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Maddie Case: English suspects of withholding relevant evidence
Goncalo Amaral believes that the British police did not disclose all
that they have found to the Portuguese Judiciary Police (PJ)
Inside article
Maddie Case: British ambassador revelations raise new suspicions
"English may have other evidence"
Goncalo Amaral, former coordinator, believes that the British police
did not disclose everything to the PJ regarding the McCanns and the
suspicions of paedophilia of their friend Payne
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by Henrique Machado
The British ambassador in Lisbon admitted that the police of his country
found incriminating evidence against the
McCanns
in the disappearance of their daughter
Maddie,
as was revealed by WikiLeaks.
Goncalo Amaral, the former Judiciary
case coordinator "without knowing which evidence are those", admits that
they could have been omitted. "It is very strange, for example, that
they did not send us the information relative to the suspicions (of
paedophilia) referring to
David Payne", an element of the [Tapas]
group in
Praia da Luz,
in the Algarve, in May 2007.
"Similarly, the British police always told the PJ, in the requests made,
that there was nothing relevant as to the credit card transactions" made
by Maddie's parents or by the group of friends, nor in relation to "Kate
and Gerry's relationship or to the missing child clinical records", for
example.
The PJ coordinator does not believe that the evidence mentioned by the
UK ambassador, Alexander Ellis, with his US counterpart had anything to
do with the fact that the
dogs, which have detected
blood and
cadaver odour in the trunk of the
car rented by the McCann, were British. "Even because, on
September 28 (the day the ambassadors' conversation took place), the
English lab [F.S.S.] had already stated that the blood evidence gathered
did not belong to Maddie". Therefore, the evidence that Ellis makes
reference to "must be something else" - which the British police failed
to deliver to the Judiciary.
For Amaral, the most probable hypothesis has to do with Payne: in
Majorca, two summers before, he would have rubbed his nipple and put his
finger in his mouth while looking at Maddie, suggesting a sexual act,
asking to Gerry if his daughter would do that.
Those gestures were witnessed by a British doctor, who denounced them to
the British police in May 16, 2007. "The PJ was only informed in
October", and, when Paulo Rebelo's team went to England with questions
for the group, David Payne "was the only one who was heard by the
English Police without the presence of the PJ".
Details
He enjoyed giving bath
Payne was the last person, known, besides the parents, to see Maddie
alive. The Englishman, over whom a suspicion of paedophilia was raised,
enjoyed giving bath to children.
New Investigation
Goncalo Amaral, PJ inspector now retired, told the CM that he is
gathering new indicia that provide for the reopening of the
investigation.
Laboratory
Amaral raises doubts as to the DNA results obtained by the English lab
[Forensic Science Service].
in Correio da Manha - Page. 10 Paper Edition & Online
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