Secret Video of Maddie Suspect

6 March 2011
Secret Video of Maddie Suspect
News of the World (paper edition)

Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett said his wife would “go mental” if she was asked about the missing girl in a dramatic video recorded before his death.

[Photo of Hewlett -from video- wearing oxygen mask. Caption ‘Worried….Hewlett’]

Convicted paedophile Hewlett was tracked down to a German hospital by a British couple who met him on holiday in Portugal.

In a tense video, the couple confront Hewlett and tell him they know of his paedo past - and ask him if he was involved in Madeleine’s disappearance from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in May 2007. He replies: “You’re joking. How would I know about that?”

Hewlett then launches into a rambling alibi, during which he claims he was at a market with German wife Mariana Schmuecker on the day Madeleine vanished - except the market is held on Saturdays and the little girl went missing on a Thursday.

Terrified the couple are going to speak to his wife, Hewlett adds: “I mean, you going… going to repeat all this to Mariana about this, about this kid? She‘ll go mental.”


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See Anorak News "Madeleine McCann: The Disappearance Of Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonca" 



   

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Madeleine McCann, Peter Verran, Raymond Hewlett

Raymond Hewlett - Background Information

RAYMOND HEWLETT

"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."

HEWLETT - BACKGROUND

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Donegal, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rosalee Dolan, Rosalie Dolan, Scots Guard, West Yorkshire Police

IS THE NET CLOSING IN ON A MONSTER?

23 May 2009
Daily Mail
Michael Seamark

PAEDOPHILE NAMED IN SEARCH FOR MADDIE FACES QUIZ ON SECOND CASE

DETECTIVES are waiting to fly to Germany to question Raymond Hewlett, the predatory paedophile named yesterday as a possible suspect in Madeleine McCann's disappearance. West Yorkshire Police confirmed that they are 'actively seeking' the 64-year-old former soldier - who was in the Algarve when three-year-old Madeleine vanished.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Clarence Mitchell, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett, West Yorkshire Police

Violent paedophile was murder suspect

22 May 2009
Yorkshire Post
Rob Preece


THE violent child sex attacker being investigated in connection with Madeleine McCann's disappearance was the prime suspect in a shocking murder case which took 32 years to solve and saw an innocent man jailed. Raymond Hewlett, 64, was interviewed by police hunting the killer of 11-year-old schoolgirl Lesley Molseed, whose body was found on moorland near Ripponden in 1975.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

DNA clues delay in Maddie probe

Paul Fielding
21 July 2009
The Gazette

A former Blackpool soldier, linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, is unlikely to face charges over a sex attack 30 years ago.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Arthur Cowley, Cindy Thompson, Crown Prosecution Service, David Edgar, DNA, FSS, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Peter Verran, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett, West Yorkshire Police

Maddy paedo said this was only vehicle he had

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Arthur Cowley, Cindy Thompson, David Edgar, Ireland, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Peter Verran, Raymond Hewlett, Scots Guard, West Yorkshire Police

Is this the man who snatched Maddie?

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Clarence Mitchell, David Edgar, DNA, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Peter Verran, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett, Ronald Castree, Stefan Kiszko, Wayne Hewlett

I saw Maddie twice, admits paedo suspect; sensational confession to cops

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.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Clarence Mitchell, DNA, Donegal, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Max McLean, paedophiles, Peter Verran, Raymond Hewlett, Ronald Castree, West Yorkshire Police

Maddie - Detectives "clown around" in Germany

27 May 2009
Duarte Levy (also in 24horas)


The two former English policemen that were hired by the McCann couple, returned to England yesterday without having questioned the alleged “suspect” in the disappearance of Madeleine, after the German authorities classified their presence in Aachen as “a clown act”, accusing them of “trying to pressure the local judicial authorities”, using contacts among the British diplomatic representatives in Germany.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Arthur Cowley, Cindy Thompson, David Edgar, Madeleine McCann, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett

REVEALED: MADELEINE SUSPECT'S INISH HOME

Derry Journal
26 May 2009

Convicted child molester and key suspect in the Madeleine McCann case used to live in Urris, the Journal can reveal. Raymond Hewlett, aged 64, who has been jailed for a string of child sex crimes and assaults in Britain, lived in the peninsula for a period of time.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, DNA, FSS, Ireland, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett

Paedophile's phone signals checked in Maddie hunt

26 May 2009
Yorkshire Post
Rob Preece

DETECTIVES leading the search for Madeleine McCann are to use mobile phone signals to track the movements of a violent paedophile who was in Portugal when she disappeared.

Raymond Hewlett, who has been jailed for sex attacks on young girls in the Yorkshire region, is said to have been staying near the McCanns' holiday flat when Madeleine went missing in May 2007.

A couple who alerted detectives to Hewlett's whereabouts after meeting him on holiday in Portugal were interviewed for three hours at the weekend by officers from Leicestershire Police.

Alan and Cindy Thompson handed over Hewlett's number, which police hope will enable them to access phone company records dating back to the night Madeleine disappeared.

The records are likely to show where calls on Hewlett's phone were made from, providing clues about his movements.

Hewlett, 64, is undergoing treatment for throat cancer in a German hospital, but police want to question him about a crime which took place in Yorkshire more than 30 years ago.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police are awaiting clearance from German authorities to interview him over an indecent assault from 1975.

Hewlett, who was suspected of murdering schoolgirl Lesley Molseed until DNA evidence trapped her killer, formerly lived in Todmorden, where he carried out some of his most serious attacks.

He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for abducting a 12-year-old girl and taking her on to moors near Todmorden in 1972.

In 1978 Hewlett attacked a 14-year-old girl in her Todmorden home. He was convicted of attempted rape and sentenced to four years in prison, but only served 16 months.

After kidnapping another 14-year-old girl in North Wales and sexually assaulting her, he fled to Ireland. He was captured in 1989 and jailed for six years.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett, West Yorkshire Police

Cops check sex beast’s phone calls

25 May 2009
Evening Express

Police are set to check the mobile phone record of a convicted child sex beast who is being investigated over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett

Where was he? Mobile records hold key:

25 May 2009
Daily Mirror
Ryan Parry & Stephen Moyes
He'd been to Maddy resort: Cops want to trace his van.

The couple who raised the alarm about paedophile Ray Hewlett told yesterday how detectives who interviewed them asked: "Do you still have his mobile number." Alan and Cindy Thompson were questioned for three hours at the weekend by officers from Leicestershire Police's Madeleine McCann task force. Cindy, who handed over the foreign number, said yesterday: "The detective who interviewed me asked for Ray's number. He didn't say what they'll do with it, I just hope it helps in some way."

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Alvor, Cindy Thompson, DNA, FSS, Leicestershire Police, Madeleine McCann, Peter Verran, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett

Maddie suspect lived in Donegal

24 May 2009
Donegal On Sunday
Connie Duffy

Investigators want to hear from anyone in Donegal who may have encountered a convicted British paedophile who has sensationally re-emerged as a key suspect in the Madeleine McCann case. Raymond Hewlett, 64, who has been jailed for a catalogue of child sex crimes and assaults in Britain, is known to have lived in Donegal as well as Louth and Kerry and visited at least nine counties, including Fermanagh and Tyrone.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, DNA, Donegal, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett

McCanns urge paedophile to help search

24 May 2009
Independent On Sunday
Nina Lakhani

A convicted sex offender is thought to have information on events preceding Madeleine's abduction. Gerry and Kate McCann pleaded for a convicted sex offender to "see sense" and co-operate fully with investigators searching for their missing daughter. Raymond Hewlett, 64, has served several jail sentences for sexually assaulting young girls and is also wanted for questioning by British detectives for at least one unresolved sexual offence.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Clarence Mitchell, Leicestershire Police, Madeleine McCann, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett, Wayne Hewlett, West Yorkshire Police

Maddie suspect: I'll take lie test

24 May 2009
People
Russell Myers

Paedophile Hewlett will prove innocence, wife insists

MADELEINE McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett is ready to take a LIE DETECTOR test to prove his innocence in the case.

The convicted paedophile has carried out a string of vile attacks on children but denies any link to Maddie's disappearance.

But police face a race against time to establish the truth, as last night doctors were battling to keep Hewlett alive after complications following a cancer op.

The fiend, 64, was said to have suffered massive internal bleeding, with a source adding: "His condition might worsen at any time which could end his life."

As Hewlett lay critical in hospital, his German wife Mariana Schmucker, 33 - mum to their six children - challenged Maddie's parents Gerry and Kate to come to see her.

She said: "I know about my Raymond's past and it is forgotten. He is a changed man. I know he didn't take Maddie.

"He is a very sick man and has said to me he will do anything to prove he is innocent - even take a lie detector test.

"Let the parents of Madeleine come here and ask him face-to-face if he had anything to do with their child going missing.

"My husband has nothing to do with little Madeleine. He's an innocent man and he'll prove it not anyone."

Mariana shares a squalid two bedroom flat - overlooking a kindergarten - with Hewlett and their children.

Drifter

It is just a few miles from where the suspect now lies in University Hospital, in Aachen, Germany.

Again denying any link to Maddie's abduction by her husband, Mariana said: "These are lies all lies. I know my husband more than anyone in this world and I will tell you he has done nothing wrong.

"Those police should be looking for the real man who took that little girl and not Raymond, he's a sick man, a very sick man." Former soldier turned drifter Hewlett had been living near Praia de Luz in Portugal when Maddie vanished from her family's holiday apartment in May 2007.

By the time he was tracked to Aachen, near the Belgian border, this month he was already seriously ill with lung cancer.

But British police still want to interview him about a sexual assault on a child in West Yorkshire in 1975, and the murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed that same year.

Hewlett served 12 months for abducting a 12-year-old girl, knocking her out with paint stripper and raping her in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, in 1972.

In 1978, he was jailed for four years after holding a 14-year-old girl and putting a gun to her head.

Last night, in a new twist, a British couple who first raised suspicions about Hewlett over missing Maddie a year ago claimed police had not taken them seriously until now.

Alan Thompson, 56, and his wife Cindy, 47, from Peterborough, Cambs, had met Hewlett while on holiday in Portugal.

Cindy told The People: "We cannot talk in detail about the police inquiry, but let's just say we are hoping they take this seriously now.

"We are utterly confused about the delay. It's a worry for us and it must be worse for the McCanns.

Alan said: "I only hope it is not too late." The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell, said the family's own investigators also wanted to speak to Hewlett, and to the Thompsons.

He said: "Mr Hewlett has denied any involvement in Madeleine's abduction.

"Our investigators hope he will see sense and co-operate by giving them whatever information needed so they can eliminate him from the investigation.

"It's clear the man is ill and it is clear he has information that our investigators need."

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We Say:

THERE have been too many mistakes in the hunt for Madeleine McCann to allow there to be more.

Holiday couple Alan and Cindy Thompson raised concerns about paedophile Raymond Hewlett more than a year ago and they were ignored.

Now the wife of the cancer-stricken child molester tells The People he is prepared to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence.

Police should now give him the test. Before it is too late.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Clarence Mitchell, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett

I know Madeleine resort well

24 May 2009
The Sunday Mirror
Simon Wright
Paedo's shock confession to holiday couple

The British paedophile linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has sensationally confessed to being outside her holiday apartment "many times". Convicted pervert Raymond Hewlett, 64, has admitted knowing the resort where the McCanns holidayed "very well" and said he had parked a van close to their complex on several occasions. And last night a man who shared a Morocco campsite with Hewlett and his family for three months described how the drifter was obsessed with the missing youngster.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, DNA, FSS, Madeleine McCann, Peter Verran, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett

Maddie probe man’s city link

23 May 2009
The Press and Journal
Shona Gossip

A man who was named yesterday as a possible suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann had previously lived in Aberdeen, it has emerged. Raymond Hewlett fled the Moray area in 1997 after it was revealed he was a convicted paedophile.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, Madeleine McCann, Raymond Hewlett

Cunning predator and 30 years of depravity

23 May 2009
Daily Mail
Michael Seamark

Compile a profile of Madeleine McCann's possible abductor and there are few more suitable suspects than Raymond Hewlett. He's a convicted predatory paedophile - a man detectives describe as cunning and a danger to children - who flits from country to country.Given that he speaks English and, crucially, was within striking distance of Praia da Luz when three-year- old Madeleine went missing, Hewlitt ticks a a great many boxes.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, DNA, Donegal, FSS, Ireland, Lesley Molseed, Madeleine McCann, paedophiles, Raymond Hewlett, Rochdale, Ronald Castree, Scots Guard, Stefan Kiszko, West Yorkshire Police

Madeleine McCann police to quiz holiday couple who raised suspicions about paedophile Raymond Hewlett

23 May 2009
Daily Mirror
Stephen Moyes and Jeremy Armstrong

Convicted paedophile Raymond Hewlett could be at the centre of three police inquiries as he lies in a German hospital recovering from throat cancer surgery.

Detectives from Leicestershire police yesterday said they wanted to question British holidaymakers Alan and Cindy Thompson over their claims that when Madeleine McCann was snatched from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, Hewlett and his family were staying at a campsite in the region.

Continue Reading... Labels: Alan Thompson, Cindy Thompson, DNA, FSS, Leicestershire Police, Madeleine McCann, Polícia Judiciária, Raymond Hewlett, West Yorkshire Police