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Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann 'planned to spy on the family of a dead paedophile suspect'

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX NEWS DEC 2016
Original Source: Mail Sunday 11 December 2016
By Abe Hawken For Mailonline PUBLISHED: 13:40, 11 December 2016 | UPDATED: 16:33, 11 December 2016
 
 
  • Madeleine McCann went missing nine years ago in Portugal when she was three

  • Paedophile Raymond Hewlett lived an hour away from where she disappeared

  • Detectives searching for the youngster wanted to spy on Hewlett's family

 
Raymond Hewlett (pictured) died of cancer aged 64 in 2010 and lived an hour away from where Madeleine disappeared in Portugal
 

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.

   

Madeleine McCann (left) went missing nine years ago and her parents (right) believe she is still alive

   

Investigators were trying to establish if there was a link between the gang and Hewlett's family.

A source told The Sun on Sunday: 'The surveillance was to gather information on Hewlett's family and their connections.

'They were not suspected - it was more of a fishing expedition to see who they associated with and if any of the ring were in contact.'

 

Hewlett raped a 12-year-old girl he had just lured to his car and was jailed for 12 months in 1972.

Six years later he attempted to rape another underage girl and was jailed for four years - only to be locked up for a further six years for abducting a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint.

It comes as officers probing the disappearance were given extra money to try and find a new lead in the investigation.

 

British police and their Portuguese counterparts investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in the Algarve

 

Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann have kept believing that their daughter is still alive.

A Met Police spokesman would not discuss any lines of inquiry as the investigation is ongoing.

 

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