Maria
“Boring, measured and predictable response from CM. Hope PeterMac’s not too disappointed!”
Not at all Maria, it changes by the minute as Clarrie has to hop from foot to foot, trying not to put one in his mouth.
First the Pink One is saying…” it is clear he has information that our investigators need…” Note the words CLEAR and INFORMATION
But then it changes to
“Mr Hewlett has again denied any involvement in Madeleine’s abduction, and if it helps to eliminate him from the private investigation, then he has done the right thing by indicating that he will speak to the investigators helping the McCanns.”
So it is not CLEAR, and the only INFORMATION would probably be along the lines of “I didn’t do it”.
It was called TIE in the trade, - Trace Interview Elmininate -
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You are making a song and dance about nothing as usual.

Its pretty ‘clear’ to me that he means ‘information’ that would help eliminate him from their enquiries (or not, as the case may be) bearing in mind this chaps a known paedophile who is wanted for questioning by British detectives and who just happened to be living within an hours drive of Praia De Luz at the time of M’s disappearance.

Incidentally, what does ‘elmininate’ actually mean - if you want to be picky……….

Moderator - Thatpoorpriest already has…

I don’t think you need worry. Whatever crimes he’s committed against children in the past (I’m NOT saying he had anything at all to do with Madeleine), doctors do their duty, thank God. I don’t think they’d allow him to be questioned if he wasn’t fit for that. My guess would be that the Mcs’ investigators will take their cue from the police. If he’s judged fit enough to be interviewed by the Yorkshire police, who need to speak to him about another case, they’ll probably feel it’s OK to respond to his offer and speak to him as well.

Doesn’t look like harassment to me, at least, not from the investigators. They left very quickly. They specifically did NOT hang around to pressurise. Of course, one can never answer for the press when it comes to harassment; look what they did to the McCanns.

Irish Independent
“McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “The investigators are pleased to hear that Mr Hewlett has agreed to speak to them. An interview with him will be arranged and will take place in due course. Mr Hewlett has again denied any involvement in Madeleine’s abduction, and if it helps to eliminate him from the private investigation, then he has done the right thing by indicating that he will speak to the investigators helping the McCanns.”

Boring, measured and predictable response from CM. Hope PeterMac’s not too disappointed!

But I really don’t understand at this stage why Hewlett said the McC were lying, if HE actually said it, or if it was just reported that he said it, and how truthful are the people Cindy and Alan (sorry its late) forgotten their surname.

Oddly for now I think it might be wiser to leave the McC’s out of this bit as so far they haven’t been involved, this is really all gossip about the ‘person of interest’

Be interesting though what happens when West Yorks Police interview Hewlett and the outcome

Nice try!

You’re right about different definitions, but whatever the niceties, I don’t think people will be that inclined to trust him as the very model of honesty and integrity! “Falsifying documents” or “falsifying evidence” (I’ve read both versions in the Portuguese and British press so I’m not sure which is exact), whatever…….it sounds suspiciously like lying to me. And it obviously sounded that way to the Portuguese court. He still has his appeal of course. He reckons there was “political pressure” in the case; he says the same thing about the McCann case.

Anyway, people tend to make up their minds pretty quickly about who can be trusted. Even a successful appeal wouldn’t change some minds. Look at the Mcs! Never been charged with any offence, anywhere. A few people still remain convinced they’re guilty of a cover-up (of what?) or worse.

Now, if we ever learned that either of THEM had been convicted of perjury…….in any country……..can you imagine the response?! There’d be no room for niceties, I bet!

We don’t really know what he said, it all comes second and third hand whatever is said.
Perjury in Portugal may have a different definition, here people are always jailed for it - lying whilst under oath

Thing is, people may not be that likely to believe a convicted paedop…le, or a convicted perjurer, for that matter. (Hasn’t perjury got something to do with lying?)

(Difficult to believe the investigators would be worried about Hewlett saying that! In any case, it was reported well before they even went to Germany.)