Hewlett speaks another truth

Raymond Hewlett is alleged to have been staying around an hour's drive from the McCanns' holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal when she vanished on May 3, 2007.

The McCanns' investigation team wants to interview the 64-year-old in the next few days in the hope he can shed some light on her disappearance.

A former soldier who met Hewlett at a campsite in Morocco in May 2007 told the Sunday Mirror he admitted parking a van close to the McCann's complex on several occasions.

Peter Verran, 46, said: "He brought Madeleine up straight away. He said his three-year-old daughter looked like her.

"He was worried that because there had been reports that Madeleine may have been spirited away to Morocco, people might think his child was her. Then he suddenly said, 'Madeleine's not in Morocco'.

"I asked him what he meant and he said he knew Praia Da Luz really well. He knew the Ocean Club complex where the McCanns had been staying.

"He said he'd been there many times and had often parked his van close to the apartment.

"He said he knew the layout of the place, the flat and the restaurant where the McCanns and their friends had been eating when Maddie disappeared.

"He had a lot of detail about the layout. He said there was no way that the child could be taken without the parents seeing. He said they were lying."


This has been reported on Sky News.

I don't doubt him for a minute. He knows the layout, and the last paragraph speaks volumes. I think he is innocent though, because he would have not bothered to say anything to someone if he were involved.

Gerry and Kate may yet be undone The Tapas Nine have some serious confessing to do.

Ex-Cop: 'I Want To See McCanns In Court'

From Sky News

The disgraced former police chief who investigated the disappearance of Madeleine McCann said he is going to fight legal action from her parents.

Kate and Gerry McCann announced this weekend they are to sue Goncalo Amaral for defamation after he claimed in a book and series of interviews that they were involved in the little girl's death.

The couple, from Rothley, Leicestershire, said they are taking action because his claims that Madeleine is dead are hampering the search for their daughter.

His comments had also caused "indescribable devastation and suffering" to their lives, they said.

But Mr Amaral, who was in charge when the McCanns were made official suspects and was later removed from the case, said he plans to counter-sue the pair.


So this is where the Find Madeleine Fund gets spent? Or are they using their own money for this?

McCanns To Sue Ex-Police Chief Over 'Slurs'

Gerald and Kate McCann are to sue Goncalo Amaral about his "slurs"

From Sky News:

In a statement, they said: "We - together with our three children Madeleine, Sean and Amelie - are taking this legal action against Goncalo Amaral over his entirely unfounded and grossly defamatory claims - made in all types of media, both within Portugal and beyond - that Madeleine is not only dead, but that we, her parents, were somehow involved in concealing her body."

Full story here

The McCann Documentary as seen on Channel 4

This is the McCann authorised documentary, which was shown on Channel 4 on Thursday night, the 7th of May.

Billed as

Madeleine Was Here

How do the McCanns deal with the pain of not knowing what has happened to their daughter? And how do they try to create a normal life for the sake of Madeleine's brother and sister, four-year-old…

You may wish to watch the others here on this blog first and then watch this. So far we have had the documentary from the Portuguese Police chief and we have had Oprah's show with the McCanns.

Make your mind up time.

Trial By Internet : The people have spoken

From Mark Wadsworth
Entirely innocent - 1%
Victims of unfortunate circumstances - 7%
Negligent but not criminal - 16%
(subtotal 24%)
There's something a bit fishy about all this - 39%
(subtotal 39%)
They aren't telling the full truth - 20%
Guilty as Hell - 13%
(subtotal 33%)
Who are Kate and Gerry McCann? - 5%

On the face of it 71% think that the whole truth has not come out....

Sorry Kate and Gerry you just are going to have to do better.

All the Zeds! Zopiclone, Zaleplon, Zolpidem?

Reports in the newspapers that Madeleine was sedated and overdosed. I saw them in our local Co-op proclaiming it on the front pages of the Wail and maybe the Excess aswell

Question is which Zed made her and the twins sleep so heavily? or was it our favourite Z the benZodiaZepines? Zzzzzz Snore.

Catching Zeds is one of my friend's euphemisms for sleep. It also happens to be the first letter of no less than three hypnotics (generic names)

Gerry and Kate have dismissed these claims.

Question is did they or didn't they? We don't know. Worrying times ahead folks.

I will not point a finger at anyone. At this current time nobody knows exactly what happened.