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Gail Cooper taken back to PDL by Sunday Express
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JAMES MURRAY The Sunday Express has brought Gail Cooper back to Praia da Luz to tell her story of her strange encounter with a man she believes went on to kidnap Madeleine McCann three years ago.
JAMES MURRAY Gail it was on April the 20th 2007, you were down here with members of your family.
GAIL COOPER That's right, yeah.
JAMES MURRAY It was raining.
GAIL COOPER Yes.
JAMES MURRAY You were having afternoon tea in that restaurant over there.
GAIL COOPER Yes, we were, yeah.
JAMES MURRAY Tell me what you saw then.
GAIL COOPER There was this guy, corner of our eye, crossing our vision, walking out towards the sea. Just stood, looking out across the beach. It was absolutely sheeting down with rain, really sheeting down. Then he just turned, headed off in that direction (***garbled three seconds***)
JAMES MURRAY And was he absolutely drenched?
GAIL COOPER Absolutely.
JAMES MURRAY Gail and her friends were staying at this luxury, two million pound villa twenty minutes walk away from the beach. It was in the afternoon and there was a knock at the door, three hours after they had left the beach.
GAIL COOPER We came back to the villa. Late afternoon my husband and son-in-law went out and grandchildren were in the pool. I was sat by the pool with my eldest daughter. Door bell rang. I answered the door thinking it was my husband had left his wallet behind as he tends to do. Opened the door to find a complete stranger there and he ran into a spiel about collecting for an orphanage in the next village and in Portugal he was only allowed to collect one day of the year which was April the 20th and it was the same day every year, which I doubted at the time because I always come out in April.
JAMES MURRAY Just a few minutes walk away from the apartment where they were staying other members of the group were staying at the Mark Warner complex.
GAIL COOPER Five members of our group were staying at the Ocean Club including a two year old boy. We called in at the apartment once to make arrangements for the evening and I must say whilst we were there we didn't see any sign of the man I'd seen at the villa.
JAMES MURRAY Two days after the first sightings the group went back to the beach. And this is the image, isn't it of the man that you saw twice on the beach here and once at your holiday villa?
GAIL COOPER That is right, yes.
JAMES MURRAY Just a few days before Madeleine disappeared. On the third sighting down at the beach the man seemed to be shadowing a group of children coming down to the beach from the Mark Warner complex. Again, he was acting oddly.
GAIL COOPER Its been three years since Madeleine went missing. There needs to be renewed police action to bring this case to a conclusion. Please read the full story in the Sunday Express.
Gail Cooper taken back to PDL by Sunday Express
FULL TRANSCRIPT
JAMES MURRAY The Sunday Express has brought Gail Cooper back to Praia da Luz to tell her story of her strange encounter with a man she believes went on to kidnap Madeleine McCann three years ago.
JAMES MURRAY Gail it was on April the 20th 2007, you were down here with members of your family.
GAIL COOPER That's right, yeah.
JAMES MURRAY It was raining.
GAIL COOPER Yes.
JAMES MURRAY You were having afternoon tea in that restaurant over there.
GAIL COOPER Yes, we were, yeah.
JAMES MURRAY Tell me what you saw then.
GAIL COOPER There was this guy, corner of our eye, crossing our vision, walking out towards the sea. Just stood, looking out across the beach. It was absolutely sheeting down with rain, really sheeting down. Then he just turned, headed off in that direction (***garbled three seconds***)
JAMES MURRAY And was he absolutely drenched?
GAIL COOPER Absolutely.
JAMES MURRAY Gail and her friends were staying at this luxury, two million pound villa twenty minutes walk away from the beach. It was in the afternoon and there was a knock at the door, three hours after they had left the beach.
GAIL COOPER We came back to the villa. Late afternoon my husband and son-in-law went out and grandchildren were in the pool. I was sat by the pool with my eldest daughter. Door bell rang. I answered the door thinking it was my husband had left his wallet behind as he tends to do. Opened the door to find a complete stranger there and he ran into a spiel about collecting for an orphanage in the next village and in Portugal he was only allowed to collect one day of the year which was April the 20th and it was the same day every year, which I doubted at the time because I always come out in April.
JAMES MURRAY Just a few minutes walk away from the apartment where they were staying other members of the group were staying at the Mark Warner complex.
GAIL COOPER Five members of our group were staying at the Ocean Club including a two year old boy. We called in at the apartment once to make arrangements for the evening and I must say whilst we were there we didn't see any sign of the man I'd seen at the villa.
JAMES MURRAY Two days after the first sightings the group went back to the beach. And this is the image, isn't it of the man that you saw twice on the beach here and once at your holiday villa?
GAIL COOPER That is right, yes.
JAMES MURRAY Just a few days before Madeleine disappeared. On the third sighting down at the beach the man seemed to be shadowing a group of children coming down to the beach from the Mark Warner complex. Again, he was acting oddly.
GAIL COOPER Its been three years since Madeleine went missing. There needs to be renewed police action to bring this case to a conclusion. Please read the full story in the Sunday Express.
