SC does not say the garage was used by an "employee of MW", and BTW there is a laundry in town which is nothing to do with MW.
The other man (grey) provided some flashlights. Therefore it seems likely that he provided the flashlight we see the father holding turned on in the very early TV appeal. (BTW we have a statement from an OC employee who was asked to provide flashlights could not because he had none).
I think it is clear that because of his distraction regarding the white haired man SC felt that in retrospect he had overlooked the significance of the toys he had seen in the garage shown to them by its Portuguese owner … and was anxious to amend his statement to that effect.
He was also concerned to emphasise other points made in his original statement.
Whether the laundryman was an employee of Mark Warner or another laundry is neither here nor there … it is SC recollection of the location of the van and the circumstances of the garage which are of note.
>>snip<<
SC: Humm... this garage belonged to a Portuguese man,
the man from the laundry.
DCF: Fine, now (inaudible) describe the Portuguese man, the laundry man to me, yes'
SC: Yes.
I am certain that I read about this at the beginning, which (inaudible)' I think that afterwards, and afterwards coincides with the fact that
he was the man from the laundry and of the van parked there, because as i have already explained, we were here in a small street here above which linked to the main road and to everything beside here on top, the rest was all pathways and I remember that on two or three occasions I thought...this is a dead end road, the van was parked there, I never saw anyone and more than once assumed that it would be cleaning staff and only this thought coincided with the presence of the man from the laundry, and if there were any reply to be made in relation to the link between the van parked there and the laundry man.
>>snip<<
DCF: And then the Mark Warner staff, obviously it was after your return when this was still being investigated, the staff had photos of Madeleine that the man handed to an individual called C**** and his girlfriend to be distributed.
SC: Ah ah, yes.
DCF: Its in the part where it mentions that there was a van, and says that it was parked at the back of Robert Murat'' garden, and that you never saw anyone use the van, but
you remember that it had something to do with the cleaning staff.
SC:
Yes, to transport the bedlinen and towels.
DCF: Yes. It says here that you never saw anyone drive it, you just know that you saw it parked, did you ever notice that it was missing or do you remember always seeing it there'
SC:Humm, no...no it was not always there, I saw it about two or three times.
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So it would certainly appear that Mr Carpenter associated the Portuguese laundryman and the white van with MW.
I will be happy to bow to superior knowledge if anyone knows better ... but at the moment that is my reading of it.
