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Former broadcaster and politician Sir Clement Freud, who befriended the McCann family following the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine in 2007, has been exposed as a pedophile, who sexually abused young girls for decades.
Freud spent years abusing girls as young as 10, including Sylvia Woosley, whom he raised as a daughter. He continuously abused her until she managed to move out aged 19.
The senior Liberal Party figure died in 2009. Now police are to investigate his links to the McCann family after the abuse claims were made by an ITV Exposure documentary.
Gerry and Kate McCann are thought to have been in contact with the MP, who had a holiday home in the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal, where Madeleine disappeared and also hosted the McCanns at his home,
the Telegraph reports.
Though Freud's family allegedly denied he was in Portugal at the time of Madeleine's disappearance, police are expected to assess the new information about his past and decide whether the fresh revelations are relevant to the case.
His widow Jill Freud, 89, said in a statement she is "deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women."
The McCanns also said they are "horrified" by the discovery that Freud was a pedophile following the ITV revelations.
A spokesperson for the family said Gerry and Kate McCann were unaware of the politician's history of child abuse.
Officers from Operation Grange, the ongoing investigation by London's Metropolitan Police, did not respond the questions about a possible link, but former murder squad detective Colin Sutton said "it would be certainly a potential line of inquiry that would be worth pursuing," according to the
Telegraph.
"It is not something that ought to be taken lightly and you would also want to look at any connections he may have had in the area at that time," he added.
A second woman who remains anonymous told ITV she was abused by Freud at age 11 and eventually raped seven years later when he was an MP for the Liberal Party and shared an office with MP Cyril Smith, who was also revealed to be a pedophile following his death in 2010.
Freud had been a popular television and radio personality for decades and regularly contributed to Radio 4's
Just A Minute.
He was also the grandson of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and brother of Lucian, regarded by many as Britain's greatest artist of recent decades.
Comment: Psychoanalysis, major media exposure, a high-level pedophile network, 'chance' encounters at holiday homes in Portugal, and lifetime protection.
It's a good time to be alive if you're one of
them.
Here's the 'full disclosure' on yet-another-posthumous-high-level-child-sex-predator scandal, from one of the British establishment's key fake news outlets:
Sir Clement Freud exposed as a paedophile as police urged to probe Madeleine McCann links
Martin Evans & Gordon Rayner, The Telegraph, 15 June 2016
Sir Clement Freud, the former broadcaster and politician, was exposed on Tuesday night as a paedophile who sexually abused girls as young as 10 for decades.
Freud, who died in 2009, spent years abusing a girl who he brought up as a daughter, and violently raped a teenager while he was an MP.
His widow, Lady Freud, has apologised to his victims, saying she is "shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry" for what her husband of 58 years did to them.
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been alerted to the fact that Freud had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, the resort where the three-year-old went missing in 2007.
He befriended the McCanns in the weeks after their daughter went missing, entertaining them at his house on two occasions and keeping in contact by phone and email.
The McCanns are said to be "horrified" by the discovery that Freud was a paedophile.
His family, who include the PR executive Matthew Freud, have said that Freud was not in Portugal at the time of Madeleine's disappearance and that they have not been contacted by police.
However, officers from Operation Grange, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, are expected to assess the new information before deciding if it may be relevant to the inquiry.
Freud was unmasked as a child sex abuser after one of his victims contacted ITV's Exposure documentary team, who also broke the story of Jimmy Savile's paedophilia four years ago.
Sylvia Woosley said Freud befriended her family in 1948, when he was working at a hotel in the South of France, and started abusing her when she was 10.
Four years later, following a family crisis, her mother asked Freud and his wife Jill if they would look after Mrs Woosley, and she found herself living under the same roof as her abuser, being brought up as a daughter. The abuse continued until she managed to move away when she was 19.
Another woman told ITV that Freud started abusing her in the 1970s, when she was 11, and eventually raped her when she was 18, by which time he was a Liberal MP sharing an office with Cyril Smith, who was also unmasked as a paedophile after his death. The rape was so brutal that his victim bled for a week.
Both women's accounts have been passed on to the Metropolitan Police.
Lady Freud said: "This is a very sad day for me. I was married to Clement for 58 years and loved him dearly. I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women. I sincerely hope they will now have some peace."
Freud, who was knighted in 1987, was best known as a popular panellist on the Radio 4 show Just a Minutefrom 1967 until his death in 2009.
The grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of the painter Lucian Freud, he worked his way into the heart of British society, and when he died the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was among the mourners at his funeral.
His five children include Matthew Freud and the broadcaster Emma Freud.
A spokesman for the McCann family said they had not until now been aware of Freud's child abuse and were not aware that he had ever been investigated by Operation Grange.
The Metropolitan Police did not respond to questions about Operation Grange, but former murder squad detective Colin Sutton said: "If this is something that investigators had not been aware of then it would be certainly a potential line of inquiry that would be worth pursuing.
"It is not something that ought to be taken lightly and you would also want to look any connections he may have had in the area at the time."
You have to hand it to the British Establishment; they sure know how to cover up their repulsive past-times.
This is the couple who keeps insisting that their daughter was "taken" while they were wining and dining, leaving their very young children in their apartment to fend for themselves. No evidence was found that it was an abduction. Instead, they sue people who dare to suggest otherwise, including the chief investigator and coordinator of the investigation. Mr. Amaral has written a book about the case based on the evidence he has found, after he was removed from the investigation. His assets frozen, the McCanns tried to have the sale of the book (it has not been translated into English yet) prohibited but this was overturned, while stating that they are still looking for their daughter. The British establishment seems to be knee- deep in this one and I think this Freud character is the sacrificial lamb, again the McCanns are being protected until it becomes their turn.
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