Two of the holiday friends that dined with Madeleine McCann's parents the night she disappeared have told police they want to change their stories, it was sensationally claimed today.
Lawyers acting for the pair are said to have contacted detectives leading the probe and said their clients are willing to be reinterviewed so they can give fresh details.
Respected Spanish daily El Mundo reported the two members of the so-called Tapas Nine have asked for their names to be kept secret to avoid pressure from the McCanns.
El Mundo described the offer of a fresh statement by the mystery Tapas Two as "recent."
It reported: "Lawyers of two of the friends of the McCanns that dined with them on the night of May 3 in the tapas restaurant have contacted police recently and said their clients are willing to be requestioned so they can 'correct' details of their original statements. These two members of the group have asked for their identities to be kept secret because they fear that as a result of the 'clarifications' they intend making about what happened the night Madeleine disappeared, they may be pressured by people linked to the McCann family."
Four of the Tapas Nine were reported at the weekend to have brought in their own lawyers as they prepared to be named as official suspects over Madeleine McCann's disappearance.
A Sunday newspaper named the four as Russell O'Brien and his partner Jane Tanner, Matthew Oldfield and Dr David Payne. (Daily Mail)
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Nine of Weapons
Giver of Crescents
An unknown person with its back to the observer is seen watching the the Giver of Crescents ... she who was the bearer of the replica crescent. Behind the giver is 'the weeping face in the moon' .... a likely story ... a sob story in other words. The User of Crescents is on the vessel which rides the seven seas of the human emotions.
I sprinkle salt on this news story in other words. Wariness and instinctive caution draws me to the Nine of Weapons and all the 'swords in the back' of one in the image ... apparent wariness is required with all things relating to the suit of crescents in this mystery ... the path of the moon .... the draw of Yesod, the realm of illusion ... a master illusionist still weaves an enchanting tale.
