Ryan Parry
12 January 2008
Mirror
Marcos Aragão Correia |
Marcos Correia:
- paedophile ring abducted Madeleine
- raped, murdered and dumped her in Barragem do Arade reservoir within 48 hours of disappearance
- information came from underworld on May 6 2007
- police
- failed to act because believed McCanns involved
- told him Madeleine may have been switched from one car to another in Silves
- Metodo 3
- investigating sighting of woman resembling Michaela Walczuch handing a child to a man in Silves on May 5 2007
Madeleine McCann was raped, murdered and dumped in a remote reservoir within 48 hours of her disappearance, a Portuguese lawyer claims. Marcos Correia said his information came from the underworld on May 6 - three days after she vanished. But he claims police failed to act because they believed her parents Kate and Gerry were involved. The McCanns' private detective agency Metodo 3 is now investigating.
Mr Correia fears a paedophile ring abducted Madeleine, four, and dumped her in the Barragem do Arade reservoir, near Silves, 40 miles from Praia da Luz where the family stayed.
He said: "The description I was given corresponds with the place perfectly."
Mr Correia said police told him they think Madeleine may have been switched from one car to another in Silves.
Metodo 3 is also probing a sighting in Silves on May 5 of a woman resembling suspect Robert Murat's friend Michaela Walczuch, handing a child to a man.