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| Tony Bennett and Pat Brown 07 Feb 2012 |
I was able to meet
Pat Brown off her plane at 9.30am and we had till 1.00 to have a good
exchange of information and ideas on various aspects of the
disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
I was able to
provide her with a detailed briefing on Phase 1 of the McCanns' private
investigation, which included:
* the emergence of
Brian Kennedy as both benefactor and director of the McCann Team's
private investigations
* the emergence of
Brian Kennedy's in-house lawyer as the McCanns' co-ordinating lawyer and
Director of the 'Find Madeleine Fund'
* Brian Kennedy's
purchase of a house in Knutsford as the long-term base for this
investigation into Madeleine's disappearance
* Kennedy's choice
of controversial Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 as their preferred
organisation to search for Madeleine
* Brian Kennedy's
meetings with Robert Murat and his lawyer on 13 November 2007 and his
meeting earlier that day with Portuguese Police at Portimao Police
Station and with boss of Metodo 3, Francisco Marco, and his No. 1
investigator, convicted criminal Antonio Gimenez Raso
* A biography of
Antonio Gimenez Raso charting his decline and fall from...Head of the
Anti-Drugs and Anti-Trafficking Unit of Catalonia Regional Police...to
resigning from them at the end of 2004...to being appointed as a Metodo
3 private investigator in 2005...to being appointed as the leading
Metodo 3 private detective investigating Madeleine's disappearance in
2007...to meetings with Brian Kennedy in Morocco...to meeting with
strange Madeira lawyer Marcos Aragoa Correia at the Arade Dam on 10
December 2007...to his arrest on charges of corruption in public office
and theft, together with a gang of drug-dealers, of £25 million of
cocaine from a boat in Barcelona harbour in 2004...to his current
18-year jail sentence.
And I pointed out
that after they lost the services of Antonio Gimenez Raso, they turned
to the services of...Kevin Halligen!
Pat briefed me on
her plans for Portugal. She was in good spirits. |
