‘Maddie paedophile’ under investigation for four months

Daily Mail Headline: 'Detectives have been investigating the predatory paedophile who was living in Portugal near to where Madeleine McCann disappeared for the past four months. Former police officers hired by the McCann family learned in February that Raymond Hewlett, 64, had been living in the Algarve and have been probing his movements and alibis. But they never got the chance to speak to Hewlett, a former soldier, because he had already moved to Germany where he is being treated for throat cancer. ‘Some of his alibis didn’t quite stand up,’ said a source close to the family. But despite concerns about his movements on the night Madeleine disappeared in May 2007, and sinister comments he allegedly made about her, he is not thought to be a strong suspect. Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCanns, said he was a ‘person of interest’ but stressed that Hewlett was ‘one lead among a number’.