Clement Freud exposed as Paedophile - Police urged to probe Madeleine McCann links

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/

Sir Clement Freud exposed as a paedophile as police urged to probe Madeleine McCann links


By Martin Evans,  Crime Correspondent  and
Gordon Rayner,  Chief Reporter  
14 June 2016 • 9:26pm  




Sir Clement Freud, the former broadcaster and politician, was exposed last night as a paedophile who sexually abused girls as young as 10 for decades.

Freud, who died in 2009, spent years abusing a girl who he brought up as a daughter, and violently raped a teenager while he was an MP.

His widow, Lady Freud, has apologised to his victims, saying she is “shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry” for what her husband of 58 years did to them.


Clement Freud has been accused of abusing two girls Credit: ITV REX Shutterstock  




Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been alerted to the fact that Freud had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, the resort where the three-year-old went missing in 2007.

He 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.

His family, who include the PR executive Matthew Freud, have said that Freud was not in Portugal at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance and that they have not been contacted by police.

However, officers from Operation Grange, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, are expected to assess the new information before deciding if it may be relevant to the inquiry.

Freud was unmasked as a child sex abuser after one of his victims contacted ITV’s Exposure documentary team, who also broke the story of Jimmy Savile’s paedophilia four years ago.

Sylvia Woosley said Freud befriended her family in 1948, when he was working at a hotel in the South of France, and started abusing her when she was 10.

Four years later, following a family crisis, her mother asked Freud and his wife Jill if they would look after Mrs Woosley, and she found herself living under the same roof as her abuser, being brought up as a daughter. The abuse continued until she managed to move away when she was 19.

Another woman told ITV that Freud started abusing her in the 1970s, when she was 11, and eventually raped her when she was 18, by which time he was a Liberal MP sharing an office with Cyril Smith, who was also unmasked as a paedophile after his death. The rape was so brutal that his victim bled for a week.

Both women’s accounts have been passed on to the Metropolitan Police.

Lady Freud said: “This is a very sad day for me. I was married to Clement for 58 years and loved him dearly. I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women. I sincerely hope they will now have some peace.”

Freud, who was knighted in 1987, was best known as a popular panellist on the Radio 4 show Just a Minute from 1967 until his death in 2009.

The grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of the painter Lucian Freud, he worked his way into the heart of British society, and when he died the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was among the mourners at his funeral.

His five children include Matthew Freud and the broadcaster Emma Freud.

A spokesman for the McCann family said they had not until now been aware of Freud’s child abuse and were not aware that he had ever been investigated by Operation Grange.

The Metropolitan Police did not respond to questions about Operation Grange, but former murder squad detective Colin Sutton said: "If this is something that investigators had not been aware of then it would be certainly a potential line of inquiry that would be worth pursuing.

"It is not something that ought to be taken lightly and you would also want to look any connections he may have had in the area at the time."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/how-clement-freud-invited-kate-and-gerry-mccann-for-lunch-after/

How Clement Freud invited Kate and Gerry McCann for lunch after Madeleine disappeared


By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
14 June 2016 • 9:27pm




Kate and Gerry McCann were two months into the search for their missing daughter Madeleine when they received a letter out of the blue.

It was from Sir Clement Freud, inviting them for a meal at his holiday home in Praia da Luz, a short drive from the Ocean Club, where Madeleine had vanished on May 3, 2007.

“I’m embarrassed to admit that Gerry and I thought this letter was a hoax,” Mrs McCann wrote in her book, Madeleine.

Gerry McCann phoned the number on the letter, discovered it was not a prank, and the next day the McCanns were at Freud’s villa with their twins Sean and Amelie, plus three friends who had stayed in Portugal to help them.

Freud, 83, broke the ice by offering them strawberry vodka.

“I’m usually very intimidated by people with brains the size of planets,” wrote Mrs McCann, “but Clement was incredibly warm, funny and instantly likeable.”

He cooked a “bloody marvellous” meal of watercress and egg salad followed by a chicken and mushroom risotto, “the best risotto we’ve ever tasted before or since”.

Mrs McCann wrote: “Clement cheered us up with his lugubrious wit, and would continue to do so by email after his return to England.”

By August 31, after spending a few weeks in England, Freud was back in Portugal and called Gerry McCann as soon as he arrived.

Freud made a joke out of newspaper reports that Mr McCann was close to a breakdown. “Thank God for people like Clement who kept us smiling,” Mrs McCann wrote.

On the day the McCanns were formally made suspects in the investigation in September 2007, they had been due to go to dinner at Freud’s house again, but cancelled it.

Nevertheless, he rang them at 9.50pm that night to invite them for a drink, while warning them: “You’ll have to forgive my night-time attire.”

Mrs McCann recalled: “We found Clement watching a cookery programme, dressed, as promised, in his nightshirt. It was so ordinary and comforting, a bit like going to see your grandad after a horrible day at school.

“He gave me one of his looks and a giant glass of brandy, and managed to get a smile out of me with his greeting: ‘So, Kate, which of the devout Catholic, alcoholic, depressed, nymphomaniac parts is correct?’

“His response to our catalogue of horrors was merely to raise an eyebrow. Clement had this way of making everything seem a little less terrible. When he heard about the [sniffer] dogs [which had indicated the scent of death in the McCann’s hire car], he remarked laconically, ‘So what are they going to do? Put them on the stand? One bark for yes, two for no?’

“He was right, of course; it was ridiculous. A couple of hours later, fortified by our brandies (it was my first-ever taste of the stuff), some useful snippets of advice and several amusing anecdotes, we left our friend feeling quite a bit better than we had when we’d arrived.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-warned-link-between-predatory-8194041

Police warned of link between 'predatory paedophile' Clement Freud and family of Madeleine McCann


22:51, 14 Jun 2016
Updated 22:51, 14 Jun 2016
By Sam Webb


Freud, who died in 2009 aged 84, is believed to have sexually abused girls as young as 11, a documentary has claimed

The late broadcaster and MP Sir Clement Freud, who is believed to have been a predatory paedophile, knew the family of Madeleine McCann - and police investigating the disappearance of the three-year-old may now investigate the link.

Freud, who died in 2009 aged 84, is believed to have sexually abused girls as young as 11, a documentary has claimed.

Detectives have been alerted to the fact that Freud had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, the resort where the three-year-old went missing in 2007, according to the Daily Telegraph .

In her book Madeleine, Kate recounts the occasion in July 2007 when the late broadcaster Sir Clement Freud, who had a house in Praia da Luz, invited the McCanns around for lunch and broke the ice by offering them a strawberry vodka.

She wrote: "I’m usually very intimidated by people with brains the size of planets but Clement was incredibly warm, funny and instantly likeable."

He prepared a meal of watercress and egg salad followed by a chicken and mushroom risotto for Kate and her husband Gerry. They described the meal as "bloody marvellous".

Clement cheered us up with his lugubrious wit, and would continue to do so by email after his return to England," she added.

Sylvia Woosley, now in her late seventies, said she was repeatedly assaulted by Freud over 60 years ago.

A second woman claimed the former star of Radio 4’s Just a Minute panel game brutally raped her aged 18 after years of grooming that included taking her on trips to the House of Commons.

Former Crown Prosecution Service chief Nazir Afzal told the ITV Exposure programme that Freud, who died in 2009 aged 84, would have been charged with child sex offences based on Sylvia’s case if he was still alive.

He said: “I would have no doubt there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Sir Clement Freud.”

Sylvia said the grooming began when Freud was 24 and she was 10 after her parents moved to the south of France where he was a hotel manager.

She claimed Freud, the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, first assaulted her as they sat on the back of a bus a year later.

Breaking down in tears, she recalled: “I was disgusted and felt helpless. I was feeling something was not quite right but I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t react in any way. I didn’t know what to do.”

Sylvia claims she felt unable to tell her mother about the incident and was later sent to live with Freud and his actress wife Jill in London in the early 1950s when the abuse began to escalate.

She said he attacked her in his bed one morning after Jill went to make breakfast and would regularly visit her room late at night to abuse her.

Sylvia said she left the family home after telling Freud’s nanny that he had assaulted her and was later accused by Jill of inventing the claims. She said: “I was left totally and utterly destroyed.”

Sylvia claimed he blamed her for the alleged abuse when she confronted him in the House of Commons when she was in her early 40s. “I said ‘why me?’

“He said I was a very sensual little girl.”

Sylvia said the making of the film had given her a sense of relief. She said: “It is the child in me that is speaking – the child that wants to be freed.”

The film also heard from a second alleged victim of Freud – who said she was also groomed and sexually abused by him.

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, described him as a “ruthless user” who was also a friend of her family. She said the alleged campaign of abuse began when she was aged 11 in the early 1970s, calling her a “special child” with “rare intelligence” and kissing her on the mouth.

When she was 14 he allegedly invited her and a friend to his home and asked them to undress. They refused and left.

The woman said he raped her four years later when he was aged 54 and she was 18 after they had dinner alone. She said: “He came down on me and I froze up with terror. I told him I didn’t want him to but he kept forcing me.” The attack left her bleeding for a week afterwards, she said.

Freud’s widow Jill, now 89, said in response to the film: “This is a very sad day for me. I was married to Clement for 58 years and loved him dearly. I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women. I sincerely hope they will now have some peace.”

Born in Berlin, Freud arrived in the UK in the 30s after his Jewish parents fled the Nazis.

He rose to fame alongside a bloodhound called Henry in a 60s TV ad for dog food Minced Morsels and became one of Britain’s first celebrity chefs.

After Army service, during which he was a liaison officer at the Nuremberg trials, he embarked on a political career, winning the Isle of Ely for the Liberals in 1973.

Knighted in 1987, he died at his desk in his London home while writing his weekly column for the Racing Post.

I don't suppose it's the same guy, but I seem to remember someone by the name of "Freud" is married to one of Murdoch's daughters. The McCanns seem to be acquainted somehow with some very prominent (notorious) people e.g. Gordon Brown. According to the second article above, K and G took up the old guy's invitation for a meal by bringing along the twins and three friends. I wonder how they feel tonight knowing the old guy has been exposed as a paedophile. I presume Clarence (or is he now "Clare"?) will be letting us know.

I'm finding it difficult to keep up-to-date with all the dead paedophile politicians (celebrities) being exposed lately. It's hard to believe they were not exposed while living. Then again we have the McCanns and how they are being "protected" and nothing matches that for unbelievable. I sometimes think it will take until they are dead and their grown children will have to face the exposure alone that their parents were involved in Madeleine's "disappearance".

Personally I think it will be no surprise at all to the McCanns.

Gordon Brown attended the funeral and is quoted singing his praises as also did Stephen Fry Missing People Charity Patron who attended funeral and sang his praises.


same old familiar names again and again

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/24/sir-clement-freud-funeral

2008 Clarence Mitchell given a job in Freud Communications, Mathew Freud Company

http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/clarence-mitchell-goes-to-work-for.html


Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Kate and Gerry McCann, has accepted a 12 month contract as a consultant with, "Freud Communications,"* a powerful public relations and communication agency, with clients like Pepsi, Weinstein Company and Sony, amongst others. Founded by Matthew Freud the agency, whose major shareholder is Francais Publicis, has offices in London, New York and Los Angeles.
In the United Kingdom, Freud Communications carries out public relations campaigns using, amongst other methods, editorial placement to obtain positive references in the media, for their clients, their policies and their products. Amongst the most recent successful campaigns, is the visit of the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, to China.

Clarence Mitchell, who still does not rule out the possibility of setting up his own agency, will focus on issues of crisis management and the media.
According to Clarence Mitchell, he will continue to advise the McCanns monthly on the case of their daughter Madeleine's disappearance.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/06/clement-freud-part-downfall/


Clement Freud, My Part in his Downfall 1

14 Jun, 2016 in Uncategorized by craig



Commenters on this blog directly caused the exposure of Clement Freud in the ITV story. I published an anodyne obituary in 2009 giving my memories of Freud. One commenter wrote:


He was a notorious old goat and his pursuit of young women could verge on the sinister. I met one of his young ‘victims’ who told me about a job interview with him turning into a very traumatic experience.

And a second wrote the startling


Writing as one of his 1000s of sexual ‘victims’,
still surviving, terrified as I write for fear he is not yet quite yet dead – the man was an evil, conniving,
ruthless user for his own bottomless ego of all he came into contact with.
Our children – boys and girls are all that much safer for his demise.
And that is just the tip of an iceberg of political and media dirty dealings that reaches into the heart of the broken Britain he has left behind him.
His family will now, unfortunately, reap the rage and revenge of those he destroyed and their much needed justice for his many heinous – still untold – actions.

Six years later I was contacted by a journalist working for ITV who had leads on Freud and looking for more evidence. He had dug up those comments on my blog. Using the magic of the internet, I was able to trace the last commenter and put them in touch, with their permission, with the ITV team.

I also told them an anecdote I myself recalled. I was a young First Year Rep on Dundee University Students Association Council while Clement Freud was Rector. One day the then President of the Students Association, Ian Morris, came out of his office in a terrible mood after a phone call from Freud, saying that Freud had asked him to line up female students for him and was trying to use him as “a pimp”. This was not paedophilia but it was unpleasant – Freud was 35 years older than the students he was targeting.

It then all went quiet for a year before ITV contacted me this morning to tell me the story was running.

It is hard to know what to make of Freud owning a holiday villa close to where Madeleine McCann disappeared. Clement was apparently not in Portugal at the time. When you add in the fact that the McCanns’ sleazy “spokesman”, Clarence Mitchell, works for Freud’s son Matthew, the coincidences do add up. I am not jumping to any conclusions at present. But I found the following fascinating.

Clement Freud assured Kate McCann she had nothing to fear from the cadaver dogs giving a positive response inside the McCann’s hire car, hired after Madeleine “disappeared”. They had no evidential value. “So what are they going to do? One bark for yes, two barks for no?” asked Freud.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1284246/paedophile-sir-clement-freud-had-a-villa-close-to-where-madeleine-mccann-went-missing-as-police-are-urged-to-probe-link/

NEW INFORMATION ‘Paedophile’ Sir Clement Freud had a villa close to where Madeleine McCann went missing as police are ‘urged to probe link’
The McCanns were invited to dinner with Freud after Madeleine went missing and are "horrified" by the discovery
BY MIKE SULLIVAN AND TOM TOWERS 15th June 2016, 12:24 am

‘PAEDOPHILE’ Sir Clement Freud had a villa in the resort Madeleine McCann went missing and befriended her parents in the weeks after.

Detectives investigating the three-year-old’s disappearance in Portugal in 2007 have been alerted to this new information and are being urged to assess it.

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

They were invited to his house twice after Madeleine vanished and kept in contact with Freud by phone and email.

Kate wrote in her book Madeleine: “I’m usually very intimidated by people with brains the size of planets but Clement was incredibly warm, funny and instantly likeable.”

He cooked a watercress and egg salad followed by a chicken and mushroom risotto which was “the best risotto we’ve ever tasted before or since.”

Kate and Gerry were two months into their search when they received a letter inviting them for a meal.

He invited them again in September but they cancelled because they had been named suspects.

However, they did go to his house for drinks later in the evening.

Kate wrote of the encounter: “He gave me one of his looks and a giant glass of brandy, and managed to get a smile out of me with his greeting: ‘So, Kate, which of the devout Catholic, alcoholic, depressed, nymphomaniac parts is correct?

“Clement cheered us up with his lugubrious wit, and would continue to do so by email after his return to England.”

His family, who include PR executive Matthew Freud, said that Freud was not in Portugal at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance and that they have not been contacted by police.

The widow of Sir Clement Freud has also expressed shock and apologised to Freud’s victims after discovering he was a child sex abuser who attacked two young girls over three decades.

Lady Freud, 88, who spoke before a TV documentary tonight, reveals how the Liberal MP and telly star targeted the pair from ages ten and 11.

One was left in tears after he raped her on her parents’ bed.

The other was once abused in his ­marital bed as his wife made breakfast for Freud, who died in 2009 aged 84.

Lady Freud – the actress Jill Raymond, who is mother of his five children, said: “I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has ­happened.”

Victims Sylvia Woosley, now in her late 70s, and an unnamed woman now in her 50s, were abused for up to nine years each after Freud befriended their parents.

Sylvia wept as she told ITV’s Exposure how he began molesting her in France in 1948, calling her his “special friend”.

At 14, she was sent to live in London with Freud, who by then had married, and was abused throughout her teens.

She believes Lady Freud did not know.

Sylvia said the abuse left her suicidal.

She added: “I just want to clear things up before I die. I want to die clean.”

The other woman said Freud posed as a father figure, but was a “ruthless user”.

After the rape, he callously told her: “You can stay there, my dear,” and went to watch a World Cup game on TV.

Freud is the latest in a string of ­household names unmasked as child abusers since Jimmy Savile in 2012.

He was North East Cambridgeshire MP from 1973 to 1987 and famously appeared with a hangdog expression in Winalot dog food adverts and on game shows.

Lady Freud accepted the claims and issued a statement of condolence for his victims, saying: “I sincerely hope they will now have some peace.”

She added: “This is a very sad day for me. I was married to Clement 58 years and loved him dearly.”

Interested: it was his son Matthew who was married to Elisabeth Murdoch but they divorced in 2014.

Well they are still looking for a Patsy , so will jump on bandwagonof anyone .,that could be used.I think we already have found that no one broke into said appt. not time either,and no o I cant see this as good omen for this case . joyce1938

joyce1938 wrote:Well they are still looking for a Patsy , so will jump on bandwagonof anyone .,that could be used.I think we already have found that no one broke into said appt. not time either,and no o I cant see this as good omen for this case . joyce1938

Well the person (Cassie Delaney) who wrote the article entitled "There's a new high-profile suspect in the Madeleine McCann case" at www.her.ie has identified the patsy as a "suspect".

I hope not, but I'm very much afraid that the UK investigation will close soon and this pervert will be fingered(used) as the "abductor".

It would be sickening if that is to become the case,eh ? hope not joyce1938

Are we seeing yet another patsy being edged towards the frame, or just another attempt to keep the McCanns in the limelight and pocket change?

In reality, Freud was 82 at the time of Madeleine’s parents leaving her babysitting the twins whilst they jollied with their buddies knocking back freebies…..

This makes him as likely a candidate for a suspect in her disappearance as was Raymond Hewlett, the disabled, wheelchair bound, cancer sufferer who somehow qualified as being capable of involvement…

In a wheelchair???

All donations to Kate and Gerry in Rothley...

A dead paedo with links to PDL is a good potential suspect.

An interesting link here about another dead paedo who seems to be being linked with the McCann case. There isn't even a photo of the boy he is thought to have killed; instead there is a nothing like her probably photoshopped one of Madeleine.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-to-pursue-dna-testing-and-conduct-new-searches-amid-fresh-leads-34792979.html

Did the McCanns know him before Madeleine disappeared I wonder?

fuzeta wrote:Did the McCanns know him before Madeleine disappeared I wonder?

I was wondering the same thing. Odd (strange?) that the McCanns (a couple of middle class doctors not previously known to the general public) had such immediate support from so many highly placed individuals and organizations (I'm thinking Gordon Brown, etc. here); there has to be a common denominator somewhere in this strange network.

As an aside, there has been "chatter" on twitter that there will be developments within the next 48 hours concerning Cliff Richard and CPS and also that there were allegations about Freud 12 years ago (before his death) but nothing was done. I find it particularly odd that Freud's widow appears to have accepted as fact what has recently been made public about her husband - it's as if she knew all along - no defense of her late husband at all.

My thoughts exactly Interested. There seems to have been many strange folk around PDL at the time. I went there years ago with my family and little Grandaughter and it seemed a very sleepy place to me. What made the McCanns and their strange group of friends go there I wonder. Too many coincidences and i am not a big believer in coincidences.

I HAVE JUST REMEMBER I DID A THREAD ON HIM,AT LEAST I THINK IT WAS ME.

Bit more added today.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3643373/PICTURED-sinister-holiday-villa-paedophile-MP-Clement-Freud-hosted-McCanns-weeks-Madeleine-vanished.html

"...a bit like going to see your granddad after a horrible day at school" Did she actually compare Madeleine's "disappearance" to a horrible day at school? Just as callous/vile as her husband saying it was like finding your school funds overdrawn and nothing of any value was taken.

interested wrote:"...a bit like going to see your granddad after a horrible day at school"  Did she actually compare Madeleine's "disappearance" to a horrible day at school?  Just as callous/vile as her husband saying it was like finding your school funds overdrawn and nothing of any value was taken.

Obviously a couple of strawberry Vodka's took the pain away

I don't recall Gerry mentioning any visit to Freud when he was keeping the world informed via his daily blog about all the minutiae (his lost wallet and how frequently they changed the twins' nappies, etc.). Perhaps he knew it wasn't something to brag about.