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Sunday, 9 May 2010

Madeleine Suspect On 'Beach Snap'

Detectives have been handed a photograph showing a man behaving oddly in the days before Madeleine McCann was kidnapped. A British holidaymaker accidentally captured him in the background of a family snap taken at the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in April 2007, days before Madeleine, then three, disappeared. It was passed to detectives from Leicestershire who are assisting the police in Portugal. Last week we published Gail Cooper’s account of her encounter with the strange man when he later came to her holiday villa in the resort, asking for money for an orphanage. Today we reveal that one of Mrs Cooper’s friends, Leanda Hodson-Mackey, took a snap of her husband Stephen, 34, and son, then aged two, and the man appeared in the background, walking along the beach during a downpour. Although his features cannot be clearly made out, there is a rough image which could be enhanced with FBI picture improvement techniques. (Sunday Express)