Gail Cooper back in PDL Helping to FIND MADELEINE

http://findmadeleine.com GAIL COOPER will never forget the day she stared into the dead eyes of the man she believes abducted Madeleine McCann three years ago tomorrow.

There was just nothing in his eyes, no soul, no life, nothing, she said, drawing on a cigarette to calm her nerves as she relives the close encounter she had in Praia da Luz.

Home care coordinator Gail had hired a £2million villa in April 2007 to celebrate her 50th birthday with friends and family.

The party of 14 flew to Portugal on April 18 and Gail had a lovely first four days enjoying time with her two grandchildren in the villas pool and at the nearby beach.

As the villa slept only nine, two couples and a boy of two stayed in the nearby Mark Warner complex directly above apartment 5A where the McCanns stayed the next week.

On April 20 the group went to the Paraiso cafe on the beach for lunch. As they enjoyed their meal it began to rain and they noticed a scruffy man standing on the beach getting drenched in the downpour.

They drove back to the villa, where the children played in the pool and the sun shone again.

Between 4 and 5pm there was a ring on the door at the villa, which is situated in a quiet street some 20 minutes walk from the beach.

To Gails astonishment it was the man she had seen a few hours earlier getting soaked on the beach. He was aged between 40 and 45 and about six feet tall with an olive complexion. He appeared Mediterranean but not Portuguese and spoke fairly good English, and was clean shaven apart from his moustache.

He wore a heavy cotton khaki jacket and a green or blue t-shirt and khaki combat trousers. Around his waist was a black leather bum bag.

He told Gail that he was collecting money for an orphanage in the nearby village of Espiche.

Moving from foot to foot and waving what appeared to be ID documents, he said an English couple had been killed in a motorway smash nearby and their three children were being looked after at the orphanage.

He was very pushy and intimidating, said Gail. He was waving his hands and came out with this story, which I didnt believe, to get me to hand over some cash. He kept staring right at me, virtually imploring me to give money, but I wouldnt.

He spoke good English but it wasnt really with a Portuguese accent. My grandchildren were in the pool and my husband had gone out and I just wanted him to go away.

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[EmCSpiteri1]

Why has it taken you so long to tell all this?

[JANETMARIEJAMES]

@EmCSpiteri1 They were told on several occasions .. but like everythings else

it was marked irrelevant !

[EmCSpiteri1]

Irrevelant? what a load of nonsence. A child is missing, A human being disappeared from the surface of the earth. We should, if we had guts, place Spain on the back list and stop visitin, the government should make it an out of reach Island until they start caring for the visitors.

[JANETMARIEJAMES]

@EmCSpiteri1

I have been there myself and the locals are lovely ..

but I agree - I would NEVER take my children.

[amainh]

According to the wikipedia of the disappearance of Madeleine, this man fitted the description of a suspect being hunted by Spanish police for the kidnappings of Sara Morales,14, and 7-year-old Yeremi Vargas, in the Canary Islands.

[JANETMARIEJAMES]

@EmCSpiteri1

No & they never will unless this kind of pressure is upheld.

The British police have offered their assistance more than once in the past three years ..

[EmCSpiteri1]

I have been following this case with intense curiosity,and with a heart of a caring father. So far as I know, the Spanish police messed up the whole investigation, whu hasn't the British police were not called at once? WQhy so many other questions which leaves a question mark hanging over my head. I have the greatest respect for our police, but the Spanish one did not play the game.

[JANETMARIEJAMES]

@EmCSpiteri1 Sunday December 6,2009 here is one of the reasons

Police in Leicestershire the county where her family live  were fed information about the sightings after the unique appeal by the London-based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre last month. cont