Well, funny you should mention that.......
I know it seems like HCW has said CB "acted alone" a number of times but I've actually been looking back on those articles after I noticed something odd on the omny.fm podcast. There were several articles that mentioned this quote about HCW believing CB acted alone, but they all seem to originate from the same source as far as I can tell (please correct me if anyone can find another statement/article that doesn't reference his interview on the PT channel as the source). It was the Sexta as 9 interview that took place on 18th September 2020.
HCW was being asked about whether NF might have been an accomplice and he got a bit flustered IMO. It was during this exchange SF says "
So for you, until now, Christian B acted alone?" to which HCW replies
"as far as we know, yes".
What is odd though, is he's asked that exact same question in the podcast linked below at 21:05, just a month later, and this time he gives a different answer. Interviewer:
"Do you believe the suspect acted alone?" HCW:
"I'm not able to comment on this at the moment." ...hmmm.
'Madeleine is Dead' - They've Taken Her - Omny.fm
Skipping back to the Sexta interview, just before SF asks him the question about whether CB acted alone, she asks him whether it is possible that NF was the person who called CB on the 3rd. He gives an evasive answer, neither confirming or denying but what I found interesting was his initial reaction. Is it me, or does he look like a rabbit caught in the headlights? And that he is trying to think quickly on his feet about how to answer the question? It's at 23:30 of episode 28 in the link below.
Sexta às 9 Episódio 28 - de 18 Set 2020 - RTP Play - RTP
So... hypothetically, if BKA
did actually know there was an accomplice, but that this accomplice had turned key witness, how would we expect them to play this in the press? Are they saying they are only investigating CB because the other party has been offered a deal? Do they want to throw CB and his defence team off exactly what they have on him? Appealing for the owner of a phone number when they actually already know who was on the other end and what the call was about?
I know we should take the recent CM articles with a pinch of salt, but if what CB's friend said is true, about a woman in Messines who provided CB with young girls in the care system for him to abuse... he is surely talking about NF. And this has apparently come directly from the BKA files. So if she is capable of that, and she also worked with him on the €100k robbery later that year, is it possible she was complicit to the events in 5A? CB went to live with her in Foral around this time so they were clearly in close contact.
In JC's book, he tells about trying to get an interview with NF. The guy who was supposed to go with him backed out because he feared being arrested. Apparently a number of journalists had attempted to speak to her but were all sent packing by the people living there and a bouncer-looking guy who said he worked for the secret services. Where they didn't move on immediately, police arrived on the scene within minutes to make them leave. Nobody has been able to get anywhere near her for a comment and she has ceased contact with all of her family.
I could well be reading to much into all of this, and it's only a possible theory, not necessarily what I think. But if BKA did know of an accomplice (or at least someone who knew that CB was breaking into 5A but not exactly what else he ended up doing) they might not want to broadcast that if it's part of their secret evidence file.