You always see the best in people, Carana.
She claims to have written anonymously to the police with the intention of having David Payne's status checked.
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She declares that one of her main aims when she wrote the anonymous letter was for the British police to check the paedophile or child abusers registers and whether David Payne was on that list.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/YVONNE-WARREN-MARTIN.htm
In my opinion this would have had the result of police enquiries having to be made with the resultant record of it leaving a paper trail.
That's kind... but, no, I try to stand back and take context into consideration, as I find it important to try to understand.
A submission to Crimestoppers to check on DP wouldn't surprise me at all, in fact.
If I thought that I had experience or expertise that was unlikely to come fron any other source in the immediate aftermath of breaking news within a driving distance... I can't honestly say what I'd have done to try to help locate Madeleine before it was possibly too late. And we all react differently.
I'd find it very surprising if the UK hadn't thought to check on any previous criminal history (suspected or otherwise) within the immediate vicinity of her disappearance, particularly in view of the mantra of "clearing the ground under one's feet" and knowledge of various predators potentially being in the vicinity at the time.
There were two people (whom even I was able to find), who, unfortunately, have the same name, but neither could have been him.
Normally, her suspicions shouldn't have been made public, unless it had been checked out and considered worthy of bringing up in a criminnal court case.