Madeleine McCann: Calling Cindy and Alan Thompson
MADELEINE MCCANN’S lastest crack team of private detectives are on the trail of Raymond Hewlett, who can’t be hard to catch because he’s in a German hospital undergoing treatment for throat cancer.
The reasons why the tecs want to speak with Hewlett are:
1. It keeps Our Maddie in the news
2. They want to know if he took her
3. They are acting on information received from Alan and Cindy Thompson
4. Why not?
5. He’s a convicted paedo.
Problem is that no crime has yet been established as having been enacted - Madeleine McCann has disappeared. But the shout of “paedo!” is an enticing one, and one that allows the court of public opinion to overlook speculation and just gawp and point the finger.
Clarence Mitchell is now acting as moral arbitrator and local sheriff, telling Raymond:
It’s clear the man is ill and it is clear he has information that our investigators need…
And:
“He denies he has anything to do with Madeleine’s abduction. If that’s the case, it’s very much in his interests that he speaks to Kate and Gerry’s investigators to help them eliminate him.
Is it? What if he doesn’t? Will the tecs tell the police, hand over evidence and see Raymond arrested? Or, er, not?
And what of Alan and Cindy Thompson?
The couple who raised the alarm about paedophile Ray Hewlett told yesterday how detectives who interviewed them asked: “Do you still have his mobile number.”
Alan and Cindy Thompson were questioned for three hours at the weekend by officers from Leicestershire Police’s Madeleine McCann task force.
Cindy, who handed over the foreign number, said yesterday: “The detective who interviewed me asked for Ray’s number. He didn’t say what they’ll do with it, I just hope it helps in some way.”
Is this the same Alan and Cindy Thompson who..?
In the spring of 1999, A British couple called Alan and Cindy Thompson were driving through Pakistan, in the very area that they’re now talking about as being bin Laden’s location. After driving for 11 hours on dirt roads they came to a checkpoint and were detained by armed Pakistani guards.
The next day the Dawn newspaper, one of the biggest newspapers in Pakistan, reported that this couple had found the secret lair of Osama bin Laden.
More interesting is that they reported that this location had been visited by US consulate officers, British, Australian, and Swiss ambassadors, and that it was guarded by a team of US commandoes.
After the couple were picked up by the British embassy they were invited to a garden party where all the British ambassadors and aid workers were bragging that they were stationed in the same area as bin Laden’s secret hideout.
After the couple got back home to England they saw a newspaper article calling for the capture of bin Laden. This was a few months before Clinton signed an executive order mandating bin Laden to be killed on sight.
The couple immediately contacted Scotland Yard in London; they contacted the FBI and the Pentagon and in every case got nothing. No response, no request for an interview. Nothing.
How’s that for a double whammy - Osama bin Laden’s lair and Our Maddie? Both captures would secure two substantial rewards.
Where are Alan and Cindy Thompson now - in Australia playing tennis with Lord Lucan? In Ireland spotting Shergar? Eating lunch in an Arizona cafe run by a large sweaty man in a rhinestone jump suit? Racing through Paris against a battered white Fiat Uno?
We’d like to hear from them. Their testimony could see the end of the search for Madeleine McCann- the single thread story that became a sensation.
More power to them who dare to come forward.
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Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (14) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
3 PeterMac says:
May 27th, 2009 at 11:47 am
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……….
May 27th, 2009 at 11:47 am
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 -
May 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am
I spoke too soon. We have lift-off on the other thread
May 27th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Can’t we crank us a Jack Rubyesque conspiracy out of all this. Jack Ruby’s killer was found to have terminal cancer. His family were very well looked after after his conviction and death………………………..
Moderator - Thatpoorpriest already has…
May 27th, 2009 at 8:58 am
lyn
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.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:49 am
lyn
Seems absolutely sure of himself at the moment.
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!
May 27th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Are the portuguese police interviewing him too then?
May 27th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Lets hope Hewlett is not forced under harrassment to say something that is wanted of him that is not true, just because he is a dying man.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Maria
I think he altered a police report on his colleagues,who were cleared of the accusations anyway, which I think over here would have more serious consequences.
Look at the Menezes case which is still being discussed and was on the news this pm, and the repercussions of that were very far reaching.
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
May 27th, 2009 at 12:18 am
June,
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!
May 26th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Maria
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
May 26th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
So Hewlett says “they lied”? Funny, Amaral says the same thing………
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.)
May 26th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
And on reflection, the best thing they could have done. For the McCs of course.
Imagine if they had spoken to him and in the full glare of the world’s press he had said publicly the things he is reported to have said before - to wit, viz. and namely
“They lied”
They had to be brought back.
He hasn’t died quickly enough for Team M
May 26th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
And on the news tonight - the ‘Private detectives’ have left without speaking to him, even though he had come out of the hospital in a wheelchair specifically to do just that, because their flight left in a couple of hours or so, (and they needed their time in Duty Free.)
Fabulous.
You couldn’t make it up.
I can’t wait for the Great Pink One to speak.