Madeleine McCann suspect kidnapped Northwich schoolgirl (From Northwich Guardian)

Madeleine McCann suspect Raymond Hewlett kidnapped and assaulted a Northwich schoolgirl

1:52pm Wednesday 27th May 2009 in News By Gina Bebbington

THE paedophile suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann kidnapped and assaulted a Northwich schoolgirl in 1988.

Raymond Hewlett, 64, who has been identified as a ‘person of interest’ by Gerry and Kate McCann’s private investigators, was jailed for six years after he abducted the 14-year-old Cuddington girl from her paper round at knifepoint.

She was kidnapped in January 1988 and abandoned in North Wales.

Hewlett, who was 43 at the time, has been described by the McCanns as ‘one line of inquiry’ by private investigators into the disappearance of their daughter.

Madeleine, then three, vanished from a holiday apartment in the Algarve in May 2007.