UK paedophile probed over Madeleine

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And what exactly does that achieve?

Do you think that someone should track him down in the hospital where he is being treated for cancer and do something about him?

As I said the debate over whether paedophiles should serve longer sentences or should be named in the area they live in is a different debate. But at the moment naming and shaming is not something that is accepted practice, and living near to where Madeleine mccann disappeared from does not make him an exception.

I'm guessing this is OTW...it'll probably be deleted sharpish as there's supposed to be just the one thread (if anyone can find it)

One could suspect that the McCanns will do anything in order to divert attnetion from the speculation re their own possible involvement,

and also that they would be desperate to look down any avenue however distant the likelihood of it being relevant, in order to find their small child.

This proves nothing, how I wish there were some kind of concrete lead.

What does it achieve???

It may achieve the safety of another child suffering the same as those other poor children.

If more had been known about him the first time, or he had been kept locked up then others may have suffered.

The people who met him on their holiday in Portugal were appalled when they realised his past.

The parents of the other children who were attacked after the first would have welcomed the opportunity of knowing what this man was about.

I could go on and on about what it would achieve.

And don't give me the vigilante bollocks, that man would never suffer as badly as those children.

I do believe that we are right not to name and shame those such as Robert Murrat who had bugger all to do with the case and no previous history, but we are talking about a serial paedophile.

Bless him.

wtf? Mr. & Mrs. McCann raised millions of pounds and spent a large amount of it swanning off around the world, appearing on Oprah, etc. That's a fact. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/4382006/Madeleine-McCann-fund-raised-2-million-i n-first-10-months.html

And randomly accusing people for no particular reason (such as Robert Murat, who unlike the McCanns did NOT leave his kids in an unlocked apartment while out drinking) is shameful. This whole thread should be deleted, not my post.

Agree with Wannabe, and shoving this all over the papers has everything to do with selling papers and nothing to do with finding Madelaine.
Aren't those amazingly pathetically short sentences for some really nasty crimes though? A year for a rape of a 12 year old, FFS!

erm...someguy I didn't see your deleted post. But anyone who states that something they read in the TELEGRAPH is a FACT needs to be taken with a measure of doubt.

er, the Telegraph is just reporting Companies House records. Easily verifiable.

And what right do the McCanns have to point fingers when they whinged and sued about people doing it to them? They are not Crimestoppers FFS.

Has this man always been in the frame and now he's dying, investigators hope he'll confess if he's has any involvement?

Or has he indicated he has something to say on his death-bed & contacted them?

"He was eliminated after he provided an alibi" -from a fifteen year old girl....?

If he has prior for sexual offences against underage girls/children I expect he may very well have been in breach of conditions for having been in the company of a fifteen year old girl for whatever reason.

There's no point in getting into a discussion of their behaviour, background, etc., because they are very litigious and in any case it will probably be deleted.

Suffice to say they have no right to put out press releases naming ANYBODY. The only people that should do that are the police.

It is about selling papers.the photo on the mirror cover has shades of Jade goody with the mask and I can't believe any paedophile would want their picture all over the press like that unless they had been paid.It is most odd these sickos usually do anything to avoid being exposed yet here he is posing for a picture?

Someguy. Moral outrage aside, I expect if it's upon their instructions to their hired private detectives they can look forward to a libel action. Whether it would be successful or not is another question.

I do think this could seriously backfire for the mccanns, or their pr at least.

If this man did not have anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance he would have a good case for lible.

I think that's the point dittany. There's assumption, information, intelligence then evidence. This is only assumption.

This is a wind up isn't it? Draw a circle on a map an hours drive across and say "ha! there is a man lives there so I reckon he did it!"

You can get to the place by plane in a couple of hours I think so let's make every criminal in europe a suspect.

Onagar I think there were other things that made them suspicious - he allegedly talked to people in a way that implied he knew what had happened to her. It's not solely based on location/previous convictions.

(But I just read that in the Daily Mail so it may be, erm, made up!)

The McCann investigators have of course got a vested interest in finding a culprit. If they get no results = they're off the case and the payroll. Dubious, imo.

agree fircone.

It says in this artacle:

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"Mr Thompson told the Daily Mirror: "Hewlett befriended us but kept quiet about his terrible past." would people really consider that surprising? After all I don't think it's customary for paedophiles to introduce themselves as such is it?

Oh for heaven's sake. This is all so pointless. The girl is dead.

Where did the papers get the picture?Why don't they just re open the investigation and let this man and any other possible suspects be questioned as per the law and behind closed doors?I don't think you can just walk into a hospital and snap away.Another diversion that will unfortunately come to nothing.

Eh what? am very confused because I read a few days ago that detectives paid for by the madeleine fund (presume same ones - how many are there??!?) had evidence that she was alive & well and being cared for in a 'peasant' village a few miles away from the resort?
Am that a person can be named in this outrrageous way - I am not condoning his previous crime,s obviously, but completely unacceptabel for private vivglates to throw names about like this - if they think they have evidence it should go to the police.

more mccann spin

another convenient patsy