People and organisations in Portugal after the announcement of Madeleine's 'disappearance'

Here's a list of people and organisations that appeared not long after the announcement of Madeleine's 'disappearance' a number of people were already in Praia da Luz on the 30th April...


Staff from MI5

Andy Bowes - British Embassy Press Officer

Staff from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

John Buck – British Ambassador to Portugal

Angela Morado – British Proconsul

Some British police officers

Sheree Dodd - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Matt Baggott - Chairman of the high-powered liaison committee set up by the government. It consisted of representatives from a wide variety of government departments and agencies. Nobody knows who or what agencies were involved.

Staff from Child Exploitation and OnLine Protection Service

PR company Bell Pottinger (Were in attendance from 30th April)

Alex Woolfall, Head of Risk for international PR company Bell Pottinger (Helped Gerry to edit photos before putting them on a disc to give to the Portuguese police)

International Family Law Group (Lawyers)

Mark Warner staff (They organised the holiday)

Managing Director of Mark Warner - David Hopkins

Robert Murat (Acted as interpreter)

Clarence Mitchell - Head of the government’s Media Monitoring Unit

The Reverand Haynes and Susan Hubbard mysteriously arrived in Praia da Luz from Canada they very quickly became very close friends of the McCanns

Barrister - Michael Nicholls

Alan Pike - Head of Yorkshire-based Centre for Crisis Psychology

Kenneth Farrow and Michael Keenan from Control Risks Group

Staff from Special Branch (unnamed)

Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Small from Leicestershire police

British Police Liaison Officer for Portugal - Glen Power

'Hugh' who was brought in by Control Risks Group. He was a former intelligence office but was now a kidnap negotiator and counsellor

Family Liaison Officers from Leicestershire police

Secret service personnel (unnamed)

Government security (unnamed)

Liz Dow - British Consul from the Embassy in Lisbon

British Embassy Press Officer - Andy Bowes

British Consul for the Algarve - Robert Henderson - (Apparently

Henderson persuaded the Portuguese police to allow the McCanns to wash their clothes before they were seized)

Special Branch staff (unnamed)

A subsidiary of international PR company Bell Pottinger (Resonate) sent out Michael Frolich who was already in PDL on 30th April

Tricia Moon (Deputy Director of Resonate) in PDL on 30th April

Martin Alderton, Colleague of Alan Pike from CCP (Centre for Crisis Psychology)

Most journalists were already made aware with the first story regarding Madeleine's disappearance being published by the Telegraph at 12-01am on the 4th May. Telegraph

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