a a great many boxes.
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Paedophile Raymond Hewlett lived life of a traveller

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23 May 2009
Daily Mirror
Aidan McGurran; Stephen Moyes
Paedophile Raymond Hewlett stayed in campsite with his family after leaving Portugal


The British convict left the Algarve as police continued to search for missing Madeleine McCann. While at the site, Hewlett eked a living selling items he had found or been given. His wife Mariana played a tin whistle and performed a puppet show. None of their six children are believed to have gone to school. Instead, the family would park at big hotels so tourists would see the kids and give them items. Everything had a value and when the family couldn't use something they would sell it. Hewlett had left the Algarve just as the tourist season was getting into full swing.
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Madeleine McCann police to quiz holiday couple who raised suspicions about paedophile Raymond Hewlett

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23 May 2009
Daily Mirror
Stephen Moyes and Jeremy Armstrong


Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett could be at the centre of three police inquiries as he lies in a German hospital recovering from throat cancer surgery.

Detectives from Leicestershire police yesterday said they wanted to question British holidaymakers Alan and Cindy Thompson over their claims that when Madeleine McCann was snatched from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, Hewlett and his family were staying at a campsite in the region.
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Wanted

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23 May 2009
Mirror
Stephen Moyes ; Jeremy Armstrong
Madeleine police to talk to couple who raised their suspicions about Algarve drifter: Detectives keen to interview perv: He is investigated over death of son

Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett could be at the centre of three police inquiries as he lies in a German hospital recovering from throat cancer surgery. Detectives from Leicestershire police yesterday said they wanted to question British holidaymakers Alan and Cindy Thompson over their claims that when Madeleine McCann was snatched from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, Hewlett and his family were staying at a campsite in the region.
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Paedophile to be quizzed in Maddy case

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23 May 2009
The Irish Examiner


BRITISH police were yesterday preparing to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Briton Raymond Hewlett, was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in May 2007, according to reports.
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Was it him you saw? McCanns' tecs quiz girl witness over Brit paedo

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23 May 2009
The Sun
Mike Sullivan and Antonella Lazzeri

A girl who twice saw a man loitering near Madeleine McCann's apartment has been shown a photograph of a British paedophile and asked: Is this him? Detectives working for parents Kate and Gerry believe Raymond Hewlett — who was in Portugal when Maddie disappeared — could be a major suspect. Snaps of the 64-year-old have also been shown to other witnesses in the case. Yesterday The Sun revealed how the investigators had been trailing Hewlett, now in Germany. Last night he was said to be critically ill with lung cancer in hospital in Aschen, on the Belgian border.
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He's evil enough to have snatched Maddie

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23 May 2009 
The Sun
Rhodri Phillips and Robin Perrie

THE latest major suspect in the Madeleine McCann case was branded "evil incarnate" last night — by his first known victim. Bette Balfour, just 12 when Raymond Hewlett abducted and sexually assaulted her, added: "I believe he is quite capable of taking Maddie."  Yesterday The Sun revealed convicted paedophile Hewlett had been in Portugal when Maddie was snatched — and how investigators working for her parents Kate and Gerry had tracked him to Germany.
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Paedophile urged to co-operate with Madeleine investigation

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23 May 2009
Press Association
Madeleine detective convicted of perjury


A convicted paedophile should "see sense" and co-operate with private investigators searching for Madeleine McCann, a spokesman for the child's family said today. The McCanns' investigation team wants to interview 64-year-old Raymond Hewlett in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on the little girl's disappearance.
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Wanted paedophile investigated in search for missing Madeleine

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23 May 2009
The Irish News


A convicted paedophile wanted by British police is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Briton Raymond Hewlett, was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in May 2007, according to reports.

Hewlett, who grew up in Blackpool, Lancashire, has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.

The former soldier, who also lived in Telford, Shropshire, is wanted for questioning by West Yorkshire police in connection with a case dating back more than 30 years.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry, said Hewlett was being looked at by investigators working for the couple from Rothley in Leicestershire.

"It's my understanding that if you are on the sexual offenders register you are supposed to alert the authorities to your movements," he told reporters.

"I understand that in this case Mr Hewlett's whereabouts weren't known to a number of police forces for some time.

"Now that he is being treated for an illness in Germany it's up to the individual police forces as to what they do with that information."

He said Madeleine's parents were "fully aware" of the development and added the couple's investigators had been in Portugal for the last week.

A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police confirmed they want to speak to Mr Hewlett.

"We are actively seeking him in connection with an indecent assault in 1975," she said.

The alarm was raised about Hewlett by a couple who met him while on holiday in Portugal, a newspaper said.

Alan and Cindy Thompson said Hewlett had been travelling from campsite to campsite with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck.
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Police hope to quiz paedophile linked with Madeleine probe

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23 May 2009
The Irish Examiner

British police were today hoping to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Raymond Hewlett, 64, is alleged to have been staying near the McCanns’ holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, when the little girl went missing in May 2007. UK-born Hewlett, a former soldier who previously lived in Blackpool and Telford, was jailed several times for sexually assaulting young girls. He is now reportedly being treated for throat cancer in hospital in the German city of Aachen, but is wanted for questioning by British detectives.
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McCann team pursues man

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23 May 2009
Liverpool Echo


BRITISH police were last night preparing to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

Raymond Hewlett, 64, is alleged to have been staying near the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, when the little girl went missing, in May, 2007.

UK-born Hewlett, a former soldier who previously lived in Blackpool and Telford, was jailed several times for sexually assaulting young girls.

He is now reportedly being treated for cancer in a German hospital but is wanted for questioning by British detectives.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed they were seeking him in connection with an indecent assault in 1975.

Two retired UK detectives hired by Madeleine's parents to search for their daughter hope to interview Hewlett with the help of UK police.

A source said: "A proper police force may get first crack." But the source added: "He is one of a number of possible leads that we are looking at. We are not going to give it any more weight than that."

Alan and Cindy Thompson told the Daily Mirror the sex offender was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite in the Algarve and southern Spain.

Hewlett allegedly told the couple he was approached by some "Gipsy tourists" offering to buy his daughter just before Madeleine went missing.

Hewlett told the Thompsons he was in Fuseta, 30 miles from Praia da Luz, when Madeleine vanished.

The disgraced former Portuguese police chief who previously led the Madeleine inquiry was convicted of perjury in a separate case yesterday.

Goncalo Amaral was given an 18-month suspended sentence by a court in Portugal.

The McCanns' spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said the couple thought the conviction "speaks for itself ".
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Madeleine police paedo quiz

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Daily Mirror
Stephen Moyes; Jeremy Armstrong
23 May 2009

British officers to interview couple who knew pervert:
He's probed on OWN son's death ..and a sex attack:
His former wife: I've suffered years of brutal beatings

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British police are to quiz the holiday couple who raised suspicions about paedophile Raymond Hewlett and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Senior officers from Leicestershire, where the McCanns live, will interview Alan and Cindy Thompson to find out more about 64-year-old Hewlett's activities in Portugal.

Hewlett is also being probed over a sex attack - and the death of one of his own sons. His former wife has told how he brutally beat her. And son Wayne, 40, said: "He's a monster."

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Daily Mirror
Madeleine McCann police to quiz holiday couple who raised suspicions about paedophile Raymond Hewlett
By Stephen Moyes and Jeremy Armstrong
23 May 2009

Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett could be at the centre of three police inquiries as he lies in a German hospital recovering from throat cancer surgery.

Detectives from Leicestershire police yesterday said they wanted to question British holidaymakers Alan and Cindy Thompson over their claims that when Madeleine McCann was snatched from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, Hewlett and his family were staying at a campsite in the region.

Officers from West Yorkshire yesterday said they had asked German authorities for permission to interview Hewlett over an unsolved indecent assault from 1975.

And it was revealed he is also under investigation over the death of his son David after the boy fell from the back of a van that Hewlett was driving from Portugal to Germany.

The Mirror revealed yesterday that the Thompsons were on an extended holiday in Portugal in 2006 when they befriended Hewlett, his German wife Mariana and their six children.

It was only after they returned to the UK they learned the seemingly harmless drifter had been jailed three times for attacks on girls.

They raised they alarm when they realised he and his family had been staying in a converted motor home at a camping site an hour from Praia da Luz when Madeleine vanished in May 2007.

Detectives from Leicestershire police yesterday contacted Alan and Cindy Thompson to arrange an interview with them today about their dealings with Hewlett.

Leicestershire police are the McCanns’ home force and in charge of liaising with detectives in Portugal who are still investigating Madeleine’s disappearance. Alan said yesterday: “We are very happy that the police have made contact with us. All we want to do is make sure they have everything we know about Ray Hewlett.”

A spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann has confirmed their private detectives are investigating 64-year-old Hewlett, a former trawlerman and fairground worker.

Meanwhile, officers from West Yorkshire police are waiting for the go-ahead from the German authorities so they can interview Hewlett at hospital in Aachen. A spokesman for the force said yesterday: “West Yorkshire are actively seeking him in connection with an indecent assault which occurred in 1975.”

Hewlett is already under investigation by German authorities over David’s death. The boy fell from the back of a white Ford Cargo van Hewlett was driving.

The accident happened near Seville in southern Spain as the family headed from Portugal to Germany early this year.

Hewlett later said: “I went on quite a few kilometres and didn’t know it had happened until I turned off. We had to turn around and go back to where it happened on the motorway.

“After the accident the police took the keys off me and put a steering lock on to the van.

“They need to keep it to check whether there were any mechanical problems.”

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Four of Hewlett’s young children were in the back of the van without seats or seatbelts, it is believed.

The vehicle is not thought to have been insured or taxed and did not have a valid MoT certificate.

The family later continued their trip to Germany by train. David was buried in an unmarked grave.

An investigation by German police is still going on. Hewlett has had to regularly report to the British embassy in Frankfurt in relation to the inquiry. He could be charged with causing death by negligence if police decided he was at fault.

Hewlett’s wife Mariana told the Thompsons she was distraught over the death of David. She added: “It shouldn’t have happened. It was horrible. I’m always just one hair’s breadth away from the nut house. I can’t get over the death of David.”

Ex Scots Guard Hewlett and his family spent their time moving from campsite to campsite along the Algarve coast until he was diagnosed with cancer towards the ends of 2007.

Mariana made contact with the authorities in Germany to see if they could help her. They offered a flat and flights to Germany for her and her children but did not want to include Hewlett.

So he then decided to drive the family to Germany. The couple and their children now live in a squalid flat in Aachen.

The surnames ‘Hewlett and Schmuker’ are on a post box in the dimly lit entrance to their block.

Mariana, 33, yesterday said she knew her husband had a troubled past but denied he had done anything wrong.

She said: “I knew he had problems with police in the past. But there are no problems now because it turned out he never actually did anything.”

She became furious when told of Hewlett’s criminal record and that he was wanted for questioning in connection with sex attacks going back 30 years.

She said: “You are just trying to make a story.” I don’t need any more bulls*** from anybody.”

Hewlett abducted and sexually assaulted a neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter in 1972. In 1978 he tried to rape a 14-year-old girl after holding a gun to her head. Ten years later he kidnapped and assaulted a girl of 14. He was described by a judge at one of his trials as “extremely dangerous”.

Hewlett was yesterday understood to be still recuperating from major cancer surgery at the University Hospital Aachen.

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Paedophile probed by McCanns

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23 May 2009
Weekend Argus
Vivien Horler


LONDON: Detectives working for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann are investigating a convicted paedophile in connection with her disappearance, the family’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said yesterday.

Mitchell confirmed private investigators are looking into former British soldier Raymond Hewlett, a repeat sex offender whose picture was splashed on the front page of The Daily Mirror yesterday.

The paper said Hewlett, whom it identified as a 64-year-old father of six, was being treated at an unnamed German hospital for throat cancer.

Mitchell emphasised that Hewlett was only one of several leads being investigated and that the McCanns had played no role in publicising their interest in the man.

Police in both Portugal and in the northern English city of Leicester, where the McCanns live, declined to comment on the reports.

Hewlett’s name does not appear in the Portuguese police file on the case, which was made available to reporters after Portugal’s attorney-general closed the investigation last July.

The Mirror quoted Alan and Cindy Thompson, who said they met Hewlett on holiday in Portugal three years ago. The newspaper said they became alarmed when they found out about his past and realised he had been living an hour away from Praia da Luz, where the three-year-old vanished from a hotel room two years ago.

Mitchell told The Associated Press the family would rather have kept the matter out of the public eye.

“It’s a matter for the private investigators. Ideally it would have remained a private investigation,” he said in a telephone interview. “I would stress he’s only one part of the inquiry.”
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Convicted former soldier new suspect in Madeleine case

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23 May 2009
New Zealand Herald
Chris Irvine and Lucy Cockcroft


Raymond Hewlett, a convicted British paedophile responsible for a number of sex attacks in the last 40 years, is being investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it has emerged.

Hewlett, a former soldier, is believed to have been living an hour's drive from the resort of Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when she disappeared in April 2007, reports said.

The 64-year-old has a long record of sex attacks on young girls and is wanted by police in Britain and Ireland. He has been on the run since Madeleine's disappearance.

The new information is thought to have emerged after Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, made a string of international media appearances to issue a fresh appeal for information on the second anniversary of her disappearance.

New material released included a computer-aided image of what she may look like now, aged 6, while another was a sketch of a suspect seen near the holiday complex.

Hewlett, described by detectives as cunning and a danger to children, is a former Scots Guardsman who has worked as a trawlerman and fairground operator.

He has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.

Hewlett is also wanted by some British police forces for questioning about sex attacks stretching back nearly 30 years.

It is not known if he was interviewed by Portuguese police but they have been informed he may have been involved in her disappearance.

The search for Madeleine is headed by two retired UK policemen, Dave Edgar, a former RUC and Cheshire Police officer, and Arthur Cowley, previously of Merseyside Police, who run Alpha Investigations Group and have been hired by the Find Madeleine Fund to investigate missed leads.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCann family, said: ``My understanding is he is currently receiving hospital treatment and is currently in Germany.

``Kate and Gerry are fully aware of the development and have been for a little while.

``This is one line of inquiry in an ongoing investigation led by two former police officers.''

He added: ``Three police forces have an interest in him and want to talk to him, I believe, about other matters.

``He has a background that would be of interest to any police force.''

He refused to comment on whether Hewlett was in police custody.

The alarm was raised about Hewlett by a couple who met him while on holiday in Portugal.

When Alan and Cindy Thompson met Hewlett, he was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite.

Mr Thompson told the Daily Mirror: ``Hewlett befriended us but kept quiet about his terrible past.

They recalled him mentioning a business trip to Morocco where there were several alleged sightings of Madeleine in the months after her disappearance.
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Paedophile investigated by McCann team

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23 May 2009
The Journal


BRITISH police were last night preparing to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

Raymond Hewlett, 64, is alleged to have been staying near the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal, when the girl went missing in 2007.

UK-born Hewlett, a former soldier who previously lived in Blackpool and Telford, was jailed several times for sexually assaulting young girls.

He is now reportedly being treated for throat cancer in Germany but is wanted for questioning by British detectives.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed they were seeking him in connection with an indecent assault in 1975.

"We have made contact with the German authorities. We are just waiting for clearance so we can actually go and speak to him regarding that incident," a spokeswoman said. "We cannot go into details on the incident." Two retired UK detectives hired by Madeleine's parents to search for their daughter hope to interview Hewlett with the help of British police.

A source said: "A proper police force such as West Yorkshire may get first crack. It's then a question of us liaising with the police to see what access we can get." But the source added: "He is one of a number of possible leads that we are looking at. We are not going to give it any more weight than that. We are being quite cautious on this." Questions were raised about Hewlett's time in Portugal by a couple who met him on holiday, the Daily Mirror reported.

Alan and Cindy Thompson said the sex offender was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite in the Algarve and southern Spain. Hewlett allegedly told the couple he was approached by some "Gypsy tourists" offering to buy his daughter just before Madeleine went missing.

They also recalled him mentioning a "business" trip to Morocco, where there were several alleged sightings of Madeleine following her disappearance.

Hewlett reportedly told the Thompsons he was at a market in the Portuguese town of Fuseta, 30 miles from Praia da Luz, when Madeleine vanished.

He had told the couple he had done nothing wrong and they were judging him based on what they knew of his past.

He said: "If you've chosen to believe anything I can't do anything about it anyway, so there you go. Catch 22." It is believed the Thompsons attempted to contact British police with their concerns about Hewlett some time ago but were not successful.

Leicestershire Police, which handled the British end of the Madeleine inquiry, refused to comment.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007
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Evil Incarnate

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23 May 2009
The Sun
Rhodri Phillips


The latest major suspect in the Madeleine McCann case was branded "evil incarnate" last night — by his first known victim. Bette Balfour, just 12 when Raymond Hewlett abducted and sexually assaulted her, added: "I believe he is quite capable of taking Maddie." Yesterday The Sun revealed convicted paedophile Hewlett had been in Portugal when Maddie, three, was snatched — and how investigators working for her parents Kate and Gerry had tracked him to Germany. Last night he was said to be critically ill with lung cancer in hospital in Aschen, on the Belgian border.

Bette, 49, below, said: "I don't care if he's ill. I don't care if he's dying. He deserves to be brought to justice if there are crimes he still hasn't been punished for."

Hewlett, 64, was a neighbour and friend of Bette's father in Todmorden, North Yorks. In 1972 he lured her in to his car, telling her his mother was ill, drugged her with paint thinner and assaulted her on a moor. Detectives have shown a photograph of Hewlett to a schoolgirl who twice saw a man loitering near the family's holiday apartment.
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Raymond Hewlett's youngest son disowned him

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23 May 2009
Mirror
Richard Smith
 


Son: Dad beat his kids..I detest him

Raymond Hewlett's youngest son last night branded his paedophile dad "despicable" and told how he disowned him as soon as he knew about his sick crimes.

Builder Wayne Hewlett said he and his brothers and sisters were savagely beaten by him when they were children and were even targeted by violent hate mobs disgusted at the pervert. The 40-year-old bachelor, who cut off all ties with his dad 20 years ago, added: "He is a monster. "The crimes he has committed are despicable, he is a major embarrassment as a father and I'm ashamed of the things he has done.
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Paedophile linked to Madeleine probe 'often visited holiday complex'

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23 May 2009 
Press Association

A convicted paedophile who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it was reported today. Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying around an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz when she vanished on May 3 2007. The McCanns' investigation team wants to interview the 64-year-old in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on the little girl's disappearance.
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Sex beast quizzed in search for Madeleine

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22 May 2009
Evening Express
Albert Innes


A child sex beast who lived in Aberdeen was today named as a possible suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett made his home in the North-east on two occasions after serving time in jail for a string of horrific sex attacks. He later moved to Europe and was living at a campsite an hour’s drive from the Portuguese resort where the three-year-old went missing in May 2007.
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Blackpool man is Maddie suspect

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22 May 2009
Blackpool Gazette
Joe Robinson


A former Blackpool soldier is being investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Paedophile Raymond Hewlett was reportedly living just an hour from the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz at the time Madeleine disappeared from her holiday apartment in May 2007. The former Marton serviceman – who grew up in a semi-detached house on Hawes Side Lane – has a long record of sex attacks on young girls and is wanted by police in Britain for offences dating back more than 30 years.
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Alan and Cindy Thompson: A couple in search of the most famous missing people in the world

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22 May 2009
By Nigel Moore

Alan and Cindy Thompson, the couple responsible for drawing attention toward Raymond Hewlett, would appear to have some history in tracking down the most famous missing people in the world.

In his blog, 'propaganda matrix', written on 23 February 2004, Paul Joseph Watson reports that: 'In the spring of 1999, A British couple called Alan and Cindy Thompson were driving through Pakistan, in the very area that they're now talking about as being bin Laden's location.
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Cold - case quiz for pervert linked to Maddie

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22 May 2009
Yorkshire Post
Rob Preece


Police from Yorkshire are preparing to fly to Germany to question a convicted paedophile who is being investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Former soldier Raymond Hewlett, who has been jailed for sex attacks on young girls in the Yorkshire region, is said to have been staying near the McCanns' holiday flat in Portugal when Madeleine went missing in May 2007.
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Ex-Tod man being investigated in connection with Madeleine McCann case

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22 May 2009
Todmorden News


A CONVICTED paedophile who has lived in Todmorden is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Raymond Hewlett was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in May 2007, according to reports.

Hewlett has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls and was investigated over the killing of Lesley Molseed.

In that case a DNA test ruled out Hewlett as the offender and Rochdale man Ronald Castree was jailed two years ago for Lesley's murder.

In September 1972 Hewlett abducted a 12-year-old girl and took her on to moors near his then home in Todmorden.

He incapacitated her with a rag soaked in paint thinners and she only escaped being raped after he ejaculated prematurely.

In 1978 Hewlett attacked another girl, this time putting a gun to her back but she managed to convince him visitors were arriving imminently and he let her go.

Hewlett, a former soldier, was one of seven men featured in a News of the World campaign which urged the public to be on the lookout for missing paedophiles.

He also appeared on a Crimestoppers list of Most Wanted paedophiles.

A source close to the Madeleine McCann investigation said Hewlett is wanted for questioning by police forces in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and Leicestershire, as well as by the Irish police.

The 64-year-old is reportedly being treated for throat cancer in a German hospital.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry, said Hewlett was a line of inquiry being looked at by investigators working for the Leicestershire couple.

Mr Mitchell said: "We are aware of Raymond Hewlett, and the claims that have been made about him in some newspapers."

The alarm was raised about Hewlett by a couple who met him while on holiday in Portugal, the Daily Mirror said today.

Alan and Cindy Thompson said Hewlett was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite.

Mr Thompson, 56, told the newspaper: "Hewlett befriended us but kept quiet about his terrible past.

"We were mortified and disgusted to discover the truth."

They described a conversation in which Hewlett said he was approached by some "Gipsy tourists" offering to buy his daughter just before Madeleine went missing.

Mrs Thompson, 47, said: "We didn't think too much of this at the time. Ray and his family led a desperate hand-to-mouth lifestyle and someone may have thought he'd be tempted to sell one of his six children."

They also recalled him mentioning a "business" trip to Morocco, where there were several alleged sightings of Madeleine in the months after her disappearance.

Earlier this week, the Thompsons contacted Hewlett to question him about his movements, the Mirror said.

Hewlett told the Thompsons he had done nothing wrong and they were judging him based on what they knew of his past, the paper reported.

He said: "If you've chosen to believe anything I can't do anything about it anyway, so there you go. Catch 22.

"You're basing it on someone's past, rather. That means the person's past is important. Doesn't make him guilty. You shouldn't be talking to me about it. I've done nothing wrong, nothing, nothing.

"I don't actually believe that child was actually kidnapped, let alone murdered."
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West Yorkshire paedophile probed over Madeleine disappearance

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22 May 2009
Yorkshire Evening Post


West Yorkshire Police have confirmed they too want to question a convicted paedophile being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Briton Raymond Hewlett, was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in May 2007, according to reports.

Hewlett, who grew up in Blackpool, Lancashire, has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.

The former soldier, who also lived in Telford, Shropshire, is wanted for questioning by West Yorkshire police in connection with a case dating back more than 30 years.

The Daily Mirror today published a picture of the 64-year-old who, the paper said, was being treated for throat cancer in a German hospital.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry, said Hewlett was being looked at by investigators working for the couple from Rothley in Leicestershire.

He told BBC News: "It's my understanding that if you are on the sexual offenders register you are supposed to alert the authorities to your movements.

"I understand that in this case Mr Hewlett's whereabouts weren't known to a number of police forces for some time.

"Now that he is being treated for an illness in Germany it's up to the individual police forces as to what they do with that information."

He said Madeleine's parents were "fully aware" of the development and added the couple's investigators had been in Portugal for the last week.

A spokeswoman for West Yorkshire Police confirmed they want to speak to Mr Hewlett.

She said: "We are actively seeking him in connection with an indecent assault in 1975."

The alarm was raised about Hewlett by a couple who met him while on holiday in Portugal, the newspaper said.

Alan and Cindy Thompson said Hewlett was living with his wife and six children in a converted Dodge truck travelling from campsite to campsite.

Mr Thompson, 56, told the Mirror Hewlett said he was approached by some "Gipsy tourists" offering to buy his daughter just before Madeleine went missing.

Mrs Thompson, 47, said: "We didn't think too much of this at the time. Ray and his family led a desperate hand-to-mouth lifestyle and someone may have thought he'd be tempted to sell one of his six children."

They also recalled him mentioning a "business" trip to Morocco, where there were several alleged sightings of Madeleine in the months after her disappearance.

Earlier this week, the Thompsons contacted Hewlett to question him about his movements, the Mirror said.

Asked about his Morocco trip, he said: "Yes, so? That makes me guilty then?"

"In Morocco, everything's worth something. You can get 25 euros for an old bike."

Hewlett told the Thompsons he was at a market in the Portuguese town of Fuseta, 30 miles from Praia da Luz, when Madeleine disappeared.

He said: "That place where she was abducted from, I have to have a good memory see, there was a market on that same Sunday.

"We drove there on the Saturday. We were parked there. As I drove out there I saw police going the other way. So it's all very clear for me. I know exactly where I was. I wasn't anywhere near there. Where did you get that I was there?"

Madeleine disappeared on Thursday May 3, 2007.

Hewlett said when he left the market he returned to a campsite in Tavira, where he was staying.

He said: "I do remember where I was that particular weekend. Later I was parked...a mighty long way from where that kid went missing from. If you'd gone in our truck you couldn't have got away with it, driving that about.

"You'd have stood out like a sore thumb."

In September 1972 Hewlett abducted a 12-year-old girl and took her on to moors near his home in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

He incapacitated her with a rag soaked in paint thinners and she only escaped being raped after he ejaculated prematurely.

In 1978 Hewlett attacked another girl, this time putting a gun to her back but she managed to escape.

He was also questioned over the 1975 murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed, following the release of Stefan Kiszko who was wrongly imprisoned for the crime.

Another man, Ronald Castree, was eventually convicted of the girl's murder in 2007.

Hewlett told the Thompsons he had done nothing wrong and they were judging him based on what they knew of his past, the paper reported.

He said: "If you've chosen to believe anything I can't do anything about it anyway, so there you go. Catch 22.

"You're basing it on someone's past, rather. That means the person's past is important. Doesn't make him guilty. You shouldn't be talking to me about it. I've done nothing wrong, nothing, nothing.

"I don't actually believe that child was actually kidnapped, let alone murdered."
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Paedophile probed over missing Madeleine to be quizzed

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22 May 2009
Press Association
Sam Marsden and Robert Dex
Key events in Madeleine disappearance
Madeleine detective convicted of perjury


British police were today preparing to interview a convicted paedophile in Germany who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
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Man probed by McCanns over girl's disappearance

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22 May 2009
Associated Press
Raphael G. Satter


Detectives working for the parents of missing Madeleine McCann are investigating a convicted pedophile in connection with the her disappearance, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Friday.
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New suspect in Maddie hunt

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22 May 2009
Liverpool Echo
Vicki Kellaway
Paedophile is fresh line of enquiry


A convicted paedophile is being investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Briton Raymond Hewlett was reportedly staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in May 2007.
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New lead in Maddie case

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22 May 2009
Evening Gazette


A convicted paedophile is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Briton Raymond Hewlett was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old vanished in May 2007, according to reports.
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Paedophile in Maddy case 'to be extradited

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22 May 2009
The Evening Standard
Robert Mendick


A convicted paedophile under investigation over Madeleine McCann's dis-appearance faces a deathbed extradition to the UK for a series of sex attacks. Raymond Hewlett, 64, being treated for throat cancer at a hospital in Germany, was named today as a suspect in her abduction after it emerged he was living in a motor home an hour's drive from where she vanished.
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On run in Germany, the child sex beast in Maddie probe

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22 May 2009
The Sun
Antonella Lazzeri and Simon Hughes
Rapist who lived near Mccanns' holiday town


Fugitive British paedophile Raymond Hewlett was last night sensationally named as a key suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance. Hewlett, 64, closely resembled an artist's impression of a man seen near the McCanns' holiday apartment. And he was living less than an hour away from the scene of Maddie's abduction in Praia da Luz, Portugal, two years ago.
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British paedophile was living only an hour away from Madeleine's resort

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22 May 2009
The Scotsman
Shan Ross


A British paedophile with links to Scotland is the new focus in the hunt for Madeleine McCann. Raymond Hewlett, 64, a former Scots Guardsman, was believed to be living in Tavira, an hour's drive from the Portuguese resort of Praia de Luz, where Madeleine disappeared on 3 May 2007. Hewlett has a record of sex attacks on young girls and is wanted by police in the UK and Ireland. He has been on the run since Madeleine's disappearance.
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New Maddy suspect is British paedophile

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22 May 2009
The Daily Telegraph
Chris Irvine and Lucy Cockcroft


Raymond Hewlett, a convicted British paedophile, is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it emerged last night. Hewlett, a former soldier, is believed to have been living an hour's drive from the resort of Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the toddler disappeared in May 2007, reports said.
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Madeleine suspect is paedo Brit

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22 May 2009
Scottish Daily Record
Mark McGivern
Sex beast faces police quiz


A convicted paedophile is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Brit Raymond Hewlett was staying an hour's drive from Praia da Luz in Portugal when the three-year-old went missing there in May 2007.
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Sex fiend probed over Maddie

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22 May 2009
Rochdale Observer

A convicted paedophile who was wrongly believed to be behind the murder of Lesley Molseed is now being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Raymond Hewlett, originally from Todmorden, was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in April 2007. Hewlett, who is in hospital in Germany and believed to have cancer, has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.
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Raymond Hewlett British paedophile new suspect in Madeleine McCann case

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21 May 2009
Sky News Video

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British paedophile probed over Madeleine disappearance

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21 May 2009
Press Association


A convicted paedophile is being investigated in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it emerged tonight. Briton Raymond Hewlett was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in April 2007.
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