Sir Clement Freud and the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
The revelations by three of his alleged victims that Sir Clement Freud – the late jewish broadcaster and liberal Member of the British Parliament - was a long time paedophile and rapist. Came as a fresh shock to the British political establishment desperate to bury the scandals associated with paedophiles freely operating in its ranks.
I have covered why I think the claims made against Freud are probably true and not fabricated hysteria in a separate article. However another dimension to the Freud paedophilia case quickly reared its ugly head: Madeleine McCann.
The Express quickly noted that Freud developed a close friendship with the McCanns out of the blue two months after the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. (1) In addition to the fact that Freud owned a holiday villa that he regularly used in the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal meters away from where the McCanns were living. (2)
Further we know from the revelations of Sylvia Woosley that Freud sexually abused her when she was 10 year old in the late 1940s. (3)
This puts Freud in the position of being a known paedophile with a private residence in close proximity to where a three year old British girl disappears in Portugal and whose parents he seeks to befriend out of the blue two months after the event occurs.
Further the fact that we know Freud usually holidayed in the Praia da Luz resort alone – except for his Portuguese maid and gardener – suggests that he may well have been hiding something given that he was also associating with known paedophiles while he was in Portugal (4) despite the fact that his family were quick to claim that he was in the UK at the time (and the police seem to have accepted this without further investigation). (5)
So serious was this new lead being taken by the authorities that detectives were quickly dispatched to find out what truth – if any – there was to this intriguing new possibility (6) but then it all went remarkably silent with no follow up and no reporting that I can find outside of trumpeting the latest favourite suspect (a fellow paedophile to Freud) Christian Brückner who was also around the Praia da Luz resort at the time.
We shall see if we ever find out the truth.
References
(1) https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/679944/madeleine-mccann-kate-gerry-praia-da-luz-sir-clement-freud-paedophile? ; https://www.smh.com.au/world/exposed-child-abuser-former-mp-clement-freud-linked-to-madeleine-mccann-family-20160615-gpjvda.html ; https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/emails-between-paedophile-clement-freud-8234088
(2) Ibid; https://www.rt.com/uk/346749-clement-freud-pedophile-mccanns/
(3) https://www.rt.com/uk/346749-clement-freud-pedophile-mccanns/
(4) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3659322/Police-launch-probe-Freud-knew-Maddie-uncover-new-details-ex-MP-s-disturbing-relationship-McCanns.html
(5) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/15/police-were-told-two-years-ago-about-clement-freuds-madeleine-mc/
(6) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/25/sir-clement-freud-victim-interviewed-by-madeleine-mccann-detecti/