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15th Jun 2016

There’s a new high-profile suspect in the Madeleine McCann case

Cassie Delaney

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have focused attention on a new high-profile suspect.

It has emerged that British MP Sir Clement Freud, who has recently been accused of the abuse of two other girls, also had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal. The villa was located close to where the three-year-old went missing in 2007.

According to The Metro, Two women have recently revealed to ITV Exposure that the late Freud abused them. Sylvia Woosley who met Freud when she was only ten, said he abused her for years.

A second anonymous woman claimed that Freud abused her as a child.

In the weeks following Madeleine’s disappearance, Freud befriended the McCann’s and hosted them twice in his villa.

September 1987: Clement Freud at the Liberal Party conference in Harrogate. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)Clement Freud via Getty Images

In a new documentary, Exposure: Abused and Betrayed – A Life Sentence, Sylvia speaks about the abuse she endured.

‘I don’t want to take this to my tomb” she says.

‘I would like to just return to the child I was before I was molested physically, before I was introduced to that side of life too early.’

Sylvia also claims that when she confronted Freud about the abuse he said he did it because he loved her.

“You were a very sensual little girl,” he allegedly said.