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Madeleine case McCann: British police said the parents

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UK Ambassador to the U.S. certifies the charges filed by police in Portugal

MIGUEL MORA

13/12/2010

Only one Between 250,000 filtered cables Wikileaks refers to the sad and tragic case of Madeleine McCann, British girl who disappeared in Praia da Luz (Algarve) on the night of May 3, 2007 and whose fate is still no news. The confidential dispatch is dated at Lisbon on 29 September that year, only 20 days after the girl's parents leave Portugal in haste after being questioned at Portimao police station on suspicion of accidental death and concealment of the body Maddie. In the cable, the then new British ambassador in Lisbon, Alexander W. Ellis admits to his U.S. counterpart, Alfred Hoffman, British police has been who has found the evidence against Madeleine's parents. Hoffman writes, Ellis "did not go into details of the case" but "admitted that he had been the police of his own country who had conducted the tests."

Ellis ambassador also told his counterpart that the security forces of both countries "were working in a coordinated way" in the case, and raised the huge media attention, said it was " expected and acceptable, provided that representatives of the Government to keep their comments in private. "

Ellis recommends

total secrecy, suggesting that their job is to keep the case secret with the Portuguese government. And above all, he admits privately that the spokesperson for the family and the British Government never admitted publicly, that the passage of the parents of Madeleine, Gerry and Kate, complainants suspect was due to evidence obtained by the British police moved to the Algarve.

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lusos and international media, including the country, at the time told in detail what Ellis confirmed in secret that it was the British detectives, with the help of two special dogs brought from England, who found evidence of the possible death of Maddie (body odor, blood and body fluids remains) both in the wall of the apartment or in the trunk of the car that the McCanns had rented.

This finding, together with some inconsistencies shown by the friends and parents of Maddie, prompting police to declare lusa Kate and Gerry McCann as arguidos (suspects in the Portuguese judicial system) and give testimony on 6 September for nearly 11 hours. Three days later, McCann staged a spectacular escape at dawn from Praia da Luz to Faro airport and from there to England. On July 21, 2008, the Prosecutor General of Portugal decided shelving the case and exonerated the parents for lack of evidence.

The same press release: The Guardian