Girl, 12: I saw ugly man stalk Maddie

By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

Published: 08 May 2009

A SCHOOLGIRL fears she saw the kidnapper of Madeleine McCann watching the terrace where the youngster used to play.

The Brit-born 12-year-old, interviewed days after Maddie’s disappearance, noticed a “scarily ugly” man twice apparently stalking the holiday flat in Praia da Luz.

The girl, who has lived in Portugal since she was two, always looked at the apartment because it had belonged to her grandad.

Maddie was playing on a terrace and a man was “staring” as he loitered.

Scared

She also told cops: “He had a big forehead and a pointy nose.

“Big ears but flat against his head. He had acne and was really, really ugly, repugnant.”

The unnamed girl appeared in last night’s Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary.

A source said: “She is still very scared that the man could be Maddie’s abductor and is free.

Cops got an artist to make a drawing of her description, supported by other witnesses — but it was never circulated publicly.

SHAMED Portuguese cop Goncalo Amaral, once in charge of the case, claimed yesterday the girl died in the flat and “we discovered Kate McCann’s fingerprints on the window of Madeleine’s room”.

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