A convicted paedophile thought to be part of a child sex ring linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is being extradited to Britain. Roderick MacDonald, 77, was arrested on the Maltese island of Gozo after he fled the UK while he was on licence following his conviction for molesting two girls, five and seven, in Brighton in 2012. The former oil worker was reportedly living in the Algarve when Madeleine disappeared from the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday. The serial sex offender appeared in court in Malta on Monday after Britain secured a European Arrest Warrant and did not oppose immediate extradition to the UK.
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Roderick MacDonald has been arrested and is to be extradited to Britain
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He may have been living in Portugal at the time of Madeleine's disappearance
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MacDonald is a convicted paedophile for crimes in Australia and Britain
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He was arrested in Malta on Monday and approved for extradition yesterday
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International Arrest Warrant used after he fled following conviction for molesting children in Brighton
Madeleine went missing from a resort in the Algarve, @placeholder in 2007