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A British paedophile who once lived in Australia has been arrested over a child sex crime – and is expected to be questioned over the abduction of Madeline McCann.
Roderick McDonald, 76, will be extradited from Malta to Britain for the rape of a separate child under 13, and will also be questioned by police about a paedophile ring possibly linked to Madeline’s 2007 abduction.
The UK Daily Mirror reports McDonald – known as Roderick William Robinson while he was living in Australia – has links to paedophile gangs that operated in Algarve, Portugal, where three-year-old Madeline was abducted.
McDonald has been on the run since being convicted in 2012 of abusing two young girls.
The Daily Telegraph reports McDonald, an ex-oil rig worker, was sentenced to six months in prison for sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl in the late 1990s. He was arrested by NSW Police in 2001 but fled while on bail.
McDonald was subsequently arrested in New Zealand in 2009 over alleged child sex offences but again fled — this time to Portugal, aided by a fake passport.
McDonald was finally arrested by Interpol and extradited to Australia, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault of a child under 10 and served a brief sentence, according to The Daily Telegraph.
McDonald later returned to Thailand and was arrested by local police following a joint operation between the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency and Thai authorities. He was sent back to the UK, but again fled to Europe after allegedly preying on more girls.
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that authorities finally tracked him to Malta this week. He was arrested and will now be extradited back to the UK to serve his prison sentence, and to face questions by detectives investigating Madeleine’s disappearance.
Madeline’s mother Kate McCann said it was “unbelievable” police had missed the chance to quiz the man over Madeleine, The Mirror reports.
She said: “The police knew he was in Portugal around the time she vanished, but let him slip through their fingers.
The police are proposing new tests on DNA found in the little girl’s bedroom that that did not belong to workers at the holiday resort where her family was staying at the time of her abduction.
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People who like to think the McCanns are guilty constantly tell others to 'read the police files' - as if there's some kind of evidence in them, Firstly, the police files online (at the so-called "McCann files") are translated by biased, amateurs. The McCanns paid to have all the police files translated by professional, objective and qualified translators. Whichever way you read them (and I've read them in Portuguese as well), there is no evidence whatsoever in the files to implicate the McCanns. There is a set of unproven theories, and a few inconsistent statements by the McCanns and their friends. It would be far more suspicious if there were no such inconsistencies. If most people were asked to rely precisely what they did and when in a day, they would not recall everything in detail - If my child had just been abducted, I think I'd have a few memory lapses here and there. We don't go around memorising seemingly insignificant details, thinking that we might be quizzed on them. The 'dogs' are not evidence either, and are used in the law as intelligence that may or may not lead to evidence. (i.e.: A body) The mere fact that those who live to defame the McCanns tell us to 'google' the evidence says it all really!! Yes, well just "google" to get your medical degree too! So much ignorance of how real research works, and what evidence is. You should all go away and get a better education and stop pouring forth such ignorance all over the internet.
What would be their reasons to get rid of their daughter? To all you people who think they are guilty? They would have got rid of all of them! There is no custody battle nothing is be interested to hear what all you detectives think! Seriously can't a kid go missing without everyone blaming the parents ???