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MAIL: SATURDAY 03 MAY 2009
By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 9:10 AM on 03rd May 2009
 
Someone living in or around Praia da Luz - the Algarve resort where Madeleine McCann vanished - knows what happened to her, claim the private detectives employed by her parents to find the little girl.

Speaking publicly about the inquiry for the first time in a Channel 4 documentary to be aired next week, the two former British police detectives say the 'answer still lies' in that small section of the Portuguese coast.

They disclose that one statement, contained in files released by police last summer, apparently corroborates the sighting by a friend of Madeleine's parents of a man carrying a small girl in the area at the time she went missing.

In a Channel 4 documentary, Gerry McCann returns to apartment 5a in Praia da Luz for the first time since his daughter Madeleine vanished two years ago
The search team also found statements from tourists, who all noticed a suspicious-looking man hanging around near the McCanns' apartment on that fateful evening.
 

And statements from the files suggest the family may have been watched in the days before Madeleine disappeared.
 

The documentary, Cutting Edge: Madeleine Was Here, follows detectives Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley as they try to piece together what eye-witnesses say happened two years ago.
 

Today is the second anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.
 

Mr Edgar, a retired detective inspector with more than 30 years' experience in Cheshire and the RUC, is leading the probe.
 

The McCanns hope a computer-generated image of how Madeleine could look today will generate leads
He said: 'There's someone local, lives locally, who has the answer to this, and not, you know, much wider than 10, 15km away from Praia da Luz.
 

'So you don't start an investigation in Morocco or Spain or France or even Lisbon. This offence happened in Praia de Luz. It's a very self-contained resort, and that's where we've started and that's where I think the answer is.'

Mr Cowley, who spent three decades as a detective sergeant in police forces in the north west of England, said: 'The answer still lies in Praia de Luz and it's important that we focus on Praia da Luz and the surrounding area.'

Portuguese police released some 30,000 files of information about their investigation when the case was shelved last summer.
 

Now translated into English, at a cost of £100,000, the files are yielding new leads for the private detectives, they tell the documentary makers.
 

One key statement appears to corroborate the sighting by the McCanns' friend Jane Tanner, who told police she saw a man carrying a small girl near the Leicestershire couple's holiday apartment on May 3 2007 at around 9.10pm.
 

A short time later, on the same night, a family also saw a man carrying a small blonde child nearby. Their and Ms Tanner's descriptions of the man are similar.
 

The investigators hope the documentary and a reconstruction filmed with Gerry McCann may jog the memories of people who were in Praia da Luz at the time of the apparent abduction.
 

Mr Edgar said: 'We're interested in getting back and getting answers to where it happened and that's why we're doing a reconstruction, because there's lots of unanswered questions.
 

'The reconstruction is based on statements taken by the Portuguese police. We're not speculating on anything or theories, it's evidence that we've got from the file.'

Piecing it together: Mr McCann at home in Rothley, Leicestershire
He added: 'In my experience random just doesn't happen, someone just doesn't go in, a passer-by, and pick up a child and take it, these things are planned.
 

'So someone will have been in the vicinity of apartment 5a, the Ocean Club, and they may even have been watching the apartment for a week or more.'
 

In the documentary, Mr McCann returns for the first time to apartment 5a of the Ocean Club complex, where he last saw his daughter.
 

The McCanns are also hoping that the release of a computer-generated picture showing how Madeleine could look today will generate new leads.
 

However, Mrs McCann admitted on the Oprah Show that even she could not recognise the image of the little girl.
 

Desperate: Kate and Gerry McCann pictured at a news conference a month after their then three-year-old daughter Maddie disappeared on May 3 2007
A source said: 'On the way back, Kate was in tears. She cried the whole way home and just kept on saying "I want it all to be over".'
 

To mark the anniversary, Madeleine's family, from Rothley in Leicestershire, have spoken of their torment over the past two years.
 

 

Mr McCann admitted that they had struggled to move on with their lives, saying: 'We're a happy family but we're not a complete family. There's still a scar.'
 

His wife added: 'I think we're far from normality. We need to get out there that she's alive, she's out there, she's findable.'
 

Cutting Edge: Madeleine Was Here, will be shown on Channel 4 on Thursday, May 7 at 9pm

Comments (25)

Sad though it is that Maddie has not been found, and as a parent it has to be horrendous living in a not knowing situation. However,it has been said many times but to reiterate, she was left with her siblings on her own whilst they all went for a meal. I hope the £100,000 has been used from the fund set up to find Maddie. I think the Portuguese police messed up big time. But there are other children who have gone missing and never been found that have never had the luxary of having such a high profile. Why? Perhaps the fund could be put to use for other missing children in honour of Maddie .

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Obviously somebody knows what happened to Madeleine - but where they ARE is known only to them!

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I dearly hope they find Madeleine. All good wishes to them.

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My prayers will continue for the safe return of Madelein

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I can hardly believe the amount of bungling that happened, and the number of leads that were ignored, right there in Praia da Luz. It is no wonder to me that The McCanns have taken over the investigation.
I feel so desperately sorry for the whole family. Things could have been so different
I hope to God that they find Madeleine soon.

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Still in our prayers and will continue to be indefinitely. To anyone who does know where she is, please have the decency and the courage to speak up and tell the McCanns about it.

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Not that the ''private detectives'' have a vested interest in the case going on, and on, and on , and on, and on, and on.
As for a man seen carrying a small child at 9.10. in the evening, I imagine that many a father might be carrying their small child that time of night after a long hot day in the sun. Why would that be a significant clue?

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I just pray to God that either she is alive and unharmed or that she died without knowing anything xxxx

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How many private investigators have the McCanns employed up to now? I'm losing track.

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What does "findable" mean? They keep using that word but actually it doesn't exist.

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I bet she is in someones basement near by, are the police not allowed to check peopels homes? hope she is found alive and well.

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Ask the parents all those unanswered questions that the world is waiting to hear the answers to.

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I'm confused. Why have the McCanns hired two murder specialists? I thought they were convinced that Madeleine is still alive?

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Why don't the Mccanns demand that the official process be re-opened? Instead they employ investigators that will only "dance to their tune" and come up with hypothesis.

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I find it so upsetting every time I read about Maddie. It breaks my heart to think of what her family are going through. They are trying to stay so strong. I hope that by some miracle they will find that lovely little girl before another year has passed. My thoughts are with you all. God bless you.

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I so hope these parents find their little girl.
What an absolute never ending nightmare for them.

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Good luck to them, and respect for dealing with all the insults and bile, that have been incorrectly thrown at them over the years, with dignity and class.
I hope to god they find their little girl, or at least find out what did happen to her. We all want a happy ending to this, but even if it is not happy let them have closure. I can't imagine how they cope.
Someone, somewhere, please have a heart and help to end this.

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How strange, two years on and this statment is made: "His wife added: 'I think we're far from normality. We need to get out there that she's alive, she's out there, she's findable."

Shouldn't that been done on day one? At least this person that they have hired realises that the answers lie in Portugal.

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Why do they not "help" the Portuguese police by returning there, along with the rest of their dinner party, rather than keep the periodic meeja announcements going?

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Please, Please, Please let this child be found. My heart goes out to this family, and the poor child - wherever she is.

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I pray that someone, somewhere will finally tell the truth and let Madeleine go home.

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This has always been a tragic affair. But, one fact remains, they should have NEVER been at such a distance away from their sleeping children. Period.

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God, I feel so sorry for these poor people. How can they get on with their lives when they just don't know!!!!!! I hope they find out what happed to her.

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On all the welter of nonsense written and spoken about this case, there is one thing that's true.Mr Cowley says the answer still lies in Prais de Luz; the question is whether he or anyone else can find it.

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i'm getting fed up with this.

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