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McCann photo found in "scam device"

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Post  Angelina Wed 29 May - 16:50

A photograph of missing Madeleine McCann was found in a scam device which claimed to be able to detect bombs and "contraband", a court has heard.

Three people who made and marketed the mobile phone-sized detector claimed it could detect objects by using paper and cards.

After police moved in, one of the devices was taken to an expert, Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey.

He said: "Four pieces of paper were removed from the handle. On one piece of paper there was an image of Madeleine McCann, the missing child." Madeleine, three, disappeared from a Portuguese holiday site in May 2007.

Simon Sherrard, 50, of Hill Rise, East Finchley, north London, denies supplying the Alpha 6 device for fraud. Samuel Tree, 66, and his wife Joan, 61, of Houghton Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, deny making the device for fraud between 2007 and 2012.

The court was told the prosecution says the devices had no scientific basis, but the defendants say they believed they worked.

Mr Whittam told jurors the plastic casing and a free rotating antennae were made in China for about £5. They were then assembled in a converted shed in the garden of a semi-detached home.

Sherrard would then sell them through agents around the world to the military and governments for thousands of pounds.

Mr Whittam said: "The device does not work and they knew it did not work but it was made and supplied to be sold for profit. The device was called the Alpha 6 Molecular Detector, a revolutionary product for search and detection of specific contraband substances."

The devices were sold mainly for detecting explosives or drugs, claiming to detect substances as small as 15 billionths of a gram at up to 500 metres, using static electricity.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/mccann-photo-found-scam-device-150518013.html#BvC8IA9
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Post  pennylane Wed 29 May - 17:41

Found in the handle? That's a gripping story! McCann photo found in "scam device" 294124
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Post  weissnicht Wed 29 May - 18:16

Name "mccann" walks hand in hand with a word "scam" McCann photo found in "scam device" 424625
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Post  Angelina Wed 29 May - 18:38

pennylane wrote:Found in the handle? That's a gripping story! McCann photo found in "scam device" 294124

McCann photo found in "scam device" 23324 Hee hee!
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Post  malena stool Wed 29 May - 18:51

Did Método 3, Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley buy some of these toys? Is this what the super sleuths spent the McCann's donations on?
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Post  chrissie Thu 30 May - 11:07

What a bizzare story! McCann and scam in the same sentence McCann photo found in "scam device" 25346
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