The Sun: MIDNIGHT RAID New Madeleine McCann suspect ‘broke into British family’s holiday home wearing surgical mask and loomed over sleeping girl, 7,

MIDNIGHT RAID New Madeleine McCann suspect ‘broke into British family’s holiday home wearing surgical mask and loomed over sleeping girl, 7, saying ‘I’m your daddy’

Detectives have discovered a creep carried out nearly 30 attacks in a 40-mile radius of Praia da Luz

By Tracey Kandohla and Gerard Couzens
3rd May 2019, 9:15 pm
Updated: 3rd May 2019, 10:43 pm

A SEX fiend who speaks English and wears a surgical mask is understood to be the kidnapper Portuguese police now fear may have snatched Madeleine McCann.

In one attack he broke into a British family's home and loomed over a seven-year-old girl who woke up and asked "Is that you Daddy?" and he replied "Yes" in a foreign accent.



The seven-year-old girl from the UK woke to find the pervert laying next to her in bed wearing a medical mask.

Detectives have discovered a creep carried out nearly 30 attacks within a 40-mile radius of the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz where Maddie vanished from 12 years ago today.

He crept into Algarve properties rented by families and many victims were British.

And a judicial source is reported to have confirmed the unnamed man was definitely in Portugal at the time the three-year-old suddenly disappeared.

And the insider also alleged he was KNOWN to local cops and had previously been investigated on suspicion of involvement in paedophile cases.

A chilling reconstruction features in the final episode of Netflix's recently released eight-part documentary The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann.

Portuguese cops are believed to be working on a tip off from Scotland Yard about an alleged foreign paedophile.

Maddie’s parents Kate and Gerry are kept updated of any significant new development in the Met Police investigation, aided by their foreign counterparts.

But their spokesperson Clarence Mitchell declined to discuss the latest claim, saying: “We will not be commenting whatsoever on operational details in either Britain or Portugal.

"We are not in a position to talk about it.”

A friend of the McCann’s added: “It is just odd that news of this possible new lead has come out of the anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance and we’re wondering if it could have been made up."

Investigators Anthony Summers and his wife Robbyn Swan, who penned a book about the case and narrated the Netflix doc, said the masked intruder was one of at least 12 suspects police are probing.

Anthony said: "From what the little girls told their parents afterwards, the man had come into the room wearing a sort of medical mask. He had a funny smell.''

Robyn said the holiday company that operated the Ocean Club resort where the McCanns were staying had refused to comment on whether or not they knew of these sexual assaults.

She said the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had declined to comment on why British holidaymakers had not been warned.

Of the Maddie case she told the documentary: "Would they have left their children alone had they known there was a sexual predator about?"

Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry have already slammed the new Netflix documentary saying it “won’t help” the search for their daughter.
'KNOWN TO COPS'

The family also believe the controversial new film could “fuel conspiracy theorists”, their spokesman said earlier.
A Met Police spokesperson said: "We have no response to this – we will not be giving a running commentary of an ongoing investigation.”

The new suspect's nationality was not revealed in today's reports.

Respected news website Expresso claimed: “The PJ (Policia Judiciaria) is following a tip received from Scotland Yard and sent recently to Portugal relating to the Madeleine McCann case, Expresso has learned from a judicial source.

“According to the source, it relates to a complaint made about a foreigner who was in Portugal in May 2007, when the English girl disappeared from a tourist complex in Praia da Luz.

“The suspect is no stranger to Portuguese police. At the time the PJ investigated him on suspicion of being involved in cases of paedophilia but in light of the information coming from London, the investigators are looking into this case in more detail."

The source told the website: “This is a line of investigation that is still open. Like others.”

The PJ are already said to have spoken to witnesses who could help in connection with the new lead.

Asked this morning to comment on the latest reports in Portugal, including the Correio story about Portuguese police having a "new suspect" and "new lead," Portugal's Attorney General's office repeated an answer it gave last month to a question about whether Scotland Yard had formally requested more help via rogatory letters.
A spokesman said: “Regarding these facts, as is public knowledge, an inquiry in the Portimao section of the Faro DIAP Public Prosecutors Office is ongoing. It is under investigation.”

The news coincides with the 12th anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance as the youngster's parents vowed to carry on looking for their daughter "for as long as it takes".

Parents Kate and Gerry McCann said on their Official Find Maddie Campaign website: "It's that time of year again.
KATE AND GERRY'S PAIN

"As much as we'd like to fast forward the first couple of weeks of May, there's no getting around it.

"The months and years roll by too quickly; Madeleine will be sixteen this month. It’s impossible to put into words just how that makes us feel.

"There is comfort and reassurance though in knowing that the investigation continues and many people around the world remain vigilant.

"Thank you to everyone who continues to support us and for your ongoing hope and belief."

Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished during a family holiday in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.

She had been left sleeping alone with her younger twin siblings while her parents were dining in a nearby tapas restaurant with pals at the seaside complex.

Yesterday it was revealed Scotland Yard has asked for more funding as it continues to follow up leads in the disappearance.

British police launched their own investigation, Operation Grange, in 2013 after a Portuguese inquiry failed to make progress.

Force bosses have been applying for funding from the Home Office every six months to continue the inquiry, which has cost about £11.75 million.

Earlier today, Kate joined friends and well wishers to remember her daughter on the painful 12th anniversary of her disappearance.

Last November, a further £150,000 was granted and Maddie's parents told of their delight at being given fresh hope.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8996784/madeleine-mccann-suspect-paedophile-portugal-mask-daddy-holiday-home/

Oh, really!

Well you need to write copy Tracy to keep your job. Do these people ever have any self-awareness? Or is that a rhetorical question?

Also, 

Did that photo accompany the article? If so, well.... 

add your own comments

Did I see Summers and Quack mentioned?

Is this new news?  I don't think so.  If it's not new for us then surely the Port. police would have known about it for some good while.   I will pull out R Trace's stories to read next time I have difficulty getting to sleep  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Has this paedo ever snatched another child?

" It's that time of year again " 

Probably the only true comment in this whole load of twaddle ! 

As for " he had a funny smell " the stink surrounds all of them and it ain't sea bass !

I don't know whether to cite Mick Jagger and 'the midnight rambler' or Paul McCartney and 'she came in through the bathroom window' - or maybe a duet is in order here.

coati mundi wrote:Also, 

Did that photo accompany the article? If so, well.... 

add your own comments

If you refer to the picture of Zoro, then yes it came with the article. I believe it's a still taken from that farcical Netflix thingy.

They have added that he wore a surgical mask in the new articles and 5 years later they are still searching for this smellyman?
If this would be true I understand why they are in need for more money if it take 5 years to find a guy who was already known for the PT Police.
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2014
Madeleine McCann police seek. intruder who attacked girls at holiday homes
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Detectives investigating girl's disappearance look for dark-haired man who sexually abused five girls in Algarve

James Meikle
Wed 19 Mar 2014 21.03 GMTFirst published on Wed 19 Mar 2014 

[size=48]Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese holiday resort nearly seven years ago say a lone intruder sexually assaulted five girls aged between seven and 10 in the Algarve between 2004 and 2006.
The four incidents – one involving two girls – were among 12 over six years up to 2010 being examined by officers in which a man entered holiday accommodation, mainly villas occupied by British families.
In six of those incidents, the man, said to be dark-haired and tanned, sat on the victims' beds. In nine of the 12 incidents there was no evidence of forced entry or property taken. In three others there was "low-level" theft involving cash or phones. Police said he appeared to have "a very, very, unhealthy interest" in young white girls.
The man, said to be unshaven with unkempt hair, spoke English slowly, with a foreign accent, possibly with slurred speech. Some witnesses suggested he had a pot belly while three victims suggested he had a distinctive smell, one involving aftershave, another tobacco while a third just described "a funny smell".


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However, no children were abducted.
Detectives said there had been an increase in criminality and burglary in Praia da Luz that peaked in April 2007, shortly before Madeleine's disappearance.
Scotland Yard also revealed it was looking at 38 "people of interest" in relation to her disappearance, having dismissed 22 others from that category. They were also trying to find out more about 530 known sex offenders – 59 regarded as of high interest – across Europe.
However Portugal's Polícia Judiciária (PJ) claimed that Wednesday's press conference simply confirmed a primary line of investigation which has been investigated by Portuguese police since last October. Suggestions that the information released by the Met had initially been discounted by Portuguese detectives were denied by a source at the PJ's headquarters in Lisbon.
He said that evidence of a string of crimes had been the driving force behind Portuguese officials re-opening the case. "It is all there in the police case files," said the source. "You will see when it is made public."
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have been informed of the latest developments.
Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for the McCann family, told the BBC: "Kate and Gerry still believe that Madeleine is alive and out there to be found, and that is why they are so pleased that the British police are doing such a good job on this."
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, in charge of the hunt for Madeleine, accepted there were differences between these cases and that of Madeleine's disappearance but added that there was a possibility that she had not left her family's holiday apartment alive when she disappeared in May 2007.
In most cases now being examined, the incidents happened between 2am and 5am – later than in the disappearance of Madeleine, then aged three, from a ground floor apartment at the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz while her parents had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.
Redwood said the assumption that Madeleine was abducted "may not follow with all our thinking" on the case.
"These offences are very serious and no one has been charged in connection with them. We also need to eliminate this man from our inquiries and ascertain whether these offences are linked to Madeleine's disappearance," he said.
"If you have been a victim of a similar crime please come forward even if you reported the incident to police in Portugal, or anywhere else, please do not assume we have been made aware of it."
There was also a "very close resonance" to some features of Madeleine's disappearance, said Redwood.
"We really need to identify the offender, to bring to a close the trauma and the tragedy that these families have suffered, and then seek to establish whether this is connected to Madeleine's disappearance."
He appealed for information and gave details of a distinctive burgundy long-sleeved top the attacker was said to have worn during two attacks – in the resort areas of Vale de Parra and Praia da Gale. On one occasion it was described as having a white circle on the back.
The appeal will also be made via BBC's Crimewatch on Wednesday night.
Redwood said if names were put forward for the most serious case of sexual assault, his team would be able to eliminate them from inquiries, suggesting the police may have DNA evidence.
Nine of the 12 incidents were reported to Portuguese police at the time but British investigators learned of three only when the victims came forward in response to televised appeals last autumn.
In the attacks, the suspect may have been in the villa or looking around the villa for some time before committing the offences or being disturbed either by a parent coming in, or the child waking up, say police. On two occasions the noise of a refuse collection lorry could be heard nearby.
Of the 12 offences being investigated, four took place in Carvoeiro, six in Vale da Parra, Praia da Gale district, and two in Praia da Luz. Detectives have previously suggested Madeleine may have been abducted in a planned operation that had included individuals exploring the resort beforehand.
Scotland Yard issued efit images in October last year of a possible suspect with dark hair reportedly seen carrying a child with blond hair and possibly wearing pyjamas. The publication of the pictures on Crimewatch led to a huge response by the public and this man has still not been excluded from the police inquiry.
Efits of two fair-haired men seen near the McCanns' apartment were also released and police in the UK and Portugal have also been investigating break-ins around the resort, one of which occurred the same week a year before Madeleine disappeared and involved a man who entered a flat where young children were sleeping.
Fresh appeals were also made in Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany.
Scotland Yard has indicated its irritation with the slowness of the formal legal process that would allow its officers to work on the ground in Portugal. The Crown Prosecution Service has three so-called letters of request being considered by the country's legal system, among 33 from Britain on the case now being sent or prepared to be dispatched across Europe.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said: "I am frustrated the legal process is as slow as it is." But he maintained: "We are seeing an increase in the tempo of the investigation."
Scotland Yard says officers involved in the case have made 26 "strategic and tactical" visits to Portugal as well as travelling to Spain, Belgium, Jersey, Switzerland, Holland and Germany as well as working with colleagues across the UK. Police are asking members of the public with information to call them on 0800 0961011 within the UK. The number for non-UK residents is +44 207 1580 126. Callers can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
• This article was amended on 21 March 2014. The earlier version stated that Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood had said the assumption that Madeleine had been alive when she left the apartment "may not follow with all our thinking" on the case. To clarify: those quoted words actually came after Redwood had referred to the assumption that Madeleine had been abducted. However, Redwood did say during the same press conference that police were considering the possibility that Madeleine was not alive when taken from the apartment as well as the possibility that she was.[/size]

Can anyone provide any links to statements , interviews comments from any of the 

British families whose children were molested by the " creep " who sat on their beds , 

was pot bellied , unshaven ( but now wears a surgical mask ! ) spoke broken English and was " smelly " .

Said " creep " never apparently attempted to abduct any of the children , surely though 
as a result of Madeleine being " abducted " one of those families would have come forward saying " that could have been our child , this man is still on the loose ! " 

If I've missed anything on this forum or elsewhere I'm certain someone can point me in 
the right direction . 

After all there  aren't many smelly , masked creeps sitting on children's beds are there ?

Mmmmm, now let me think .

I did come across a stranger today, he wasn't dressed like a tourist, who could quite fit the bill..

Verdi wrote:Mmmmm, now let me think .

I did come across a stranger today, he wasn't dressed like a tourist, who could quite fit the bill..

Bit early for Halloween isn't he ! 

Must have discarded the mask along the way , that would certainly cover up his pumpkin head . 

No longer Zorro or the Lone Ranger , now to be known as the Pumpkin Patsy .

Case closed , Operation Grange can settle back in the broom cupboard with the coffee and biscuits and put their feet up knowing they've done their best to " help the McCanns " . Madeleine Who ? 

Good job I've not had breakfast yet it would probably be making a reappearance , with the amount of vomit inducing headlines MSM are throwing around . 
Perverting the Course of Justice and Misconduct in Public Office , where will it all end , poor Madeleine Beth McCann , bless you sweetheart

Thank goodness the msm have at last realised the reason The Abductor has eluded Justice for so long!

 No-one ever realised just how deviously clever he was!

I'm thinking of applying to be a tabloid journalist. I can conjure up the eye-catching sub-headings required!

Monster in a mask

Snatched in moments

Cleaned the tiles behind the sofa


Planted DNA

Planted cadaver odour in car


How am I doing? Do you think I'll get invited to the gym?

Can you type fast in order to meet deadlines?



Quantity, not quality.

worriedmum wrote:Thank goodness the msm have at last realised the reason The Abductor has eluded Justice for so long!

 No-one ever realised just how deviously clever he was!

I'm thinking of applying to be a tabloid journalist. I can conjure up the eye-catching sub-headings required!

Monster in a mask

Snatched in moments

Cleaned the tiles behind the sofa


Planted DNA

Planted cadaver odour in car


How am I doing? Do you think I'll get invited to the gym?

Don't forget 
Made the bed 
Tucked the open ( or was it closed curtains ?) behind the chair .
Left lots of " red herrings .
Carried a supply of drugs to sedate crying children .
But somehow managed to leave no evidence of his ( or was it her ?) presence ! 

I think the only " Quality " dear Tracey knows come in tins . 

sandancer wrote:

worriedmum wrote:Thank goodness the msm have at last realised the reason The Abductor has eluded Justice for so long!

 No-one ever realised just how deviously clever he was!

I'm thinking of applying to be a tabloid journalist. I can conjure up the eye-catching sub-headings required!

Monster in a mask

Snatched in moments

Cleaned the tiles behind the sofa


Planted DNA

Planted cadaver odour in car


How am I doing? Do you think I'll get invited to the gym?

Don't forget 
Made the bed 
Tucked the open ( or was it closed curtains ?) behind the chair .
Left lots of " red herrings .
Carried a supply of drugs to sedate crying children .
But somehow managed to leave no evidence of his ( or was it her ?) presence ! 

I think the only " Quality " dear Tracey knows come in tins . 

Good quality wristbands?