SoSMaddie : Diplomate avait avertie Londres de la possible implication des McCann
25 November 2007

Diplomat has warned London about a possible involvement of the McCanns

A document classified as confidential has been sent by a British diplomat in May from Portugal to a high officer of the British Government to suggest for the first time the eventual involvement of the McCann couple in the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. The diplomat explains the "confused statements" concerning the timeline of the Couple and their friends, but also about their discrepancies and their lack of cooperation with the Portuguese Police and he accuses another British diplomat present in Portugal of "exceeding it's own powers and of putting pressure on the local authorities". In the document, the diplomat also asks the confirmation of an order received from London the day before in which it was ordered to give a "total assistance to the McCann couple", indicating that the British citizens must "be accompanied in permanence in their contacts with the Portuguese Police" by a diplomat or an agent of the Police of the United Kingdom. "With the due respect, I wish to mention that our intervention might be badly perceived by the Portuguese Authorities, especially if the eventual involvement of the couple is established. Please confirm with the last information if we should be implicated in this case as it has been required in your precedent message", writes the diplomat. Since the disappearance of Madeleine, the night of May 3, and the phone call of Gerry to Alistair Clark, several British diplomats did intervene to the Portuguese Authorities and the McCann couple: Sheryl Dodd (sent by the government of Tony Blair), Bill Henderson (consul for the Algarve), Celia Edwards (who has accompany the McCanns during the interviews which have conducted to make them formal suspects) and John Buck (Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic), among others. An interesting detail, Sheryl Dodd has given up his post in the Foreign Office, Bill Henderson has taken his retirement, and the Ambassador John Buck has been dismissed of his duties in Lisbon and is anymore in Portugal.