does davel know the mcanns and is he family??

He claims not, but then so do all the other supporters.

I'm an interested observer of all this, but cannot get worked up about it like some of these supporters do.
I have never understood this obsession for defending and making up excuses for the McCanns.

I agree. How can they be so passionate about people they don't know? I enjoy research and argument, I'm not emotionally involved at all. I feel sad for Madeleine but she's just one child. There are thousands suffering all over the world as I write.

Drivel's son is a doctor. I believe he might have worked with Gerry at some point

But the way they defend those two is interesting in itself. There is no debate about what may have happened or questioning the blatant discrepancies. There is a real madness,sychopathic, borderline scitzo behaviour displayed. Gerry is not a popular as people would have you think.