TWO retired detectives searching for Madeleine McCann hope to speak to a convicted paedophile linked to the investigation within the next 24 hours “at the latest”, the McCann family spokesman said yesterday.
Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying around an hour’s drive from the McCanns’ holiday flat in Praia da Luz, in Portugal, when the little girl vanished on May 3, 2007.
Clarence Mitchell, the spokesman for Madeleine’s parents Gerry McCann and Liverpool-born Kate, said the investigators were still waiting for a “definitive response” from Hewlett as to whether he would speak to them and were spending the night in Germany – where the 64-year-old is in hospital – “with a view to speaking to him tomorrow morning at the latest”.
