At last! The 'they' who took her?
WHO WERE THEY? Mystery couple ‘seen clambering over wall and fence directly behind apartment where Madeleine McCann was sleeping on night she vanished’Brit police probed key witnesses about the information
By Charles Yates and Sam Christie
3rd May 2017, 2:02 pm Updated: 3rd May 2017, 3:24 pm
A MYSTERY couple were seen clambering over a wall and fence directly behind the apartment where Madeleine McCann was sleeping just moments before she went missing, it has been claimed.
The news was revealed by British police to key witnesses as they questioned them in 2015 over Maddie’s disappearance.
Paul and Susan Moyes had an apartment above the McCanns and were out on their balcony when Maddie is thought to have gone missing
British holidaymakers Paul and Susan Moyes told the Sun Online how officers asked them about a mystery man and woman while questioning them about what they remembered from the night Maddie went missing on May 3, 2007.
Paul, 68, said officers asked them about the potentially explosive information two years ago – after swabbing both he and his wife for their DNA.
The retired accountant said: “The Met police came here about two years ago and both times they came into our house.
“The first time they interviewed us in separate rooms and took our DNA and that visit lasted more than an hour.
“The second visit was about three months later and lasted more than an hour and that was to pursue a lead and to make sure we were convinced on our timeline.
“The lead was that a couple had climbed over the fence and the back garden wall and they asked if that was us. It wasn’t.”
The couple said they had no idea who the mystery couple were but the information was “a few times removed” and had been spoken about in restaurants in the area.
The news comes after the Sun Online revealed how police are currently looking for a mysterious woman in purple seen by one witness hanging outside the apartment in the hours before Maddie went missing.
Paul and Susan, who still have the same apartment in the complex, also revealed to The Sun that despite having a prime view of both the tapas bar where Kate and Gerry McCann were with friends and the apartment where Maddie and her siblings were sleeping, they were never questioned by Goncalo Amaral – the cop who who lead the initial hunt for the three-year-old.
The now retired detective was removed as head of the investigation after criticising British detectives.
In July 2008, Amaral released a book called “The Truth of the Lie” which claims the McCanns faked the abduction.
Paul said: "It was not long afterwards (Maddie went missing) that the Portuguese police came into the apartment with a sniffer dog. They went round the apartment and we were not asked too many questions.
"They asked to see our passports and my thoughts at the time was that this was purely for elimination purposes."
The couple still regularly holiday in Praia du Luz, though they are currently selling their 200,000-plus Euros apartment.
The pair purchased a villa in the resort in 2014.
Mr Moyes described Praia du Luz as idyllic and safe and his wife added: “It is paradise.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3429641/mystery-couple-seen-clambering-over-wall-and-fence-directly-behind-apartment-where-madeleine-mccann-was-sleeping-on-night-she-vanished/
