Paedophile denies seeing Madeleine

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Raymond Hewlett, whom detectives working for the McCann family have tried and failed to interview, declared: "I'd take a lie-detector test. I'll take any test you like.

"The only time I've seen Madeleine McCann is on missing posters. And I saw her on TV in a bar once. But I've never seen her in real life."

Final attempts by the detectives to interview Hewlett failed on Wednesday.

Retired UK policemen Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley flew to Germany the day before hoping to speak to Hewlett, who is said to have been staying an hour's drive from the McCanns' Portuguese holiday flat when the little girl vanished.

But negotiations between the private investigators and Hewlett's German lawyer broke down, leading Mr Edgar, who has been employed by Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann to look for their daughter, to say he was "very disappointed" with the lawyer's behaviour.

He said: "I have been attempting to speak with Raymond Hewlett to eliminate him from our investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

"He is not a suspect but I was keen to interview him because of his failing health."

The detective said he had been told that the paedophile could only manage a 60-minute interview when to quiz him properly would take five hours.

Hewlett, 64, a former soldier who previously lived in Blackpool and Telford, has been treated for throat cancer in Aachen.