A POCKMARKED prowler with an acne-scarred face was spotted lurking near the Madeleine McCann's holiday flat in the days before she was snatched, a documentary claims.
He was seen by two holidaymakers loitering in the lane outside apartment 5A at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz.
The sightings are included in Netflix's hit series The Disappearance Of Medeleine McCann, which has had viewers hooked since it was released last week.
A 12-year-old girl told detectives she saw a thin man with a badly pockmarked face near the apartment om two occasions on April 30 and May 2, 2007.
She said: "The man seemed to be looking at the balcony of the ground floor apartment. He was wearing a black jacket and leaning against the wall."
And a young British mum who was staying at the Ocean Club also saw a prowler with "ugly pockmarked skin" lurking in the road outside the McCanns' apartment on April 29, 2007.
She saw him again on May 2, the day before Madeleine vanished.
She said: "I was walking along the road with my daughter. I grabbed her hand and pulled her towards me because for some reason the man unnerved me.
"He was standing on the opposite side of the road to the apartment. I would describe him as very ugly, pitted skin with a large nose."
SUSPECT NEVER FOUND
Investigators believed both witnesses saw the same potential suspect – but he was never located.
In 2009, The Sun revealed how the young mum had reported her sighting to her local force in Wiltshire, who passed it to police in Leicestershire where the McCanns live.
She said she heard nothing back, and there were questions raised over whether the information was ever forwarded to the Portuguese police and what action they took to find him.
Maddie, three, disappeared from her family's ground-floor holiday apartment while parents Kate and Gerry were dining at a nearby tapas restaurant in the Algarve resort.
Yesterday we told how a British gran who saw a "scruffy weirdo" lurking near Madeleine's room believes he was the "lookout" for a child trafficking gang.
Her description was similar to one given by Jane Tanner, a holiday pal of Maddie’s parents who saw a man carrying a barefooted child in pyjamas on the night Maddie vanished.
The eight-part Netflix documentary features 40 experts and key figures in world's most famous missing persons case.
It details how bungling cops wrongly tried to pin the blame on Kate and Gerry, and runs through the various theories on what happened to three-year-old Madeleine in May 2007.
And it sensationally claims Maddie may still be alive – and explains how Portugal is a prime target for traffickers because its location allows abducted children to be instantly taken overseas.
Maddie's parents Kate and Gerry refused to take part amid fears it could "hamper" the search for their daughter, who would now be aged 15.
Sketches of another creepy suspect seen lurking near the holiday flats
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