So other than the non-existent 'alibi', the other main "revelation" of the MWT doc concerened the two phone numbers that the BKA appealed for information about. Again, reports in the press (via MWT's findings) suggested the -680 number did not belong to CB at all, and that multiple people had claimed it was being used by another man in Portugal. And also that the -683 number that called it on the 3rd, belonged to a darkweb paedophile at the time. The reality though is quite different. Below is an analysis of what was actually said about it all.
MWT talks with a cyber analyst. They are trying to find out who the -683 number belongs to and have found a "social media account" linked to the number. The social media account is blurred on screen but you can clearly make out that it is the same Kik account that MWT tweeted about shortly after the appeal came out in 2020. It pictures a young girl that MWT tried to claim looked like N Miftari and we discussed it here previously:
Madeleine McCann: German prisoner identified as suspect - #9
The "phone number" field on a Kik account is just an optional free text field. This means that anyone with a Kik account can just put any number they want to into this field, it's not actually physically linked to your phone number, the messenger service works via the internet. Also, Kik wasn't around in 2007. Anyway, the analyst says he has exchanged messages with this account holder and concludes that -
Analyst:
"Our investigation showed that that number has probably been re-issued to somebody else."
MWT (voiceover):
"This user seems to have taken over the original -683 account but Martin [the analyst] is able to track their internet searches and they reveal an alarming pattern."
So right off the bat, MWT admits that this person does not appear to be the person who had the -683 number in 2007 but decides to hack their internet search history anyway. What is then shown on screen is list of websites the user has apparently visited which are related to child sexual abuse content.
MWT:
"This person who took over the account, which we know is -683, is active themselves in a paedophile chatroom?"
Analyst:
"It appears to be that way."
MWT:
"If they're a paedophile themselves, from Germany [doesn't actually explain how he comes to that conclusion in the doc], are they the person that had that phone in 2007?"
Analyst:
"It's too much of a coincidence."
MWT:
"It is, isn't it? It's starting to point that way."
MWT folows up with some guff that they need to find supporting evidence to prove whether this user had the phone in 2007 but it doesn't get mentioned in the doc again at all, so presumably they found nothing to indicate that this person had the phone in 2007. It is also at complete odds with their previous assertion that this person "took over" the -683 account since then. I suppose the one peculiar aspect to it is why someone accessing paedophile content on the internet would have a Kik account with a picture of a young girl as its profile, and a phone number connected to an active murder case?
The other "revelation" in the doc concerns the -680 number that HCW claims CB was using. In the doc MWT apparently receives another call from his super secret "source" -
MWT:
"So my call last night is that the number -680 that we are told that was being used on the evening of 3rd May 2007 by Christian B, but that might not be true... my source, who won't be identified, just won't be identified, too close to how they got the information... my source is official and says they called the -680 number multiple times between April and December 2006 and each time it was answered by a German friend of Christian B. The alleged -680 user lives just outside Foral, a 40 minute drive from Praia da Luz. The same village that Christian B was parked living in his van around the time Madeleine disappeared."
MWT then travels to meet this man who supposedly answered the phone between April and December 2006, the period of time that CB was in prison for fuel theft. He arrives at what is clearly BP's scrapyard, you can see the same junk and vehicles parked at the entrance as is shown in the Press photographs.
BP apparently isn't there but MWT doorsteps his wife for some questions:
MWT:
"I've established the crucial telephone number ending -680, was actually [bleeped] telephone number because he was using that -680 number during the period of 2006 when Christian B was in jail. Does that make sense?"
Woman:
"The whole time since we are here, he has the same telephone number."
MWT:
"And it's not -680?"
The woman pulls up her phone and shows MWT her husband's number which ends in -964.
MWT:
"Ok, so it's a different number than that. I've seen it written in black and white [really, via a phone call?], I'm at pains to understand how he would answer the telephone number -680."
Woman:
"I don't know."
MWT:
"The question is I suppose is did he have another number or was he with somebody who had that number?"
Woman:
"Maybe, I don't know."
MWT:
"Ok, thank you so much."
Now, either MWT has failed to do proper research here, or he is being deliberately deceptive. Given it is potentially a crucial lead, did he not go back to ask to ask BP about it directly? Personally, I suspect this 'lead' he picked up is already an important part of the BKA's evidence file and BP probably refused to talk to MWT about it. And/or MWT has perhaps been instructed by LE that he cannot publish any details about this aspect of the evidence. I think BP's wife perhaps knew more about the phone than she was letting on and just tried to give MWT the friendly brush off instead IMO.
We already know from the accounts of CP and BP that CB asked them both to go to his farmhouse and collect a load of his belongings and vehicles to be taken to BP's home for storage while he was locked up. So there's a very obvious reason why CB's phone would have been in BP's possession during this time. The only curious part about it [if the "source" is being truthful], is why BP would have kept the phone charged and answered calls on it? Or, was it his phone originally and he gave it to CB when he came out of prison maybe?
MWT then gets in touch with HCW to tell him what he's found out about BP and asks him what evidence the BKA have to make them believe CB was using the -680 number in 2007. Surprisingly, HCW does actually throw him a bone and explains one reason they assert this without going into any real detail.
MWT (after call with HCW):
"So I just had a chat with the German Prosecutor, so the telephone number -680, he has a witness and that witness has told him, them, that Christian was using that number. But, not on the 3rd of May, we have no evidence that says he was using it on the 3rd of May, all we have is one witness saying, that that telephone number was being used by Christian B at some stage prior to Madeleine's disappearance. And he's saying they've had a couple of phone calls and everytime they rang, Christian B answered the phone. That's their evidence."
What MWT doesn't reveal here is whether the BKA witness says CB was using the phone during the period before or after BP was allegedly using it. On his 'This Morning' interview though, MWT claimed that the BKA can't place CB using the phone in the "days and weeks" before Madeleine went missing. Which IMO suggests he knows they can place CB using it in the "months" before she went missing, i.e. after BP was supposedly using it in 2006. Bit sneaky of MWT not to state this outright though if that's the case, preferring to sell the idea of another man having the phone at the time of MM's disappearance for the purpose his doc promotion.
MWT (climbing onto his high horse):
"You know, we're over a year now and there's not one other person who's come forward and said, Christian B was using that number -680. Nobody! Why? Why!?"
Ok, so MWT has been given a crumb of information by HCW and seemingly makes a naive assumption that he's been given the entire loaf. We aren't shown any content of the call he had with HCW but I don't believe for a second that he would have told MWT all the evidence they know about relating to the phone. Does MWT really know for sure that nobody else has said CB was using that number at all, or is he making assumptions? What did BP tell the BKA about what happened to the phone, given he was supposedly using it in 2006? If it was an unregistered burner phone for specific criminal activity, how many people would likely know about the number anwyay and come forward about it? In MWT's interview with HCW (just like all of MWT's other "bombshell" findings) none of these specifics are discussed, or at least none are shown being discussed, and you can tell the interview has been very heavily edited. All that was clear is that HCW stuck to form and revealed absolutely nothing to MWT that he hasn't already said before.
IMO, the only really significant piece of new info that MWT revealed is that there
is a definitive link between CB and that phone number via BP. And that the Prosecutors have at least one witness who can testify CB was answering on that phone number prior to MM's disappearance.