King of the Loons

Latest piece of ignorant lunacy from ''King of the Researchers'', Tony Bennett

''There are many many mysteries about the cameras used on that holiday and what happened to the many photographs on them.

I think the incident you are thinking of is how an Olympus camera, almost certainly belonging to the Paynes, plus two SD memory cards, ended up at the home of Hampshire police officer Detective Constable Martin on the evening of Tuesday 8 May, less than 5 days from Madeleine's disappearance.''

The camera DID NOT belong to the Paynes. There is a perfectly clear paper trail covering this camera, which belonged to a family holidaying in PdL the same week - nothing to do with the Paynes

They got in touch with the UK police on their return to the UK and arrangements were made for a local officer who was an IT specialist to recover the SD cards, images and video footage, which he did. This is the Hampshire police officer mentioned above.

''These items, plus some video footage taken in Praia da Luz, were examined at the Hampshire Police Hi-Tech Crime Unit at Notley the following day. '' 

Yes, as I have stated 

''As far as we know the PJ never knew about this and again IIRC Goncalo Amaral doesn't mention this in his book.''

The PJ certainly knew about it, the correspondence is in the files, which you presumably have not read. Nothing significant was found. 

''I think it is probable that a very senior British police or security services officer from MI5 or Special Branch jetted from Portugal to England earlier that day carrying the camera, the memory cards and the video film with him. ''

No, they were taken home from PdL by the family to whom they belonged. First class looning here; well done. 

''On the very day that D.C. Martin was examining the Olympus and the SD cards in Hampshire (9 May), Gerry McCann and Michael Wright had an appointment with the PJ in Portimao.''

Irrelevant 

''They handed in two CD's of pdf. photo images, which had been carefully edited over the preceding few days by Gerry McCann, Michael Wright and the Head of Risk and Public Relations at one of the world's largest and most successful PR companies, Bell Pottinger.

The three of them had deleted and cropped many images before putting them on the CDs.''

Can you clarify where this information comes from? 

It is pretty shameful that this myth about the Olympus camera is still doing the rounds 8 years later, when the information is in the files