Convicted rapist one of 11 interviewed as a witness over disappearance of Madeleine McCann as Scotland Yard arrive in Portugal
•Convicted rapist, Joaquim Jose Marques, was quizzed for over six hours
•He assaulted cameramen outside police station following the interrogation
•Laundryman from resort where Madeleine disappeared also questioned
•Operation Grange Chief, DCI Andy Redwood, arrived in Faro this morning
•Seven of the 11 people being questioned are of 'high interest' to search
•Former British suspect, Robert Murat, and his wife will be questioned too
•British police have reportedly supplied over 250 questions for witnesses
•Interviews this week are the latest since four suspects were quizzed in July
•Madeleine McCann was three years old when she disappeared in May 2007
By Gerard Couzens In Faro, Portugal and Jay Akbar For Mailonline
Published: 9 December 2014
Scotland Yard detectives probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann today grilled a convicted rapist over her disappearance for over six hours.
Operation Grange chief, DCI Andy Redwood, arrived in Portugal this morning for three days of questioning with 11 witnesses.
It is the third time the pig farmer, Joaquim Jose Marques, has been quizzed about the youngster's disappearance from her holiday apartment in May 2007.
Marques - initially linked to Madeleine's disappearance after being identified by an artist's drawing of the potential suspect - assaulted two cameramen as he left Faro Police Station following his interrogation.
He fell to the ground as he tried to throw a punch at one, and threw a bottle of water at another when he returned from a quick lunch.
Questioned: Joaquim Jose Marques (right) is one of the 11 people being questioned over the disappearance
Witness: Marquez, a convicted rapist, assaulted two cameramen after being interrogated in Faro today (left). He threatened reporters with a gun outside his Algarve pig farm when he was first identified as a suspect in January 2008 (right)
Interrogated: Mario Marreiros (pictured), who worked as a laundryman at the holiday resort where Madeleine went missing, was also quizzed.
Investigation: Last month it emerged the British police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (pictured) has cost almost £8million
Marques threatened reporters with a gun outside his Algarve pig farm when he was first identified as a suspect in January 2008, but was understood to have been ruled out of the investigation after providing an alibi.
He was questioned 20 days after Madeleine vanished in May 2007, and again after the release of a sketch done by a forensic artist from the FBI, based on descriptions by British tourist Gail Cooper.
She told the police a 'creepy man' came to her villa in the Praia da Luz resort where Madeleine disappeared from to ask for donations for a nearby orphanage -- days before the youngster went missing.
Marques, who was living with his British hairdresser girlfriend and their three-year-old daughter at the time, was then identified as a convicted rapist by Portuguese press.
Diario de Noticias reported he was sentenced to five years in jail in 1996 for raping a British teenager in Praia da Luz in 1995, while an accomplice targeted her friend.
Police also questioned a former laundryman at the Ocean Club holiday resort where Madeleine was staying at when she vanished.
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