Madeleine McCann: Paedophile ‘knew’ family's holiday flat

May 25 2009 Liverpool Daily Post

A CONVICTED paedophile being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance said he was familiar with the layout of the Portuguese holiday complex where she went missing, it was reported last night.

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 next few days .

Former soldier Peter Verran, 46, who met Hewlett at a campsite in Morocco, in May, 2007, has said he admitted parking a van close to the McCanns’ complex on several occasions.

UK-born Hewlett, a former soldier, is reportedly being treated for throat cancer in hospital in the German city of Aachen.