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McCann
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Original Source:
TIMES: 28 OCTOBER 2007
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From The Sunday Times
October 28, 2007
Steven Swinford and John Elliott
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A FAMILY friend of Kate and Gerry McCann has described for the first time why
she is convinced that she saw their daughter Madeleine being abducted shortly
before she was reported missing.
Jane Tanner, 36, saw a man carrying a child wearing pink and white pyjamas away
from the McCanns’ holiday apartment on the Algarve
in Portugal.
The sighting was considered so significant by the McCanns that they
commissioned their own artist’s impression, which they released last week.
At the time Tanner attached little significance to the sighting, assuming that
Madeleine had recently been checked. She instead returned to the tapas bar
where the McCanns and other friends were eating.
Tanner told the police as soon as they arrived about the sighting but details
have only now been made public by a friend.
When she was formally interviewed by police at 3am that night, Tanner realised
that the pyjamas on the child she had seen were an exact match with
Madeleine’s.
A friend said: “She regrets not attributing more importance to it in hindsight,
but she never thought in a million years that it could have been Madeleine.
When she heard that she was missing the first thing that came into her head was
this person she'd seen and she felt complete horror.”
The McCanns have also launched a confidential hotline for sightings with an
emotional interview on Spanish television in which Kate expressed her
conviction that Madeleine is alive and “being held by someone in their house”.
The hotline yielded immediate responses, with three sightings of a girl
matching Madeleine’s description in Morocco. Private investigators are
trying to track down a 60-year-old woman seen with the child on each occasion.
A source close to the private detective agency in Barcelona
which is running the hotline, said: “We are giving special importance to three
calls we received about a girl resembling Madeleine in Morocco.
“One was from a Spaniard, the other two from British people. In each case the
girl was about the same age as Madeleine, with blonde hair and blue eyes. And
in each case she was with an old Moroccan woman, who was about 60 and
middle-class.”
Despite the sightings the police investigation continues to focus on the
McCanns and their friends.
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