https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1304699/clement-freud-drank-with-madeleine-mccann-suspect-and-at-perv-pub-with-child-sex-beast-dj-shifty/
Freud was on 'nodding terms' with former suspect in tot's disappearance as well as being a regular at a pub 'for paedos'
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By ANTONELLA LAZZERI
18th June 2016, 8:27 pm
PAEDOPHILE Clement Freud regularly drank at a pub frequented by the former prime suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.
He and Robert Murat were on “nodding terms” at the Pigs Head, according to the landlord of the boozer in Portugal.
Freud, who was unmasked as a child abuser last week, was also a regular at a pub in Praia da Luz dubbed The Plough and Paedophile.
The fact Freud and Murat knew each other is one in a series of odd links that the dead former Liberal MP had to the McCanns.
He had also entertained Gerry and Kate at his house in the days after Madeleine disappeared in 2007.
Murat, 43, lived close to the apartment where the three-year-old was snatched. He was named a as a suspect by Portuguese police, but later cleared of any involvement. And Freud’s Casa da Colina villa in the resort is a few hundred yards from a key sighting of Madeleine.
A Brit said that he saw a man carrying a little girl in the early hours of May 4, 2007.
The villa is also dwarfed by a huge hill that Kate, 47, was once convinced was where Madeleine was buried and begged cops to have it searched.
Her plea came in July 2007, when Freud befriended the McCanns.
Robert Hurst, landlord of the Pigs Head, said: “I find that really odd. I can’t imagine why he would suddenly want to invite them to his house.
“At the time Madeleine went, all hell was going on. Police everywhere, people just stunned and he’s straight in there having them over to dinner.
“When it came out this week that he was a paedophile, it made you wonder what he was up to?”
Freud, who was revealed in an ITV documentary to have abused girls as young as ten, also visited the nearby Plough and Harrow.
It was nicknamed the Plough and Paedophile after a Brit working there dubbed DJ Shifty went on the run when cops tried to speak to him over alleged grooming and child sex abuse images.
Christian Ridout, 32, whose parents owned the bar and lived next door to Murat, has never been traced.
In her book about Madeleine, Kate told how Freud, then 83, sent a letter out of the blue inviting them to his house for a meal.She said he offered her strawberry vodka and cooked her and Gerry, 48, risotto for dinner.
The McCanns grew fond of Freud, who once teased Kate about rumours she was a nymphomaniac.
She said in her book that his humour helped their pain, saying: “Thank God for people like Clement who kept us smiling.”
The couple are said to be horrified by the revelations about Freud.
One of his victims, Vicky Haynes, 64, went to police after reading Kate’s book four years ago.
She said he was a private man and it “beggared belief he would suddenly befriend a couple who had intense media attention”.
She is convinced Freud, who died in 2009, was part of a paedophile gang operating in Praia da Luz.
Police in the resort last night refused to say whether Freud was ever part of their investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.
But a spokesman said officers are “considering” the latest information.
We have visited the Pig's Head once, for a family Sunday Lunch. It is about half way between Luz and Burgau, so it seems an odd place for either Murat or Freud to use as a watering hole.
I would rate it as a bit below average. Not a dump but somewhat less than middle class.
I could not eat my lunch. I happen to like small portions of good food. The idea here was pile it high and sell it cheap. And cheap lamb in a roast is a non-starter. The chef was ex-army, and he was obviously still working to the idea the army-bods need 3,000 calories a day to cope with a very active lifestyle. Out of a large family group, no-one actually thought the meal was good.
The bar tender was gruff and unfriendly. I don't know whether he was the landlord noted in this article.
Anyway, we chalked it off our list of places for Sunday lunch.
I cannot for a moment see someone like Freud frequenting such a place. The idea that someone who likes good food and strawberry vodkas would travel to get to a somewhat downmarket pub/restaurant sounds a bit off.
I can't make any judgement about Robert Murat using it, based on a character assessment, as I don't know enough about him.
Moving on to the Plough, the son of the owners was, allegedly, guilty of a paedophile offence. He is mentioned, not by name, in Amaral's book. The parents said he was in Iraq at the time, IIRC, and the PJ confirmed that, so he was ruled out.
The Plough changed hands and was later run by Paul and June Wright, who feature in the files. On 3 May 2007, they were running the Duque de Hollandia, and both took part in the search for Madeleine. June was also asked whether Murat was around 5A that evening, as she knew him by sight, and she says she did not see him.
That just leaves me with the small puzzle of how Antonella Lazzeri got in touch with Robert Hurst, the landlord of the Pig's Head, a pub/restaurant that is outside Luz. Either her contact list is immense, or Hurst must have got in touch with her when the Freud story broke.
I have to say, with the quality and tone of writing in the article, I wonder how much of it has simply been cobbled together to get a sensationalist 'paedophile ring' angle.
