Express: Madeleine cover-up

If that is correct, the implications are horrifying.

Oh boy!

Cover blurb:

Keys to the holiday apartment from which Madeleine McCann was abducted were lost shortly before she vanished, it was claimed last night.

However, the police were not told about the loss of potentially crucial evidence which could unlock the seven-year-mystery.

A Sunday Express investigation in Portugal has revealed astonishing new information which, if proved, suggests the kidnap was well planned and executed using stolen keys. Amid claims that the Portuguese police are about to arrest three former workers at the Ocean Club in Praia

The rest is inside the paper.

Look forward to reading that.

It beggars belief that Gonzo insisted there was only one key to the apartment, without any being stolen.

We all know that his investigative skills and energy were zero in this case.  

I wonder if he can face himself in the mirror.

My friends, your words are mine.

about stolen keys, this is no surprise to me, I always had the belief that someone stole the keys (or to make a copy), which can be explained why the doors showed no sign of being forced.

Remember that stupid video Gonc made? With some crony of his trying and failing to open the 5a door with a credit card like on telly? And Gonc pronouncing that Madeleine couldn't have been abducted because the lock couldn't be forced and there was only one key?

It was beyond stupid.

The only logical explanation for Gonc's statement is that he was either one of the the worst blundering cops to walk this earth or he was protecting someone.

Apartment key theft cover-up by resort staff in Madeleine McCann case

KEYS to the holiday apartment from which Madeleine McCann was abducted were lost shortly before she vanished, it was claimed last night.


By: James MurrayPublished: Sun, February 9, 2014


However, police were not informed about the loss of potentially crucial evidence which could unlock the seven-year mystery.

A Sunday Express investigation in Portugal has revealed astonishing new information which, if proved, suggests the kidnap was well planned and executed using stolen keys.

Amid claims that Portuguese police are about to arrest three former workers at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, based on information gathered by Scotland Yard, we tracked down a former maintenance worker at the complex whose revelations could change the direction of the international investigation.

The retired man, whose identity we have agreed to protect, said: “I have kept this to myself for long enough, so now it is right to tell people what happened.

“There was another maintenance worker at the Ocean Club who said he had lost a set of keys for the whole of block five.”

Kate and Gerry McCann, their twins Sean and Amelie and eldest daughter Madeleine, were staying in apartment 5a in the block, where there had been a spate of burglaries in the weeks before she vanished.

The former Ocean Club worker revealed: “I remember my colleague telling some of us the keys to that block had been lost.

“He told us about it in the week when the child was taken but I cannot remember the exact day. In the maintenance department we kept duplicates of all keys to the apartments.

“They were on a long cable and very clearly marked and we kept them in a safe.

“If there was a problem, a water leak, a gas leak, it was important for us to have entry to apartments if the owners or guests were out.

“When the man told us about the lost keys, he started crying. He was very upset. He was worried about losing his job, I think, and he did not want others to know about it.

“After the child disappeared, we all had to give statements to the police but I did not mention the keys had been lost because I did not think it was relevant.”

Shortly after Madeleine went missing, the world’s media descended on the Ocean Club and staff were told not to speak to journalists and to co-operate fully with police.



It was widely reported then that someone may have entered 5a through unlocked patio doors so people were not suggesting stolen duplicate keys could have been used to gain access through the front door.

The man said: “This has been on my mind for a long time and you are the first person I have told about it. I did not want to get the other man into trouble, I suppose.

"I didn’t really like the man and I didn’t want trouble from him. He was always doing nasty pranks. Once he put fibreglass in my work trousers which is not nice because it rubs against the skin and hurts.

“He was a young, confident man and I was a lot older than him and we just didn’t get on. In fact, he was the reason I left the job. After the little girl was taken, the atmosphere was really bad. It was not a good place to work.”

The Sunday Express has seen the statement the man gave to Portuguese police shortly after Madeleine was taken on the evening of May 3, 2007 ,and there is no mention of him stating keys had gone missing.

A Portuguese newspaper reported last week that police were particularly interested in a driver at the Ocean Club who dropped guests at the apartments after they arrived from Faro airport.

The man said: “On that night I was asked to do some driving because the man who was supposed to do the driving did not arrive at work. I remember ringing my wife and telling her I would be late home that night.”

Now that the man has come forward with new information he is likely to have to give a more detailed statement to police.

The Sunday Express tracked down the maintenance worker who allegedly lost the keys, 29-year-old Tiago da Silva, who lives a few miles from Luz in Lagos, a pretty coastal town.

When we put it to him that keys were lost, he paused momentarily before saying: “That is not the case. I can’t remember any keys going missing. The keys in maintenance were kept in a safe and nobody could get to them.”

However, his former colleague insisted: “I know what he told me at the time. The keys for all the blocks were kept on a cable and clearly marked.

“He said he had lost the keys to block five. He told me in the same week when the little girl went missing. I am sure of this.

“From my memory I think they were replaced with duplicate keys for the apartments which were held at reception. I remember all this very clearly. He did not want us to tell people about it, so we didn’t say anything.”

Scotland Yard officers have made about 20 trips to Portugal for their investigation, Operation Grange, into Madeleine’s disappearance when she was approaching her fourth birthday.

Portuguese detectives have carried out inquiries on behalf of the Yard team, which has not been allowed to pursue investigations on the ground.


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/458798/Apartment-key-theft-cover-up-by-resort-staff-in-Madeleine-McCann-case

about: he lost the keys ", why was not the lock of the apartment 5A replaced by a new one?

bb1, lily, your words are mine.

They were on a long cable and very clearly marked and we kept them in a safe.

“If there was a problem, a water leak, a gas leak, it was important for us to have entry to apartments if the owners or guests were out.

That matches what is in the police files.

Remember, Gonzo insisted there were NO spare keys. Never mind missing ones.

All hotels and similar establishments are bound by law to have spare keys available in case there is an inciden, such as a gas excplosion or fire so they can check people are unhurt. The insurance policies would state that, and if there were no spares and something happened the establishment would be liable. As Warners is British owned I would think its policies are covered by UK law which is very stringent on such things. LL

LL, never mind missing keys, spare keys for the maintenance people, the laundry, etc., are repeatedly referred to in the Police Files.

Sample:


At about 18.00 she returns to the laundry and gives the keys back to the superior in charge.

She says that the keys are kept in special safes for this purpose and when she returns the keys to her superiors they always check that all the keys are there.

During lunchtime, the keys are kept by the cleaners and are not deposited in the safes.

As far as she knows, the laundry only has one copy of each key, thinking that more keys corresponding to the apartments are kept in the reception.

YET AMARAL INSISTED THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE KEY FOR 5A.

He even made a pantomime video with some crony of his trying to open the door of 5A with a credit card to 'prove' that Madeleine couldn't have been abducted.

Surely no-one could actually be that incompetent? It raises a great many questions about Gonzo, as is also being discussed here:

http://stopthemyths.prophpbb.com/post215178.html?sid=a7eca748b8e5e6d766303ad1ec325cf1#p215178

As far as anyone can judge from the files, Amaral made NO effort to find out just who had access to/copies of all those keys.

Incompetence, or something worse?

The Gonzo fan club is desperate today - various of them are trying to spread the LIE that these marks were made by Kate McCann's thumbprints.



Now, they know that isn't true. Anyone who's read the Official PJ Files knows that isn't true.

Why are they spreading outright LIES? Gonzo must be in very, very deep doo-doo indeed for his fanboyz to be coming out with such huge porkies.

Louise Lucas I just emailed mark warner and said due to reading the papers what is their policies on keys that are lost because it's a bit of a worry if the locks aren't changed immediately . X

They just can't resist, can they?   

I always have spare keys to the properties I manage, and so does the gardner and maintenance worker. We couldn't function without them.
And I've had keys stolen from my car. This was a huge worry at the time, but fortunately no harm done.

http://stopthemyths.prophpbb.com/topic6369.html

And remember the locksmith i visited in 2012-2013 who made "crucifix" keys duplicates at 6.40 euro or so each (near OC reception) ...

Gonzo really has to explain why he made NO effort to track down duplicate keys, or who had them. And why, instead, he put on that farcical display with his crony trying to force the 5A lock with a credit card to 'prove' Madeleine couldn't have been abducted because there was only one key.

Surely NO-ONE can be that incompetent?

I think we all saw how stupid it was. It simply isn't possible for a holiday appartment or house to function with only one key.
Amaral would have been better served if he hadn't mentioned keys at all. Instead of which he made a patently untrue statement on camera.
I bet he isn't feeling very well this morning.

He didn't just make stupid statements on camera, he got his chum to act them out:



Why did Gonc put on that ridiculous pantomime with credit cards, when he hadn't bothered to account for all the other copies of the keys?

about: "Why did Gonc put on that ridiculous pantomime with credit cards, when he hadn't bothered to account for all the other copies of the keys?", I think that when GA talked about the ridiculous idea of credit cards opening the door, he must already thinking about the despicable schemes to gain dirty money at the expenses of innocent people, which he betrayed with the purpose he know.

Pedro Silva wrote:about: "Why did Gonc put on that ridiculous pantomime with credit cards, when he hadn't bothered to account for all the other copies of the keys?", I think that when GA talked about the ridiculous idea of credit cards opening the door, he must already thinking about the despicable schemes to gain dirty money at the expenses of innocent people, which he betrayed with the purpose he know.

That Video earned him a few bob, didn't it?

Although I cannot answer with certainty, it would seem so, Sabot.  I base this response on his outright greed at the amount he demanded to speak to the UK media.