Alex Woolfall
Head of crisis management for the Bell Pottinger Group. Flew to Portugal on behalf of Mark Warner on May 5.

Sheree Dodd
The former Daily Mirror journalist and long-serving senior government spokeswoman was deployed as a media liaison officer for the McCann family.

Clarence Mitchell
The former BBC News reporter was sent in by the Cabinet Office in May to provide “consular support�? He became the McCanns�?full-time spokesman last month. His £75,000 salary is met by Brian Kennedy, a millionaire.

Justine McGuinness
The Lib Dem activist was the McCanns�?first campaign manager. She is understood to have been exhausted by the 24-hour demands of the job and stood down in September.