PHOTO GALLERY INDEX

JOE SULLIVAN

JIM GAMBLE

RAY WYRE

MARK WILLIAMS

JOHN STALKER
John Stalker was Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police who came to the fore of public attention during the so-called "shoot-to-kill" scandal in Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s. He was in the Serious Crime Squad, the Bomb Squad and the Drugs Squad. He travelled round the world studying terrorism and crime and on his return worked for 2 years in Northern Ireland. Here, somewhat controversially, he revealed an alleged Royal Ulster Constabulary "shoot-to-kill" policy, much to the embarrassment of the authorities, his superiors and the British Government, and was probably the victim of a 'dirty tricks' campaign to discredit him. On October 28th he was reported to say, "One thing above all worries me: Why have the McCanns and the seven other members of their group – the Tapas Nine – remained so silent? My gut instinct is that some big secret is probably being covered up. Unlike other high-profile cases I have worked on, not one of them has been prepared to break ranks or really come out and support each other. After all this time and pressure, I cannot believe that nobody wants to speak. Their answer has always been no comment but there is surely some division between them. So what are they hiding? I have a real suspicion that we are not being told the whole truth. There is something else there, some issue that members of the party are embarrassed about. While they continue to refuse to talk it is unlikely we will find out what it is for a very long time but one thing is certain – it will eventually come out

MATT TAPP
Matt Tapp is a Police Media Adviser. He contributed to the Dispatches programme on Channel 4, 18th October 2007: "Searching for Madeleine". Matt Tapp handled the press for the Soham case. In the absence of a structured strategy, he knows the media will fill the vacuum with unhelpful speculation that can seriously distract the police.

LORD JOHN STEVENS
Lord John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police chief, believes in the innocence of the McCann. On a opinion column in “News of the World”, he claims he has always based his conclusions on “hard evidence”, during his 30 years as a police detective. Then, he says he is making his judgement about the McCann based in what he read on newspapers: “Again, I don't say this from believing in the McCanns' innocence or their guilt. I simply don't know either way. But from the evidence I have read I don't think they did it. Unless the Portuguese police have something else, it doesn't make sense. The couple don't fit the profile and their opportunity was limited.” Paulo Reis (Gazeta Digital) pointed out that Lord Stevens doesn't even know what evidence the Portuguese police has and believes that the article suggests that Lord Stevens is so sure they are innocent that he doesn't feel the need of the same “hard evidence” he claims he always needed, in his police career.

TONY ROGERS
Tony Rogers is a former Chief Superintendent with Dorset Police and was praised for his role as a homicide consultant to Cambridgeshire police for the Soham murders. The former Weymouth policeman now heads a police consultancy business. He was interviewed by Martin Brunt for the Sky News documentary "The Mystery of Madeleine McCann" which aired on 24th December.

GARY LIGG
Gary Ligg is a former Senior Search Adviser, West Yorkshire Police. He contributed to the Dispatches programme on Channel 4, 18th October 2007: "Searching for Madeleine". He has devised search plans for over 100 serious criminal investigations.

DAVE CANTER
Professor David Canter is the Director, Centre for Investigative Psychology, University of Liverpool. He contributed to the Dispatches programme on Channel 4, 18th October 2007: "Searching for Madeleine". Forensic psychologist, Professor David Canter has compiled offender profiles in 150 serious criminal investigations including abductions and murders.

JOHN O'CONNOR
Ex-Flying Squad Commander John O’Connor is a former British Policeman that came to Praia da Luz to report for several TV Channels. John O'Connor was a policeman for 30 years and he ran “the Flying Squad at New Scotland Yard dealing with all armed robberies in London until retiring with the rank of Commander”, according to Crimesharetv.

DESMOND THOMAS
In 2001 Des Thomas was a senior investigating officer on the 9/11 investigation dealing with the repatriation of the remains of British victims of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. He has lectured at the Police Staff College and at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Cardiff Law School. Now a forensic management consultant, Desmond Thomas, "believes even if the police do charge the McCanns they will struggle to convict them - because Madeleine's body is still missing and there is no evidence that has been made public to suggest she is even dead...he does not believe anyone will be found guilty unless a body or weapon is discovered." Desmond Thomas, former deputy head of Hampshire CID, came forward, around the middle of September, when his expertise was needed.

CHRIS STEVENSON
Chris Stevenson is a former Detective Chief Superintendent, Cambridgeshire Police. He led the team which contributed to the Dispatches programme on Channel 4, 18th October 2007: "Searching for Madeleine". Among his thirty murder cases he ran the investigation in to the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

MARK HAINES
Mike Haines is the ex-commander who set up Scotland Yard's paedophilia unit, author of ‘The Dirty Squad’ and also a media consultant on child abuse, paedophilia, murder and high profile abduction cases. Mike Haines is also the author of an opinion column in the Mirror which he has used to express his personal opinion.

DAI DAVIES
Dai Davies, a senior associate of Kingfell Global Crisis, Director and Lead Consultant of Selectamark Consultancy, was responsible for the security of the Royal family and palaces, leading a force of 450 police officers, with an annual budget of £26 million for more than 15 years.

PAUL TUOHY

NATALIE ORRINGE

CHARLES LEWINGTON

SALVADOR DA CUNHA

ERNIE ALLEN

JOHN WALSH

DOCTOR SCHOFIELD

NEIL BUDWORTH

KEVIN TASKER

GLENN WILSON

MARTIN ALERTON

ALAN PIKE

CATHERINE WOLTHUIZEN

PHIL HALL

DR CHRISTIAN LUDKE

ROBIN CROSSLAND

CRAIG MAYHEW

ALBERT KIRBY
Among those assisting police in Portugal is the retired senior Merseyside police officer who led the James Bulger murder inquiry.
Albert Kirby, the former commander of the Liverpool serious crimes squad, flew to the Algarve in the hope that his experience could come in useful.

MICHAEL FROHLICH

TRICIA MOON

FORENSIC EXPERTS HELP & ADVICE

DAVID BARCLAY

ALEX JEFFERIES

DAN KRANE
Dan Krane (forensic expert) is a DNA specialist from Ohio, has been hired to defend the forensic case against them. Krane, a biology professor from Wright University in Pennsylvania, has taken part in more than 60 judgments where DNA evidence was crucial to the case. Krane plans to use a software program he and colleagues at the university invented to interpret automated DNA analysis generated by a crime lab.

MICK SWINDELLS (Dog Handler - former Police Sergeant)
Mick Swindells is one of Britain's top dog handlers. He is a former police Sergeant, based in Blackpool, Lancashire but was often called upon by other police forces for his expertise. Lancashire Constabulary was a pioneer in the training of dogs to sniff out dead bodies following the Moors Murders case in 1964. Mick is now a member of The Global Rescue Services charity based in Penmaenmawr in Conwy. The ex-Fylde officer was part of the joint operation by international rescue charities CANIS and Rapid UK after the Pakistani earthquake; he worked at the Margala Towers complex in Islamabad. The Global Rescue Services has branched out to help forensic science by training four dogs to find human remains. This specialist team of four handlers and dogs will be on call to help in murder enquiries and other incidents involving human remains. Mick Swindells has been featured in several British and Portuguese documentaries. He explains that what the dogs react to is totally intangible - likening it to a "fragrant soap" to the human nose. However, his greatest emphasis has been on the dog's inability to lie.

JOSE ANES (62) Year 2007 (Former-Director of Lisbon’s police laboratory)
Jose Anes, 62, blasted police procedures and said: “Mistakes in the early hours demolished the entire case.” The ex-director of Lisbon’s police lab highlighted the failure to seal off the McCanns’ holiday apartment after Maddie was reported missing on May 3. A series of blunders meant crucial evidence was lost forever. Remaining evidence was contaminated and made worthless. Mr Anes said: “If the scene is not preserved in the first hours, all the hours of effort that follow are useless. “I am utterly convinced — unless some new, concrete evidence suddenly emerges — the case will never reach trial.” He warned that even if it did go to court, a defence lawyer could easily get it thrown out because of doubts over contaminated evidence. Jose Anes is on the speaker's circuit for freemasons as a well-published author on the subject e.g. speaking at the "London Freeman' s Conclave ", of which he is a member, belonging to the Order of the "Holy Royal Arch Knights Tempar Priest/Order of Holy Wisdom.

On 29th November four members of the Portuguese investigation team met five experts from the Forensic Science Service (FSS) in Birmingham at Leicestershire Police headquarters to review and interpret the DNA results. The FSS had been conducting the tests for the Portuguese authorities for the last four months. Tests are said to have been conducted on blood samples, bodily fluids and hair found inthe Mrs McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz and in the car the couple hired 25 days after Madeleine disappeared on May 3. Leicestershire Police and the FSS both described the meeting as routine. A spokeswoman for the East Midlands force said: "Throughout the investigation there has been really good dialogue between the teams in Portugal and the UK but they felt it was a good time to sit down and talk face to face. They are not going to be interviewing anyone else. It is a routine meeting and then they will be going home." It is reported that Mark Williams-Thomas (a British ex-detective) also attended the meeting.

RICARDO PAIVA
At the meeting, the PJ relied on Ricardo Paiva, one of the investigation's main officers. He is not head of the inquiry, but the inspector from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Portimao who is one of those who has been working closest with all the diligences. "He is, probably, the person who knows the process best", several sources with the investigation explained to Jornal de Noticias. This was not the first time that he had travelled to England for this case, as he worked with the British officers when they were in the Algarve supporting the investigation.

FERNANDO VIEGAS
Fernando Viegas is a technician from the Scientific Police Laboratory. He and Luis Viriato collected the residues that were found in the apartment and sent for testing at the Birmingham forensics laboratory last August.

LUIS VIRIATO
Luis Viriato is a technician from the Scientific Police Laboratory. He and Fernando Viegas collected the residues that were found in the apartment and sent for testing at the Birmingham forensics laboratory last August

FRANCISCO CORTE-REAL
Francisco Corte-Real, the vice-president of the National Institute of Legal Medicine, who in May coordinated the vast team at the Institute which performed tests on over three hundred bilogical traces that were found inside the apartment at Praia da Luz. His team performed the DNA tests on samples that were collected from the relatives and friends of the English couple and also from Robert Murat and his family. Corte-Real still follows the Maddie case, and he is often consulted by the investigators.

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