MADDIE ‘WENT LOOKING FOR HER MUM & DAD’
Top investigator’s astonishing claim about missing tot’s disappearance
AN investigator who unmasked pervert Jimmy Savile claims Madeleine McCann vanished while searching for her parents.
Former child protection officer Mark Williams-Thomas made the sensational claim on live TV yesterday.
THE TV investigator who unmasked Jimmy Savile as a paedophile yesterday claimed Madeleine McCann walked out of her parents’ Portugal holiday apartment to look for them.
Mark Williams-Thomas, 46, went to the country to work on the case days after the then three-year-old disappeared in 2007.
The former Surrey Police child protection officer told ITV’s This Morning that on the morning of her disappearance Madeleine, who was sharing a room with her twin siblings, had asked her parents: “Where were you last night?’’
Mr Williams-Thomas said: “We know the twins did wake up on days prior to her disappearance.
“I think as a result of that, Madeline was clearly aware they (her parents) were in the tapas bar that was in the resort.
Concern
“Now the interesting element in that is in order to get to the tapas bar you had to actually come out of the premises – walk on a public road – to go back in again.
“And that raises a concern I have.
“Madeleine, I believe, woke up in the middle of the night, she went looking for Gerry and Kate and she left the apartment and went out.
“Because we know the patio door at the back was insecure.”
Presenter Phillip Schofield then said: “Legally we have to leave it there.”
In her best-selling book about her daughter’s disappearance, Kate dismissed the theory that she had wandered off.
Last night the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “This is pure speculation and as such Kate and Gerry will not be dignifying it with any sort of comment whatsoever.’’
A family pal added: “It’s baffling a television programme had him on as an authority on the Madeleine case.
“When did he become an expert on this high profile case? Never.
“With no disrespect to this investigative reporter, he is forever trying to latch on to the Maddie case.’’