Madeleine McCann: New drifter clue
DETECTIVES conducting a review of the Madeleine McCann case are expected to interview a couple who raised suspicions about drifter Raymond Hewlett.
Officers are said to be investigating the whereabouts of Hewlett in Portugal in May 2007.
Ex-soldier Hewlett bears a striking resemblance to a man seen acting suspiciously around the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz before the kidnap and was thought to be staying 30 miles away.
He later told holidaymakers Alan and Cindy Thompson, from Nottingham, that gypsies had approached him, wanting to buy one of his six children.
We are not prepared to discuss any particular lines of inquiry
One theory was that Hewlett, 64, who had convictions for sex offences against young girls, snatched Madeleine to sell her to gypsies who were apparently trafficking children to Morocco.
Hewlett, who died last year, refused to be interviewed by the McCanns’ private investigator.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We are not prepared to discuss any particular lines of inquiry.”