Maddie and man in mask
Sicko carried out 28 attacks
MADELEINE McCann could have been snatched by a sex beast wearing a surgical mask.
Police have discovered a man carried out up to 28 attacks within a 40-mile radius of the Portuguese apartment.
He crept into properties rented by families and many victims were British.
In one case, a seven-year-old girl from the UK woke to find him lying next to her in bed wearing a medical mask.
A chilling reconstruction features in the final episode of Netflix’s eight-part documentary The Disappearance Of Madeleine McCann.
Investigators Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, who penned a book about the case, said the masked intruder was one of at least 12 suspects police are probing.
Anthony said: “From what the little girls told their parents afterwards, the man had come into the room wearing a sort of medical mask. He had a funny smell.’’ Robbyn said the holiday company that operated the Ocean Club resort where the McCanns were staying had refused to comment on whether or not they knew of these sexual assaults.
She said the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had declined to comment on why British holidaymakers had not been warned.
Of the McCann case, Robbyn told the documentary: “Would they have left their children alone had they known there was a sexual predator about?”
Other suspects include a scruffy man who was living in a van in Praia da Luz when Madeleine vanished.
Locals recognised him from an e-fit drawn of a prowler.
And a mum found a man standing in the living room with her daughter, aged three. As she ran towards him he fled.