Letter from PeterMac to Operation Grange dated 6th May re: Bernt Stellander, The Foreign Detective's, new book 'The Sudden Impulse'

Gentlemen,
May we assume you are aware of the recently published book in Portuguese and English :-
The Sudden Impulse, by Bernt Stellander, available from the publishers
Modocromia,  [email:  modocromia.editora@gmail.com] 
in which he details an operation he conducted over many years, finding the site of Madeleine’s grave and CRUCIALLY, filming the McCanns and their friends visiting it to check on several occasions, when he had anonymously alerted them to the possibility that it had been found.
That film will shortly be released on websites set up for the purpose.

The press in Germany and elsewhere has run the story of the launch of the book, and of the Q&A session afterwards.
The British Press has of course not referred to it even obliquely, in line with the very obvious gagging order which has clearly been in place for a long time, and which may even control your activity.
Whether you are permitted to “investigate” is unclear.

I do not need to point out that this information is in line with the PJ’s investigation and the decisions of the Appeal and the Supreme Courts of Portugal and the ECHR,- who all concluded that there was no abduction, and that the parents concealed the body,  but I do so, in order that when I receive your automatically generated acknowledgement it will be clear that the information was in your hands for any future FIO requests about the way in which the Operation has been directed.

It incidentally makes the “Fund” a very simple case of Fraud, an offence known to English Law, and committed in England.

You may wish to draw this to the attention of your Commanding Officer.

Yours sincerely
Peter MacLeod
retired Police Superintendent - Nottingham 1972-2000
[my name will be in your files as having sent large amounts of documentation over the years]

copied to various other investigators

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