Forensic checks on Maddie perv's van

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27 June 2009
The Sun
Simon Hughes and Antonella Lazzeri

A van used by Maddie McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett will be "ripped apart" in a hunt for clues. Private detectives believe forensic checks could provide crucial evidence about the toddler's disappearance. The battered blue Dodge has been seized by cops in Germany, where paedo Hewlett, 64, is being treated for cancer. A source close to the probe added: "It will be ripped apart to look for a trace of Maddie."
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Maddie cop in riddle of bank £100k

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21 June 2009
Matthew Drake
The News of the World

One of the first Portuguese cops at the scene the night Madeleine McCann vanished is under investigation after £100,000 appeared in his bank account days after she went missing. He has been suspended while senior detectives probe his finances. Kate and Gerry McCann are aware of the new turn of events. Suspicions were raised after a corruption inquiry uncovered 12 large cash amounts being paid into two accounts under the cop's name. The payments began shortly after Madeleine disappeared from Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007. The cop claims his name was used to open accounts without his knowledge. The corruption probe began into alleged criminal and drugs offences by Algarve police. Kate McCann last night attacked convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett for refusing to talk to investigators because they were unwilling to pay. He denies any connection with Madeleine.
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Maddie suspect lied to cops

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21 June 2009
Weekend Argus
Judy Gorman


POLICE investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are racing against time to probe the lies told by convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett. Hewlett, 64, who is terminally ill with throat cancer, lied about significant aspects of the case, including whether he had seen the three-year-old before she went missing from the Praia da Luz holiday resort in Portugal in May 2007. He served three jail terms in the UK for sex crimes involving children before he took up a nomadic existence criss-crossing Europe with his wife and seven children.
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Paedophile told lies about Maddie

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21 June 2009
Sunday Tribune
Vivian Attwood


POLICE investigating the disappearance of missing Madeleine McCann are involved in a race against time to probe the lies told by convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett. It emerged this week that Hewlett, 64, who is terminally ill with throat cancer, had lied to police on significant aspects of the case, including whether he had seen the three-year-old prior to her disappearance from the Praia da Luz holiday resort in Portugal in May 2007.
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No one can give him an alibi

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21 June 2009
Maddie suspect's wife: no one can give him an alibi; Female friend 'can't remember where he was'.
Sunday Mirror
Simon Wright


THE wife of Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett yesterday admitted that NO ONE can give him an alibi. German-born Mariana, 33, confessed that a female friend Hewlett insisted could vouch for him on the day Madeleine vanished cannot remember where he was. Convicted paedophile Hewlett, 64, won't name the woman.
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Maddie suspect lied to police

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21 June 2009
Sunday Independent
Vivian Attwood


POLICE investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are in a race against time to probe the lies told by convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett. It emerged this week that Hewlett, 64, who is terminally ill with throat cancer, had lied to police on significant aspects of the case, including whether he had seen the three-year-old before her disappearance from the Praia da Luz holiday resort in Portugal in May 2007. Hewlett served three jail terms in the UK for sex crimes involving children before he took up a nomadic existence criss-crossing Europe with his wife and children. He has been on the run since his release from jail after serving six years for a sex attack on a 12-year-old girl in 1988. It has been established that he was in the vicinity of Praia de Luz when Maddie vanished.
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MADDY MAN'S LIE

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19 June 2009
Mirror

Stephen Moyes
Paedo's story falling apart


Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett is today sensationally back in the frame after being caught lying. The paedophile insisted he drove only a distinctive blue truck at the time the youngster vanished. But former pal Peter Verran, 46, says Hewlett, 64, had a white Mercedes van - similar to one seen near the McCanns' apartment. A source close to the investigation said: "This could be very significant."
(Blogger Note: Source for information Peter Verran. The blue van was the only vehicle Hewlett owned at the time Madeleine disappeared, and it was home to himself, 6 children and his wife.)
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Madeleine sight denial

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19 June 2009
Loughborough Echo


A convicted British paedophile has insisted he has only seen missing Rothley girl Madeleine McCann on posters and television. Suspect Raymond Hewlett, believed to have been in the area when Madeleine went missing, said: "I'd take a lie-detector test. I'll take any test you like. The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life."
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Maddy paedo said this was only vehicle he had

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Maddy paedo said this was only vehicle he had;
But really he was driving a van similar to this.
19 June 2009
Daily Mirror
Stephen Moyes


PERVERT Raymond Hewlett's lies were unravelling last night as he faced renewed questioning over missing Madeleine McCann. The convicted paedophile rekindled suspicion after it was revealed he tried to mislead detectives over the vehicle he was driving at the time the youngster vanished.
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Maddie man issues denial

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15 June 2009
Daily Post


A convicted British paedophile has insisted he had never seen missing Madeleine McCann other than in posters and on television. Raymond Hewlett, whom detectives working for the McCann family have tried and failed to interview, told a Sunday newspaper:
"I'd take a lie-detector test. The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life."
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Hewlett: I have never even met Maddie

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15 June 2009
Metro


A convicted British paedophile has insisted he has never seen Madeleine McCann in person and had nothing to do with her disappearance. Raymond Hewlett, who admits being in Portugal when Maddie went missing in May 2007, said he had only ever seen her in publicity photographs. 'I'd take a lie detector test, I'll take any test you like,' he said. 'The only time I've seen her is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once - but I've never seen her in real life.'
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I only saw Maddie on TV says pervert

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15 June 2009
Belfast Telegraph
Tom Moynihan


A convicted British paedophile has insisted he has never seen missing Madeleine McCann other than in posters and on television. Raymond Hewlett, whom detectives working for the McCann family have tried and failed to interview, said: “I’d take a lie detector test. “I’ll take any test you like. The only time I’ve seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I’ve never seen her in real life.”
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‘I didn’t kill the McCann girl ... it’s the truth’

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15 June 2009
Evening Express
Albert Innes


A sex beast who lived in the North-east has denied any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Raymond Hewlett, 64, was said to have been living in the Algarve in Portugal when Madeleine, 3, went missing from her holiday apartment two years ago. The Evening Express revealed that Hewlett lived in Aberdeen and Moray in the late 1990s after he had been jailed for a string of sex attacks.
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Pervert: I didn't kill Maddie

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15 June 2009
Yorkshire Evening Post


A convicted paedophile with West Yorkshire links has denied any involvement in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Raymond Hewlett, who is originally from Todmorden, was jailed for a number of sex attacks on children in the 1970s in Yorkshire and Wales. He has recently been named in connection with the Madeleine case, and was interviewed earlier this month by the head of West Yorkshire's CID in connection with another unsolved abduction and assault in 1975.
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McCann detectives criticise pervert's lawyer

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15 June 2009
Leicester Mercury


Detectives hunting for missing Madeleine McCann have criticised a lawyer acting for a convicted paedophile they want to question. Pervert Raymond Hewlett, who is not a suspect but has been jailed three times for assaulting young girls, spoke instead to the Sunday Mirror. He said: "I'd take a lie-detector test. I'll take any test you like. The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life." He also claimed to have an alibi for the day Madeleine vanished - but refused to say what it was.
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I didn't kill her says paedophile

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15 June 2009
Daily Express
Cyril Dixon

CONVICTED paedophile Raymond Hewlett broke his silence over missing Madeleine McCann yesterday, claiming: "I've never seen her in real life." The 64-year-old Briton, who was living in Portugal's Algarve when the youngster disappeared, had previously refused to talk about the case. But Hewlett, a former soldier who has served jail terms for sexually assaulting young girls, vowed to prove his innocence. "I'd take a lie-detector test. I'll take any test you like, " he said. "The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life."
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I've never seen Maddie, says paedophile

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14 June 2009
Sunday Mercury

A convicted Midland paedophile last night insisted he had never seen missing Madeleine McCann other than in posters and on TV. Raymond Hewlett, 64, has refused to be questioned by private detectives working for the Leicestershire parents of the tragic youngster. But the sex attacker, previously from Telford but now living in Germany, said: ''The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life."
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Madeleine McCann suspect: I didn't kill her

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14 June 2009
Madeleine McCann suspect: I didn't kill her
Liverpool Click
John Harkin

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has today denied he was involved in her disappearance.

Raymond Hewlett, who has been in hiding ever since he was named in connection with the case, admits he was in the Algarve at the time Madeleine was snatched.

And five weeks after she disappeared, he left Portugal for Morocco for a two-month-long "business trip".

Hewlett is also REFUSING to give an alibi for the night Madeleine,three, vanished.

Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, he said "I have an alibi but why should I share it?" he says, struggling for air with each syllable.

"There is a person who can say where I was that day, but why should I bring them into this? I've done nothing wrong.

"Why should I have to prove it?

"My life's been made a misery for something I know nothing about and a crime I have not committed.

"I'd take a lie-detector test.

"I'll take any test you like. The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters.

"And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life. Yes I've been to Praia da Luz, but not since 2002."

But those claims contradict what former Scots Guard Mr Verran, 46, says Hewlett told him - that he was in and around Praia da Luz at the time Madeleine disappeared in May 2007.

The McCanns private detectives first became aware of father-of-six Hewlett in February this year when his name was given to them during local door-to-door inquiries.

Portuguese detectives told UK officers they were unaware of his existence until the McCann team uncovered his name.

But bizarrely, Hewlett tells the Sunday Mirror he was visited twice by Portuguese police over the Maddie case and gave detectives a DNA swab and fingerprints, although he was never arrested or quizzed.

The McCanns' investigators are unsure whether to believe him or the detectives in Portugal.

Hewlett says that Portuguese police, acting on unknown information, swooped on his truck while he had throat cancer treatment across the border in Spain in August 2008.

He says:"They checked that all the children living with us were ours.

"Our youngest girl looks a bit like her. But they saw everything was OK and they left.

"The police came again in August last year and told Mariana it was about the McCann girl.

They asked for me and Mariana told them I was in hospital. They came to see me and asked permission to take DNA and fingerprints. I was very sick and barely able to speak to them. They asked where we parked in the Algarve in the first half of 2007.

"I told them, "You know where we've been because you know us round there.' "I knew why they were asking, because I'd seen the TV and newspapers.

"I was miles from the UK but it didn't make any difference. I'd tried hard to build a new life. But the reality for me is that my past convictions will never go away.

I have to put up with it because it's always going to be this way.

"I gave them their DNA and fingerprints. I knew they were just doing their job but I was angry. I had enough to cope with. I had cancer and no money."

Hewlett says he was 60 miles away - in Vila Real de Santo Antonio - when Maddie was taken.

Crucially, he says he cannot specifically remember being there that day.

"May 3 was a Thursday and I was always in Vila Real Santo Antonio on Thursdays."

"My routine never altered. That's 100km from Praia da Luz.

"If you asked people there if we were there on that day, I don't know what they'd say.

"Maybe they can't remember.

"If you ask them if we were normally there, they'd say yes. If it wasn't for the fact that we were living the way we were, I wouldn't be able to say so clearly that that was where I was.

He also claims that a female friend who shot a home video of him and his family on May 5 - two days after Maddie vanished - could vouch for his whereabouts on May 3.

His youngest daughter Yanina bears a striking resemblance to missing Maddie.

He says: "The friend who made the video would remember where I was two days earlier. She could tell anyone where I was. But I haven't asked her and I don't intend to.

"Why should I ask her? I don't think I should involve anybody.

"Why should I keep dragging people in to this?

"I don't like being in it, so why should I keep putting people's names forward so that they get bothered with it too?

"I could ask her, but if she says no, then sorry, the answer is no. Then people will just have to carry on speculating."

Today as he wastes away on the fourth floor of a tower block, Hewlett is close to death.

Doctors discharged him from hospital, telling him there is nothing more they can do for him, and his weight has plummeted to just 45kg.

Instead of expressing sympathy for Kate and Gerry McCann, he insists people should feel sorry for him.

"I've been through hell and now I have got another hell which I don't deserve."

Shaking with pain, he repeats: "I didn't kill the McCann girl."

   
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But I didn't kill Maddie

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14 June 2009
Madeleine: Key suspect talks for first time.
Sunday Mirror
Simon Wright


YES I'm a convicted paedophile YES I lived near Praia Da Luz YES I look like police drawing YES I did flee area to Morocco

BROKEN, frail, with only weeks to live, Raymond Hewlett is the man the McCanns fear could take the secrets of their daughter's disappearance to the grave. The convicted child rapist - who has been catapulted into the frame over the hunt for Madeleine - sits hunched up in a squalid German flat, gasping for breath as he finally breaks his silence.
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Maddy team's bid to quiz paedophile fails

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11 June 2009
Belfast Telegraph
Sam Marsden


Final attempts by private detectives searching for Madeleine McCann to interview a convicted British paedophile about her disappearance have failed. Retired police officers Dave Edgar, who served in Northern Ireland, and Arthur Cowley flew to Germany on Tuesday hoping to speak to Raymond Hewlett, who is said to have been staying an hour's drive from the McCann's Portuguese holiday flat when the little girl vanished. But negotiations between the private investigators and Hewlett's German lawyer broke down yesterday.
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Maddie search inquiry setback

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11 June 2009
Daily Post


Final attempts by private detectives searching for Madeleine McCann to interview a convicted British paedophile about her disappearance failed last night. Retired UK policemen Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley flew to Germany yesterday hoping to speak to Raymond Hewlett, who is said to have been staying an hour's drive from the McCanns' Portuguese holiday flat when the little girl vanished. But negotiations between the private investigators and Hewlett's German lawyer broke down.

Mr Edgar, who has been employed by Madeleine's parents, Liverpool-born Kate and Gerry McCann to look for their daughter, said he was "very disappointed" with the lawyer's behaviour. He went on: "I have been attempting to speak with Raymond Hewlett to eliminate him from our investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. "He is not a suspect but I was keen to interview him."
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Interview fails

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11 June 2009
Leicester Mercury


Final attempts by private detectives searching for Madeleine McCann to interview a convicted British paedophile about her disappearance have failed. Retired UK policemen Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley flew to Germany hoping to speak to Raymond Hewlett, who is said to have been near the Rothley family's Portuguese holiday flat when the little girl vanished. But negotiations with Hewlett's German lawyer over access have broken down.
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Ex-RUC man in Maddie setback

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11 June 2009
Belfast News Letter


A former RUC detective who is leading the hunt for Madeline McCann failed yesterday in his final attempt to interview a convicted British paedophile about her disappearance. Dave Edgar and his colleague Arthur Cowley flew to Germany to speak to Raymond Hewlett who is said to have been staying an hour's drive from the McCann's Portuguese holiday flat when the little girl vanished. But negotiations between the private investigators and Hewlett's German lawyer broke down.
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DETECTIVES FAIL TO QUIZ PAEDOPHILE

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11 June 2009
Liverpool Echo


FINAL attempts to question a convicted British paedophile about missing Madeleine McCann have failed. Retired UK policemen Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley flew to Germany this week hoping to speak to Raymond Hewlett. He was reportedly staying an hour's drive from the McCann's Portuguese holiday flat. But negotiations between the private investigators and Hewlett's German lawyer broke down yesterday. Mr Edgar, employed by Madeleine's mum and dad Kate and Gerry, said he was "very disappointed" with the lawyer's behaviour...
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Is this the man who snatched Maddie?

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7 June 2009
Sunday Independent
Andrew Walker


This 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 protests his innocence, but he has a horrifying past. David Jones reports.
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Crunch-hit tycoon scales down cash aid for McCanns

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7 June 2009
The Mail on Sunday
Daniel Boffey


The multi-millionaire tycoon backing Kate and Gerry McCann in their search for their daughter has cut back his financial support after losing an estimated £50 million from his fortune. Brian Kennedy, who pledged to support the McCanns until Madeleine was found, has stopped paying for the couple's media campaign after the credit crunch hit his business interests. The Madeleine Fund - which is down to £500,000 and expected to be empty by the end of the year - is now paying for the media relations work of former BBC reporter Clarence Mitchell, although at a reduced rate.
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I saw Maddie twice, admits paedophile

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June 06 2009
Herald
Conor Feehan


Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett has told detectives that he saw missing Madeleine McCann twice before she disappeared.Hewlett (64) had previously denied being near the resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal, from where Madeleine was snatched. It has been reported that Hewlett told detectives he was so close to the little girl, he was able to see the distinctive marking in her right eye.
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I saw Madeleine twice on holiday says paedophile

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6 June 2009
The Daily Express
Martyn Brown and Paul Jeeves


Paedophile Raymond Hewlett has confessed that he saw Madeleine McCann twice weeks before she disappeared, it was claimed last night. He said: "It's obvious why they're interested in me. But they can all think what they like. I didn't kill the McCann girl. It's the truth and it's never going to change. "There is a person who can say where I was that day, but why should I bring them into this? I've done nothing wrong."
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I saw Maddie twice, admits paedo suspect; sensational confession to cops

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6 June 2009
The Sun
Antonella Lazzeri

[ NOTE:  This information appears come solely from McCann spokesman CLARENCE MITCHELL. Can it be assumed that when the information is attributed to "a SOURCE" it is actually CLARENCE MITCHELL speaking "OFF THE RECORD"? ]

Child-sex fiend Raymond Hewlett has sensationally admitted he TWICE saw Madeleine McCann before she vanished. Hewlett, 64, claimed he was at the holiday resort where Maddie was kidnapped — and got so close to her that he could see the distinctive flaw in her right eye.

[ NOTE:  Raymond Hewlett did NOT confess to having been in Praia da Luz or to seeing Madeleine in person. He said he'd seen her image on posters etc. and that he had not been in Praia da Luz since he first arrived in Portugal with his wife and children in 2002 - 5 years prior to Madeleine's disappearance. ]

The pervert — who has a string of convictions for sexually assaulting young girls — is said to have made his confession to police who questioned him about a 1975 attack on an eight-year-old.  

[ NOTE: Max McLean, investigator in the Lesley Molseed murder was one of those officers. ]

That is a dramatic U-turn after Hewlett previously claimed he had never been near the Ocean Club holiday complex in Praia da Luz, Portugal — where Maddie disappeared days before her fourth birthday in May 2007.

Two senior officers from West Yorkshire Police travelled to Germany, where Hewlett is in hospital being treated for throat cancer. A SOURCE close to the investigation said Hewlett told the cops he had been to the Ocean Club and seen Maddie.

The SOURCE added:

    "He said he had seen her at least two times and had wandered around the complex several times. "He said he had been so close to Maddie he was able to see the distinctive mark in her right eye. "He didn't say why he had previously denied ever being in Praia da Luz. It's obviously a disturbing development."

Last night CLARENCE MITCHELL, official spokesman for Maddie's parents Gerry and Kate, said it was vital Hewlett now spoke to private investigators employed by the family to find Maddie.

He [CLARENCE MITCHELL] said:

    "If Mr Hewlett has any credible information about Madeleine it is absolutely imperative that he should speak to the investigators as a priority.  Mr Hewlett and his representatives must do the right thing and allow the private investigators to do their work."

Hewlett, originally from Todmorden, England, refused to see the McCanns' investigators when they flew to Germany two weeks ago. He now says he will talk to them — if he is paid. 

[ NOTE: No credible source has been found to support this allegation. ]

But Mr [CLARENCE] MITCHELL said:

    "No payment will be made for any such interview."

Hewlett has also employed a lawyer to try to sell his story to newspapers for thousands of pounds. 

[ NOTE: No credible source has been found to support this allegation and the alleged lawyer has never been named. ]

The SOURCE said:

    "There are fears he's trying to cash in on Maddie, and it may be that he has made these claims to get more money. Whatever his motives, he needs to be seen by the investigators because he may have vital information."

Hewlett emerged as a suspect in Maddie's abduction after it was revealed he was living at a campsite nearby in May 2007. British tourists who spoke to him said he was "obsessed" with the case.  

[ NOTE: BRITISH TOURISTS: PETER VERRAN, ALAN THOMPSON AND CINDY THOMPSON ]

Police wanting to quiz Hewlett over the 1975 assault had been unable to trace him as he travelled around Europe and Morocco after being released from prison. His lawyer in Germany says he only has weeks to live.

Hewlett has now provided cops with a DNA sample which will be compared to evidence from 1975.

[ NOTE: Hewlett was eliminated from the Molseed investigation based on the claim by the police that his DNA did not match the DNA found on Lesley Molseed's clothing. They were, therefore, already in possession of Hewlett's DNA. ]

Hewlett has viewed Ireland as a safe haven for years and has taken refuge here many times. He fled here after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the 1980s but was brought back to Britain to face trial. After he was released he returned in 1993, living in a commune in County Donegal. But the sicko was eventually asked to leave by worried parents.


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I saw Maddie twice claims dying child molester

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6 June 2009
Daily Mail


Paedophile Raymond Hewlett has allegedly said he saw Madeleine McCann twice before she vanished. The Briton, 62, has previously insisted he was miles from Praia da Luz in the Portuguese Algarve when the three-year-old went missing in May 2007. But yesterday he reportedly implied he had been close enough to see Maddie's distinctive flaw in her right eye.
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Yorks paedophile quizzed over 1975 sex attack

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5 June 2009
Yorkshire Evening Post
Bruce Smith

THE head of West Yorkshire's CID has interviewed a Yorkshire paedophile linked to the Madeleine McCann inquiry about an unsolved 1975 sex attack. Det Chief Supt Max McLean, travelled with Det Chief Insp Mark Ridley, to Germany to speak to cancer stricken Raymond Hewlett.
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Paedophile Raymond Hewlett demands thousands to answer Maddie questions

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4th June 2009
Daily Mail


Paedophile Raymond Hewlett has issued a brazen demand to be paid thousands of pounds to answer questions about the night Madeleine McCann went missing. The child molester refused to speak to detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann unless they gave him a vast slice of the Madeleine Fund. Hewlett, 62, who has a lifelong history of sexually abusing little girls, was in the Algarve when the three-year-old was snatched from her bed. He is now in hospital in Germany recovering from throat cancer surgery, and has so far rebuffed efforts by the McCanns' investigators to interview him.
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Paedophile who lived in Carlingford will speak to Maddie detectives

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3 June 2009
Dundalk Democrat
Tamara O'Connell


A PAEDOPHILE who lived in Carlingford has agreed to speak to detectives investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann. Serial sex offender, Raymond Hewlett has said he will answer the questions of two British ex-policemen employed by the little girl's family. The father-of-eight, who has convictions for kidnapping and raping or molesting four young girls in England, has lived on and off in Ireland for the past two decades.
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Detectives to meet paedophile

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1 June 2009
Leicester Mercury

Private detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann hope to meet with convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett this week. Hewlett has said he was prepared to meet with them.
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Man wanted for Madeleine McCann disappearance linked to Prestwich indecent assault

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1 June 2009
Bury Times

A CONVICTED paedophile, wanted in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is also being linked to the indecent assault of a young girl in Prestwich nearly 35 years ago.

West Yorkshire Police have confirmed they want to speak with Raymond Hewlett about an incident in the town in 1975.

The 64-year-old, who is currently in hospital in Germany, has been jailed several times for sexual offences against young girls.

Retired police investigating Madeleine’s disappearance have also said they wish to speak to Hewlett, who was staying near Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the three-year-old went missing in April 2007.

Hewlett has denied having any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance but has said he will speak to the McCanns' private detectives.

The former soldier, who previously lived in Blackpool and Telford, is reportedly being treated for throat cancer in Aachen, Germany.

He was jailed several times in the UK for sexually assaulting young girls, including an attack in 1978 where he put a gun to his victim's back.

In 1988 he also kidnapped and indecently assaulted a 14-year-old girl in Mold, North Wales.

He was questioned over the 1975 murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed but another man was eventually convicted of the crime in 2007.

A spokesman for the McCann family said investigators were pleased Hewlett had agreed to speak to them.

Clarence Mitchell added: “An interview with him will be arranged and will take place in due course.

"Mr Hewlett has again denied any involvement in Madeleine's abduction, and if it helps to eliminate him from the private investigation then he has done the right thing by indicating that he will speak to the investigators."

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “We wish to speak to Mr Hewlett regarding the indecent assault of a young girl in the Greater Manchester area in 1975.”

Greater Manchester Police confirmed the incident took place in Prestwich.
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