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Post by Admin on Jan 22, 2018 19:34:00 GMT
 A private detective hired to investigate the disappearance of Maddie McCann before being convicted as a conman has been found dead at his Surrey mansion. Kevin Halligen, 56, was taken ill last Monday at his Guildford home and subsequently died. Police said they were treating the death as unexplained. There is no suggestion anyone else was involved in his death.  Halligen was employed by Kate and Gerry McCann in 2008 before being fired the following year after it emerged he had squandered much of the £500,000 fee on “pointless tactics”. He was accused of conning the fund to find Maddie McCann out of £300,000. He featured in the 2014 Channel 5 documentary The McCanns and The Conman, during which he denied spending money from the family fund on first class travel and luxury hotel rooms. |
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Post by Admin on Jan 25, 2018 19:11:08 GMT
 In 2013, Halligen was sentenced to 41 months in a US prison in an unrelated fraud case after he pleaded guilty to defrauding Trafigura, a Netherlands-based commodities trading company, who hired him to free two of its executives who had been detained in Ivory Coast. A court found he had squandered $2.1 million in expenses, including buying himself a luxury home. It is understood that Halligen had developed a drink problem.  A spokesman for Surrey Police said today: "We were called to an address in Cobbett Hill Road, Normandy, Guildford, on Monday following a report of a man in his 50s having been taken unwell, who subsequently died. "The death is being treated as unexplained and a file will be passed to the coroner's office in due course." |
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2018 18:52:19 GMT
 A private detective, who probed the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, died of a brain haemorrhage. The blood-soaked body of Kevin Halligen, 56, was found at his home in Surrey earlier this month - sparking a major police investigation.  Halligen, 56, who is said to have presented himself as a 'cloak-and-dagger, James Bond-style spy', took over the private investigation into the McCann case in March 2008 but was later accused of conning the family fund out of £300,000. It is believed he was found at the home he shared with his long-term girlfriend. There is no suggestion that she was involved in his death. |
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2018 18:43:13 GMT
 Sources told MailOnline that the house was 'covered in blood' when the police arrived. Today an inquest at Woking Coroner's Court heard a post-mortem examination showed the cause of death was acute subdural haemorrhage and the court heard that a pathologist said there was 'no sign of an assault'.  Mr Halligen’s death was reported to the coroner under the name of Richard Powell, and the court heard he is also known as Kevin Richard Halligen, Richard Halligen and Kevin Patrick Halligan. Coroner Simon Wickens opened and adjourned the inquest to July 2, adding that the date was subject to change. Former associates of Halligen described him as a heavy drinker. One ex-colleague told MailOnline: 'The house was covered in blood but apparently that was from Kevin falling down so much.' Defence consultant Tim Craig-Harvey, a former associate of Halligen, wrote online: 'The lies and alcohol finally caught up with him.' |
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2018 18:54:28 GMT
 The twin siblings of Madeleine McCann are today celebrating turning into teenagers – by wishing that she would come home. Sean and Amelie McCann blew out their candles during a party with family and friends.  Speaking to The Sun, a friend said that the only wish of Madeleine’s 13-year-old siblings ‘is for their big sister to come home’. They said: ‘Their only wish is for their big sister to come home. There will be prayers to remember Madeleine as well wherever she is. ‘Kate and Gerry want to give the twins a memorable occasion, they’re teenagers now and that’s a big deal. |
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