The latest McCann suspect: Scotland Yard has revealed vital new information about a suspect wanted in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

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 12/12/2016 12:26 GMT  |  Updated 12/12/2016 17:43 GMT  



Madeleine McCann News: Son Of Dead Paedophile Suspect Raymond Hewlett ‘Thought He Was Being Watched’

'If it’s connected to Madeleine it’s the biggest waste of money I’ve heard of.'

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     By Sara C Nelson
  
  

The son of a paedophile who made a deathbed confession he knew what happened to Madeleine McCann has claimed he thought “someone was watching” his family.

Raymond Hewlett lived just an hour from the Portuguese resort where Madeleine disappeared from. Just ahead of his death of throat cancer in 2010, he wrote to his estranged son Wayne. 

Hewlett Snr, whose past includes a strong of child sex convictions and three jail terms, denied having anything to do with the disappearance of the toddler but said he knew she had been “stolen to order” by a gang who kidnap children for wealthy couples unable to have their own or adopt.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/madeleine-mccann-news-son-of-dead-paedophile-suspect-raymond-hewlett-thought-he-was-being-watched
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As I said up-thread, this latest crap is Hewlett and he who can't be named, rolled into one convenient one size fits all package.

What's next on the agenda?

Verdi wrote:

Bloody hell - he's looking a bit rough!  Life takes it's toll I guess .

"errr I can't recall the police ever being so specific about an individual, he's not been named"

That's not specific then is it Clarence, you utter waste of space.   

It is clear from the evidence that Madeleine died.  Peter Hyatt's analysis concluded that the McCann's disposed of her corpse and know that she will not be found.

So this new story IMO, is dis-information.  But why ?

Tony Bennett was hinting that it could be (another) attempt to "shut the case down", with some sort of conclusion.  I am more of the mind that this dis-information is a muddle up of some sort.  Are there any other factors in the Madeleine case that have elements that are common to the dis-information just launched?  Are there any links to Germany? - Apart from Michael Shrimpton's potty claims about German Intelligence that is.   What information is currently floating about that might be very dangerous?  - Has somebody of influence recently taken an interest in the case?

There must be a motive for putting out this narrative.  It was peppered all over the front pages.

Respect !

There is always a hidden reason for any blitz of media coverage about the case of Madeleine McCann.  Timely and irrelevant.

I have already expressed my views throughout the thread but I have wondered why the McCanns, aided and abetted by their official/unofficial spokesman Clarence Mitchell, took their road show over to Germany during the summer of 2007.

Spain yes, it's just across the boarder but Germany?  A hot spot for paedophilia perhaps or Angela Merkel a force to reckon with.  She was/is a very powerful woman.

Clarence Mitchell played a very big part in this theatrical production - and still does it would seem.

He is too adamant to be believable.

Merkel leaves office in Autumn 2021 so maybe rushing it through if linked.

Sickened at how deep this is going to have to go. The tower will fall though, it always does. So currently trying to fit the evidence around a suspect instead of vice versa. How dirty and dismal does this get? No fan of a f r that is incarcerated for his crimes, but if it took them 13 years...

would it perhaps have anything to do with the serious advancements happening in DNA that are starting to become mainstream now. Becomes harder to refuse as less than mainstream. They need to tie this up in the next 2 years.

Maddie murder police lay bare the child sex crime past of Jaguar-driving wannabe playboy who was actually a drug-dealing drifter and rapist - as it's revealed he could be out of jail on parole in days

• Christian Brueckner spent 12 years pursuing a bohemian lifestyle in resort town of Praia da Luz, Portugal
  
• He left to return to his native Germany in 2007 - shortly after Madeleine McCann's disappearance on May 3
  
• Alleged to have told a drinking partner he 'knew all about' Maddie in a bar on kidnapping's 10th anniversary
  
• Also claimed he showed his companion a video of himself raping an American widow in Portugal in 2005
  
• Now 43, Brueckner is in a German prison serving a seven-year sentence for a sex crime
  
• Revealed he has been on police radar for more than two decades and has 'as many as 17 criminal convictions'
  
  
  
  

By Sam Greenhill and Claire Duffin For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:08, 4 June 2020 | Updated: 01:12, 5 June 2020





The new Madeleine McCann suspect was unmasked last night as it emerged he had been on the police radar for more than two decades - and he could be let out of jail on parole within days.


As prosecutors labelled him a ‘multiple sexual predator’, it was claimed Christian Brueckner, 43, had been convicted of a child sex offence in his native Germany when aged just 17.


Yet the drifter, who reportedly has as many as 17 criminal convictions, was apparently overlooked by Portuguese police.
It also emerged yesterday that he had been convicted of raping a 72-year-old US widow in her Algarve home 18 months before Madeleine disappeared.


Brueckner is now the focus of the 13-year investigation into the disappearance of the three-year-old from the Algarve.
Yesterday a spokesman for her parents Kate and Gerry McCann hailed the ‘significant’ breakthrough. But they faced renewed anguish as German prosecutors stated they believed their daughter was dead and also suggested officers knew how she died.


Brueckner is behind bars in Germany. But it was claimed that he could walk free within days, as he will become eligible for parole on Sunday.
 
Cruising the Algarve in his classic Jaguar, Christian Brueckner posed as a fun-loving playboy.

The German drifter spent 12 years pursuing a bohemian lifestyle – but not long after Madeleine McCann vanished in 2007, he left Portugal and returned to his homeland.

It was in a German bar exactly ten years later – on the anniversary of the three-year-old’s disappearance – that Becks-drinking Brueckner turned the spotlight on himself.

As Madeleine’s face flashed up on the bar’s television screen, he reportedly turned to his drinking partner and claimed he ‘knew all about’ the case. He is alleged to have said something to suggest he knew what had happened to Maddie, according to a report on Sky News.

Later, it is claimed, he showed his companion a video of himself raping an elderly American widow in Portugal in 2005. The friend contacted German police.

Brueckner – who chose a moniker for his Facebook page that means ‘madness’ in German – swiftly became of interest to the detectives probing Madeleine’s disappearance. It was three more years before his name became public.

Photographs obtained by the Mail show blue-eyed Brueckner enjoying a night out in a Hanover bar in 2011. Wearing a pinstriped blazer, the self-styled Romeo appeared to be enjoying himself with a group of friends. One picture shows him cradling a small dog.




Last night one friend told the Mail that Brueckner’s ‘life situation’ was ‘a bit chaotic’, but added that ‘if everything is true then he was indeed a master of illusion’.

In fact, despite the Renaissance man image he seemed desperate to cultivate, Brueckner, 43, has long tried to hide a gruesome life of crime ranging from petty thefts to horrific sexual assaults.

As more details come to light over the new prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, it also emerged that:

• Portuguese police face serious questions as it is revealed that the man who may have taken Maddie spent 12 years in Portugal before her disappearance committing serious sexual and drugs crimes without ever being arrested;
  
• German police were told about his bar chat about Maddie with a friend in 2017 - but three years on have finally confirmed he is a suspect;
  
• His VW campervan and Jaguar have been located by police who believe one or both were - but a lack of DNA evidence means a 10,000 euro reward has been put up for any information that leads to his conviction;
  
• Portuguese detective says 'Christian B' was dismissed as a suspect in 2008 - but a discussion 'years later' on an online forum about Maddie and her abduction was brought to the attention of police;
  
• Her parents Gerry and Kate McCann have not given up hope that their daughter is alive but are 'realistic' that she might not be, their spokesman Clarence Mitchell said today;
  
• Downing Street said the latest developments appeared to be significant and added that Number 10's thoughts were with the McCann family 'who have had to endure so much'.
  
  
  
  

Born in 1976, Brueckner was raised ‘in a home’ according to German news magazine Focus.

He committed his first burglary in his home town of Wuerzburg in Bavaria when he was just 15.

Within two years, he was convicted of sexually abusing a child, earning him a two-year youth sentence in 1994. A report by Germany’s Der Spiegel claimed he served only part of this term.

Brueckner went on to notch up convictions for drug dealing, driving under the influence and without a licence, the news magazine reported. As a young man, Brueckner is said to have dreamed of emigrating with his girlfriend of the time. After turning 18 – and acquiring a driver’s licence – he took off to the Algarve town of Lagos with his girlfriend, the German newspaper Bild reported.

It quotes him as saying: ‘We didn’t know anything about Portugal. We went to Lagos because we liked the name so much. We had a tent with us and camped in the wild.’

He eventually settled in Praia da Luz – the picturesque resort where the McCanns took their three children on holiday.

Brueckner stayed there for 12 years, telling families he was working as a caterer and odd-job man. In truth, he was dealing cannabis, trafficking drugs and burgling holiday homes and hotel rooms.

He was briefly locked up for diesel theft, and is also said to have traded passports and stolen goods, according to Bild.

He initially lived in a dilapidated house accessed by a dirt road. ‘In terms of furnishings, it was a typical bachelor’s apartment,’ said one acquaintance. After a decade on the Algarve, Brueckner burgled a 72-year-old American widow and subjected her to a violent sexual assault, which he recorded on camera.

By this time Brueckner lived in a rented whitewashed villa on a remote hillside – above the beach where the McCanns played during their week’s holiday.

Neighbours described him as an ‘angry’ car dealer who sped along country roads. They say that when he vanished, he left behind a collection of exotic clothing, including wigs and fancy dress. Brueckner left Portugal after Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007. The previous month, he had moved out of the villa and into a VW Westfalia campervan. Police have now linked this vehicle to Maddie’s disappearance.

Brueckner also retained his prized 1993 Jaguar XJR6. Scotland Yard has now revealed that the day after Madeleine vanished, Brueckner re-registered the classic British car to someone else, even though he was still driving it.

After returning to Germany, Brueckner continued stealing and drug-dealing. In October 2011, a district court in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein sentenced him to one year and nine months for a crime involving ‘narcotics in large quantities’. The term was initially suspended.

By 2014, Brueckner was living in Braunschweig, near Hanover, where he boasted to friends he had opened a local shop. He claimed he worked from seven in the morning until midnight but the business, along with his relationship, failed and he began to hit the bottle and live on benefits.

In 2016 he was sentenced to one year and three months’ imprisonment for ‘sexually abusing a child in the act of procuring himself and possessing child pornography’.

After his bar-room claims about Madeleine in May 2017, Brueckner appears to have returned to the Algarve. Within a month he was held under a European Arrest Warrant and extradited back to Germany.

That September, he was sentenced to 15 months in prisonfor the sexual abuse of a child according to Thomas Klinge, spokesman for the Hanover public prosecutor’s office.

After his release in August 2018, he later told a court, he was homeless, spending nights sleeping on park benches. He travelled to Milan – but within a month he was arrested and extradited to Germany yet again, this time to face trial for drugs offences.

In October 2018, he was convicted of dealing drugs and sent to prison in Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, where he remains to this day. Prosecutors also had enough evidence to charge him with the horrific sex attack he had filmed 13 years earlier.

His rape trial took place last December. Reports of the proceedings descibe Brueckner as ‘eloquent’ and state he leafed through legal texts as evidence was heard. He called what had happened to the traumatised pensioner a ‘bad deed’, but denied any role in it.

In court he repeatedly mentioned the names of ex-lovers, insisting they would testify as to the ‘normalcy’ of his sex life.

He branded witnesses as liars and claimed that DNA from a strand of hair used to convict him must have ended up on the victim’s bed after he had petted one of her cats. Yet as so often before, the court rejected his denials and Brueckner was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years, pending the outcome of an appeal.

One trial witness described Brueckner as someone who ‘always paid attention to his appearance’.

As the Madeleine case enters a dramatic new phase, there will certainly be a lot more attention paid to him now.
 
New Madeleine McCann sex offender suspect had been on police radar for 'more than two decades' and 'has as many as 17 criminal convictions'

The new Madeleine McCann suspect was unmasked last night as it emerged he had been on the police radar for more than two decades.

As prosecutors labelled him a ‘multiple sexual predator’, it was claimed Christian Brueckner, 43, had been convicted of a child sex offence in his native Germany when aged just 17.

Yet the drifter, who reportedly has as many as 17 criminal convictions, was apparently overlooked by Portuguese police. It also emerged yesterday that he had been convicted of raping a 72-year-old US widow in her Algarve home 18 months before Madeleine disappeared. Brueckner is now the focus of the 13-year investigation into the disappearance of the three-year-old from the Algarve.

Yesterday a spokesman for her parents Kate and Gerry McCann hailed the ‘significant’ breakthrough. But they faced renewed anguish as German prosecutors stated they believed their daughter was dead and also suggested officers knew how she died.

Brueckner is behind bars in Germany. But it was claimed that he could walk free within days, as he will become eligible for parole on Sunday.

Brueckner is in jail in Kiel, northern Germany. But one German media report yesterday suggested he was on the verge of getting parole, having served two thirds of his sentence. According to a German newspaper, he becomes eligible for freedom from Sunday, if the Federal Court of Justice in Germany decides to grant him parole.

On Wednesday, Scotland Yard, which has been carrying out a £12million review of the Madeleine case, dropped the bombshell revelation there was a new suspect, as German police launched an appeal via that country’s equivalent of CrimeWatch.

Yesterday Mr Wolters said: ‘We think that Madeleine McCann is dead and are appealing for witnesses. The 43-year-old is a multiple sexual predator already convicted of crimes against little girls.’ He suggested police had determined the method used to kill the three-year-old and said others would have ‘concrete knowledge’ of how she died and where her body was hidden.

Scotland Yard still insists that it is a missing person inquiry and the McCanns say they have never given up hope she will be found alive.

Madeleine disappeared while her parents, from Rothley in Leicestershire, were having a meal with friends at a tapas bar close to their apartment. Portuguese police were facing serious questions yesterday about why Brueckner was not identified earlier as a suspect given he had child sex abuse convictions dating back to 1994.

He lived two miles from the resort where she vanished and phone data indicates he was in the area on the night. If Portuguese officers had done basic checks of known sex offenders his name could have emerged within months. The ex-lead Portuguese investigator on the case, Goncalo Amaral, has claimed the suspect had been ruled out of the inquiry in 2008.

But he allegedly came back into the frame after a conversation in an internet chatroom about Madeleine and her abduction. Yesterday it emerged Brueckner only became a suspect for Scotland Yard in 2017 when he is said to have told a friend at a bar he ‘knew all about’ what had happened to Madeleine.

According to Sky News, Brueckner was prompted to make the comment when her face flashed up on a TV screen in a German pub during a report on a UK appeal for information on the tenth anniversary of her disappearance. A spokesman for the McCanns said: ‘This would appear to be the most significant lead they are trying to close down in 13 years.’

German police said their phones ‘rang hot’ after the appeal went live. Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell, leading the Met Police investigation, said more than 270 calls and emails had been received.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8389759/Madeleine-McCann-suspect-posed-Jaguar-driving-playboy-actually-drug-dealing-drifter.html
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Geeez give me strength.  What a load of old !

I need to rest - more than enough for one day.

I decided to delete the response I just drafted. 
I would really appreciate receiving the idiot's guide to libellous posts before joining the conversation about today's news on the "new lead". I understand that you (Jill or Verdi and the legal eagles in this team) might not have time to tutor me. Thanks anyway.

Verdi wrote:The world is awash with fake news 

I don't think comparing our current mainstream media with Stalinist Russia news organisations is far from the truth.

They should be renamed TASS.

The Telegraph gets a bit closer to the facts.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/04/madeleine-mccann-prime-suspect-discounted-portuguese-police/

[NO Apologies for putting it in full.   It may be my free article this month.]

The prime suspect in Madeleine McCann's abduction was discounted by Portuguese police just months after her disappearance, it can be revealed.
Christian Brückner, 43, a convicted child sex offender, drug dealer and burglar from Germany, has been identified as the alleged kidnapper.
Brückner is now suspected of murdering Madeleine after abducting her from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.
Thirteen years on from her disappearance, it can now be revealed that Brückner was investigated by Portugal's Policia Judiciaria at the time but was ruled out by detectives on the Algarve.
At around the same time, Portuguese police declared Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine's parents, to be their main "arguidos" or "official suspects".  

The Policia Judiciaria, under the leadership of controversial chief Goncalo Amaral, spent months mistakenly trying to prove that the McCanns had accidentally killed Madeleine inside the apartment and attempted to cover it up.
The investigation was prematurely closed down in July 2008, 14 months after the three-year-old had gone missing.
Brückner spent the next decade at liberty, and it was not until three years ago that Scotland Yard were tipped off as to his possible links with the unsolved crime.
It also emerged on Thursday that Brückner, currently in prison after being convicted in 2019 for a rape in Praia da Luz that happened in 2005, has sex offence convictions going back to 1994.  
In December, he was jailed in Germany for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American tourist in Praia da Luz. But by then Scotland Yard were already treating him as the key suspect in the McCann case following information they had received in May 2017 following an international appeal to mark 10 years since her disappearance.
It is alleged that, after seeing Madeleine's face flash up on a TV screen in a bar, Brückner bragged to a friend that he knew what had happened to her. The associate is understood to have informed German police, who passed the information to Scotland Yard.

On Thursday, German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters said they were now treating it as a murder investigation.
He told a press conference: "We think that Madeleine McCann is dead, and are appealing for witnesses. The 43-year-old suspect is a multiple sexual predator already convicted of crimes against little girls."
A spokesman for the McCann family said they hoped their daughter was still alive but were realistic about her fate.
Following Wednesday's renewed appeal for information about the case, Scotland Yard said they had received more than 270 calls from members of the public.
DCI Mark Cranwell, from Operation Grange, said: "We are pleased with the information coming in, and it will be assessed and prioritised. We continue to urge anyone with information to come forward and speak with us."
The failure to fully investigate Brückner in 2007 was the first of a number of missed opportunities to link him to the case.
In the so-called "golden hours" after the initial report of Madeleine's abduction, crucial evidence was lost when police failed to seal off the apartment and declare it a crime scene. At least 50 people were allowed to troop through the flat, destroying any crucial forensic clues that might have been obtained.

Portuguese police officers also contaminated the area by failing to wear protective clothing, even smoking and flicking ash on the floor, according to reports at the time.
In addition, detectives did not send Madeleine's bed linen for forensic analysis and it was eventually stripped by hotel staff and washed with other guests' laundry.
The lack of forensic evidence proved a huge stumbling block for detectives investigating the case in subsequent years, and may still end up making it difficult to secure any conviction.
In 2013, police in Germany were also reportedly tipped off about Brückner's possible links with the case following a conversation in an internet chatroom which had aroused suspicion. By that stage, he was back in Germany, where he was serving a prison sentence for drug dealing and sex offences.
In the same year, Scotland Yard upgraded its Operation Grange review into a full-blown criminal investigation and announced that it was looking at 36 potential suspects.
It is understood that, while Brückner was known to the Metropolitan Police, he was not among the list of official suspects at that stage.
Detectives from Scotland Yard are thought to have spoken to Brückner in prison but, with no more evidential leads to pursue, decided to go public with an appeal for information.
[my emphases]


SO
He WAS identified by the PJ and discounted / eliminated
He HAS already been spoken to by Grange but they have nothing more to go on


Perhaps if they did what the PJ did and looked at the case a whole, in the round, as a blank canvas, blue sky thinking, outside the box, they might come to the same conclusion as did the PJ.


Brückner was not involved in the Abduction,  . . . because there wasn't one

Telegraph wrote:The Policia Judiciaria, under the leadership of controversial chief Goncalo Amaral, spent months mistakenly trying to prove that the McCanns had accidentally killed Madeleine inside the apartment and attempted to cover it up.

They are sure about that are they?

I would like to think that OG have chosen to go live with this new old suspect in order to spring a trap. On the very first post in this thread there is mention that OG were looking at CB and "and a second, perhaps lesser, undisclosed theory which is said to be the subject of a delicate operation overseas".

As yet I haven't seen any speculation as to what this delicate operation is. Of course if they were clever they may be fishing to get the real perpetrators to expose some facts that would help them make a conviction in another direction. A conviction that would be VERY delicate indeed.

But of course that's just wishful thinking.  I still would like to know what the "delicate operation overseas" is...…...

All the reports I have seen so far keep coming back to a phrase similar to
"What happened in the apartment THAT DAY..."
which is absolutely perfect for the maintenance of the myth.

Very clever.

BlueBag wrote:

Telegraph wrote:The Policia Judiciaria, under the leadership of controversial chief Goncalo Amaral, spent months mistakenly trying to prove that the McCanns had accidentally killed Madeleine inside the apartment and attempted to cover it up.

They are sure about that are they?

Well quite.

And he didn't.  He was of the opinion that it had been a pure accidental death.  Nothing about an accidental Killing

Brief précis from the papers reports:

Born 1976
First burglary c. 1991 Germany
1994	Two year youth sentence, sex abuse child. Served part
?	Convictions for drugs, DUI, Driving without licence
1995	Start of 12 years in Portugal
	Catering, odd jobs, cars, drugs, burglary
? Briefly locked up	Diesel theft, passports, stolen goods?
?	Went back to Germany for a while, then returned to same villa
2005	Rape of pensioner
Apr 2007 (or 2006)	Moved out of villa into campervan
May 2007	Disappearance of MM
May 2007	Jaguar car re-registered to someone else in Germany
2007	Returned to Germany
2008	Dismissed as suspect by PJ
Oct 2011	21 months (suspended) for  drugs
2014	Opened shop
2014	Shop failed, drinking, living on benefits
2016*	15 months for child sex abuse & child porn
May 2017	Bar room claims. Police told about chat in bar
2017	Returned to Algarve, extradited back
Sept 2017*	15 months  child sex abuse. Released Aug 2018
Aug 2018	Milan, extradited back, drugs charges
Oct 2018	? length sentence drugs
Dec 2019 (or maybe 2018)	7½ years for rape of pensioner in 2005

 
·      Dates wrong? One or other presumably.
 
‘Brueckner is in jail in Kiel, northern Germany. But one German media report yesterday suggested he was on the verge of getting parole, having served two thirds of his sentence. According to a German newspaper, he becomes eligible for freedom from Sunday, if the Federal Court of Justice in Germany decides to grant him parole.’
 
The rape investigation/conviction was presumably due to his own video evidence.
 
No way has he served two thirds of a 7½ year sentence, whether it was 2018 or 2019.
 
An accomplished burglar, just missed the camera, passports etc all clearly visible in 5A. 
 
If I went into a bar and bragged ‘I know all about the case’, would that make me a suspect?

Won't let me edit.

Rape 2 Sept 2005
Court case 4 December 2019

(From PeterMac's earlier posting of the court case)

It would also be very interesting to know the ages of the children involved in his previous sex convictions.

PeterMac wrote:All the reports I have seen so far keep coming back to a phrase similar to
"What happened in the apartment THAT DAY..."
which is absolutely perfect for the maintenance of the myth.

Very clever.

I went over some old ground through the early hours of the morning (lockdown isn't doing anything positive for my sleep pattern) and I watched a YouTube video, where Martin Brunt is interviewing Colin Sutton and  Danie Krugal. Colin Sutton repeated that the reason why he didn't take on the McCann case was, that he was told that he couldn't investigate the McCanns, but only investigate an ABDUCTION. So, we already know where this "new evidence" is going, don't we. 

Now I am off to make some patsy...……….opps, I mean PASTY. Sorry, typo

The Parole stuff feels like it might be part of the stuff needed to further some other aim, like justifying rushing a trial through or getting people even angrier to distract from something else.

Verdi wrote:This blitz is going to lead to another decade of myths and pure invention.

I thought, rather hoped, we'd gone way past that stage - at least here on CMOMM.

Now they are taking the myth big-time.  I bet they're laughing their sox off!

yeah, this is another 10 years of chip paper wrappings

Verdi wrote:

Bloody hell - he's looking a bit rough!  Life takes it's toll I guess .

Looks like a "Washed out old r**tboy!"

DID HE TAKE GERMAN MADDIE TOO?

Madeleine McCann suspect is linked to unsolved disappearance of five-year-old German girl in woods in 2015 - as chilling online chats reveal he wanted to 'capture something small and use it for days'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8391315/Police-link-jailed-paedophile-abduction-girl-aged-five-2015.html

Richard D. Hall wrote:

Verdi wrote:

Bloody hell - he's looking a bit rough!  Life takes it's toll I guess .

"errr I can't recall the police ever being so specific about an individual, he's not been named"

That's not specific then is it Clarence, you utter waste of space.   

It is clear from the evidence that Madeleine died.  Peter Hyatt's analysis concluded that the McCann's disposed of her corpse and know that she will not be found.

So this new story IMO, is dis-information.  But why ?

Tony Bennett was hinting that it could be (another) attempt to "shut the case down", with some sort of conclusion.  I am more of the mind that this dis-information is a muddle up of some sort.  Are there any other factors in the Madeleine case that have elements that are common to the dis-information just launched?  Are there any links to Germany? - Apart from Michael Shrimpton's potty claims about German Intelligence that is.   What information is currently floating about that might be very dangerous?  - Has somebody of influence recently taken an interest in the case?

There must be a motive for putting out this narrative.  It was peppered all over the front pages.

"I am more of the mind that this dis-information is a muddle up of some sort.  Are there any other factors in the Madeleine case that have elements that are common to the dis-information just launched?  Are there any links to Germany? - Apart from Michael Shrimpton's potty claims about German Intelligence that is.   What information is currently floating about that might be very dangerous?  - Has somebody of influence recently taken an interest in the case?

There must be a motive for putting out this narrative.  It was peppered all over the front pages."

Armchair-defective wrote:Does anyone know if any of the phone numbers mentioned in the German appeal been seen before in the files?

 If not it would mean German police somehow accessed phone records the Portuguese did not. All very strange!

'In addition, he almost certainly used the Portuguese mobile number + 351 912 730 680 ....The participant used the Portuguese phone number + 351 916 510 683. The user of this number is considered an important witness ''

Edit - I searched the files. Maybe these are a match.

679 to 680 - Witness statement of Jose Carlos Fernandes da Silva 2007.05.08
681 to 683 - Witness statement of Auzela Tanta Damiao Andre Bingui 2007.05.08


 So they KNOW the names of this witnesses, so what's the point?

I don't understand how you found those statements, I can see there is a phone number on each but they have been redacted, is there some other way to see the numbers?

talby66 wrote:

Armchair-defective wrote:Does anyone know if any of the phone numbers mentioned in the German appeal been seen before in the files?

 If not it would mean German police somehow accessed phone records the Portuguese did not. All very strange!

'In addition, he almost certainly used the Portuguese mobile number + 351 912 730 680 ....The participant used the Portuguese phone number + 351 916 510 683. The user of this number is considered an important witness ''

Edit - I searched the files. Maybe these are a match.

679 to 680 - Witness statement of Jose Carlos Fernandes da Silva 2007.05.08
681 to 683 - Witness statement of Auzela Tanta Damiao Andre Bingui 2007.05.08


 So they KNOW the names of this witnesses, so what's the point?

I don't understand how you found those statements, I can see there is a phone number on each but they have been redacted, is there some other way to see the numbers?

Those are page numbers not phone numbers.