Jon Hazelhurst with stepdaughter, Lauren.
Last week, police officers arrived at the Kingsbridge, Devon home of firefighter Jon Hazlehurst, requesting he accompany them to the station for questioning.
The before law enforcement came knocking, a concerned citizen contacted authorities with the license plate number of Hazlehurst’s vehicle, believing the firefighter may have had missing Madeleine McCann with him at a local gas station.
Hazlehurst thought it was a joke when the police showed up on his doorstep. He said,
I was surprised more than anything. My first thought was that it was someone pulling a prank on me before I realized that they were quite serious. I’ve never been called into a police station as a possible kidnapper. The police were very polite and I understood that they had to follow up the lead, even if it didn’t come to anything. There’s always a chance a tip-off like that might lead them to Madeleine.”
Madeleine McCann (Family photo)
In fact, Hazelhurst had stopped at the gas station with his stepdaughter, Lauren, 8, after returning from walking the family dog at Slapton beach.
Sgt. Paul O’Neill of the Kingsbridge Police told the Telegraph that Lauren did bear a resemblance to Madeleine, however, the two girls do not share the same eye color.
Madeleine, who would now be six-years-old, disappeared in May 2007, during a family vacation in Portugal.
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Comments
The Mccanns search for their daughter has troubled many people in many lands, right across the globe. Equally their tales of abduction are just about as far fetched.
Once you start lying it's pretty hard to stop and the bigger the lie the better it is to conceal. The McCanns can't go to prison for drugging their problem child...they're too upper class for that and it would interfere with their champagne lifestyle.
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