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Raymond Hewlett (pictured)
died of cancer aged 64 in
2010 and lived an hour away
from where Madeleine
disappeared in Portugal |
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Detectives desperately searching for
missing Madeleine McCann wanted to spy
on the family of a dead paedophile
suspect, it was revealed today.
Raymond Hewlett died of cancer aged 64
in 2010 and lived an hour away from
where Madeleine disappeared in Portugal
nine years ago, aged three.
He was jailed three times in the UK for
his vile crimes against young girls in
the 1970s and 1980s.
And officers working for Scotland Yard
planned to monitor Hewlett's ex-wife and
children, according to Nick Pisa at the
Sun on Sunday.
Hewlett denied involvement in
Madeleine's disappearance but wrote a
letter to his son Wayne before he died,
saying the youngster was 'stolen to
order' by a gang based in Belgium.
His son Wayne, a builder, told the
newspaper that he felt he was being
watched in 2015 at home in Telford,
Shropshire.
He said: 'My partner and I thought
someone might be watching the house. We
would notice a car with somebody in it
parked so they could see in.'
He added that it would have been the
'biggest waste of money' if it was
linked with Madeleine as he told
detectives 'all he knew' when he was
asked a few years ago.
Hewlett's ex-wife Mariana lives in
Germany, while two of his six children
reside in Portugal and there is no
suggestion that any of Hewlett's family
members were involved in the
disappearance. |
