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Paedophile knew complex where Madeleine McCann Disappeared
LONDON - 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 hope he can shed some light on the little girl's disappearance.
A former soldier who met Hewlett at a campsite in Morocco in May 2007 told The Sunday Mirror Hewlett admitted parking a van close to the McCanns' complex on several occasions.
Peter Verran (46), said, "He brought Madeleine up straight away. He said his three-year-old daughter looked like her.
"He was worried that because there had been reports that Madeleine may have been spirited away to Morocco, people might think his child was her. Then he suddenly said, 'Madeleine's not in Morocco'."
UK-born Hewlett, a former soldier who previously lived in Blackpool and Telford, is reportedly being treated for throat cancer in hospital in the German city Aachen.
He was jailed several times for sexually assaulting young girls and is now wanted for questioning by British detectives in connection with a separate indecent assault.
The McCanns hope that once officers from West Yorkshire Police have questioned Hewlett, their investigators will speak to him, despite reports he is seriously ill in intensive care.
It is understood that before the McCanns' team can speak to Hewlett, British officers will interview him in connection with an indecent assault in 1975.
The McCanns currently have two retired detectives who they hired to search for their daughter. They hope British police will help facilitate an interview with Hewlett.
Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby. Despite a massive police investigation and huge publicity worldwide she has not been found.
KATE AND GERRY McCann the parents of Madeleine McCann who disappeared from a Portuguese holiday complex in 2007.
CONVICTED paedophile 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.
SKETCH of the suspect based on information provided by a witness who saw a suspicious character nearthe holiday complex on the night that Madeleine disappeared.
Frank McCourt 'winning cancer battle'
NEW YORK - Irish writer Frank McCourt is battling cancer but is winning the fight, his family has said. The Angela's Ashes author was hospitalised recently for treatment after battling the disease in secret for the past year, sources close to him have confirmed.
Publicist Brian Belfiglio said the 78-year-old writer was being treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
His brother Malachy said U.S. reports that his brother was gravely ill were "exaggerated" and the cancer was in remission. He added that his brother was "a hearty fellow and he's survived worse than this."
McCourt is reported to have been treated in recent weeks in the world-famous Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York, which specialises in cancer care. It is understood he is now back home in Connecticut with his wife Ellen.
News of McCourt's illness emerged on the recently launched website for Irish news, IrishCentral.com which is based in New York. It is run by the FRANK MCCOURT Irish Voice publisher Niall O'Dowd, who knows the McCourt family well.
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