Police in the UK investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have now also been alerted to the fact that Freud had a villa in Praia da Luz. Freud, who died in 2009, befriended the McCanns in the weeks after their daughter went missing, entertaining them at his house on two occasions and keeping in contact by phone and email.


The McCanns are said to be horrified by the discovery that Freud was a paedophile.