Matthew Freud ‘in UK on night McCann disappeared’

Matthew Freud said his father, Clement Freud, was in the UK on the night Madeleine McCann vanished in Portugal, and that his father was then 83.

He said the McCann detectives had not asked the family about their father, who has been accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and the 1970s.

Freud had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, the resort where the three-year-old went missing in 2007. The McCanns are said to be “horrified” that Freud was a paedophile.