So far we're level pegging with a force of 30 elite Scotland Yard detectives, dozens of highly paid private eyes and the entire Portuguese police force
headline today : Main Madeleine McCann suspect who died four years ago was an African immigrant who should have been deported but received Presidential pardon The suspect was from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa, a Portuguese paper reported The 40-year-old was an employee at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz He died in a tractor accident back in 2009 according to Correio da Manha He was identified as the main suspect following mobile phone tests The report says Portuguese police believe he may have killed Madeleine from Cape Verde? ...that puts the recent crimewatch photos out the window then
Can this case get any more ludicrous .......... I'm expecting 'Alien Abduction' headlines any day "I've just been sacked, from the hotel, so should I nick some bottles of spirits or abduct a toddler?" Hmmmmmm ................
Is this a wind up? Have the Mirror printed the negative of the police e-fit? This whole article reads like one of the April Fools Day stories that the papers think are hilarious. " .......... detectives were investigating the possibility that he kidnapped Madeleine after being disturbed as he broke into her family’s apartment." He didn't 'break in', it wasn't locked. If you try a door and it's open, at that time of night. wouldn't you think people were at home? So he was disturbed by what? If it was the girl waking up screaming do you think he would, A - run away from the noise and the attention it would create. B - grab the screaming child and carry her through the streets So the police now want people to believe a black man could carry a little white girl through the streets of a busy holiday resort without anyone noticing The British police were saying, last week, that 'this has all the hallmarks of a targeted abduction'. Now it's a burglar who stumbles into an unlocked flat and, unable to find anything worth stealing, picks up a toddler instead and strolls off with her. Everyone has let down this girl ......... including the parents, the police & the media. Scotland Yard claimed, last week, that the e-fit was a 'case breaking' development and the prime suspect. If that's the case the Mirror want their arse kicking for printing this sack of ****.
Couple of interesting online articles The so-called newspapers have been going wild about the new "suspect" in the missing Madeleine McCann case. The poor man - a dead man - has now had his name and face broadcast worldwide, branded as the top suspect in what would clearly be the murder of Maddie McCann. His family is furious, as they should be, that their relative is having his reputation destroyed in the media without -and here is the point - without a shred of evidence linking him to any such crime. cont'd here: http://patbrownprofiling.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/who-should-be-top-suspect-in.html 2nd Article : ask if the bbc crimewatch viewers have been duped ? The October edition of Crimewatch, focussing on the case of Madeleine McCann, featured new photofits of a potential suspect - only, they weren't new. According to the Sunday Times, they had been repressed by the McCanns themselves. The failure of the BBC to report this is extraordinary. cont'd here: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/david-elstein/crimewatch-dupers-or-duped Seems strange as this being a such a high profile case there isn't much UK media mention on the Libel Case trial that's currently underway in Lisbon between the MCcanns and Amaral ? http://mccannvamarallibeltrial.blogspot.ca/
The 'elite' British detective claimed that they were 'working closely' with the Portuguese police. What? We're looking for an average sized white man and they're looking for a black man over six feet tall. Can anyone understand what's going on in this case? If the British police are so convinced this 'new' sighting is the main suspect why did the McCanns suppressed the evidence for all those years. I can't get my head around any of this.
news updates: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/01/13/arrests-seen-in-mccann-child-case/4463743/ http://www.trust.org/item/20140113215042-hto1d/ Police in London are preparing to make the first arrests in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the British child who disappeared in 2007 at age 3 while staying at a Portuguese resort with her parents, according to media reports. ABC News and several U.K. news outlets, including the Guardian and Daily Mirror, reported that police were interested in and making preparations to arrest key suspects in the case. Scotland Yard has been working with Portuguese police to find, detain and question three men believed to be burglars who were operating in the area where Madeleine and her family were vacationing, ABC reported. TheGuardian.com said a spokesman for Madeleine's parents told the Daily Mirror that police were ready to arrest and interview "key suspects" in the case. Scotland Yard confirmed that it had sent an international letter of request to the Portuguese authorities but would not elaborate on its contents. "We can confirm that a second International Letter of Request has been sent to the Portuguese authorities by the Crown Prosecution Services this week ... in connection with Operation Grange,'' Scotland Yard told ABC News. Operation Grange is a reference to the reopening of the McCann case by investigators. British authorities launched their own investigation into her disappearance last year. The Guardian cited a report earlier this month in the Daily Mail, another London newspaper, that analysis of mobile phone data suggested a burglary gang was operating near where Madeleine vanished, and its members made a large number of calls to each other in the hours after she went missing. A spokesman for the parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, told the Guardian that the latest developments were significant: "It means they have the intention of arresting and interviewing X, Y or Z. We don't know who they have their sights on but it's likely it is the burglars." The spokesman was not identified by name. Two of the burglaries took place in April 2007 in the apartment block where the McCann family was staying, ABC reported from London. In both of the April burglaries, entry was gained via a window. Madeleine disappeared in May. Madeleine was nearing her fourth birthday when she vanished from her hotel room while her parents were dining at a nearby restaurants. The parents were immediately named suspects by Portuguese police but later were cleared. They have campaigned to keep her name and image in public view and have pleaded for anyone with information on the disappearance to come forward
This is ludicrous. A burglar enters a flat looking for valuables. He spots a 3 year old girl and thinks, "Never mind the valuables, I'll take this little girl, hopes she doesn't wake up and scream, while I'm carrying her through a crowded holiday resort, and stick her on Ebay, job's a good 'un" The police are grasping at more straws than a horse puncher in the dock .......... 'yes your honour, I have a pond and toothache'
Madeleine McCann’s parents 'on tenterhooks' as Scotland Yard detectives fly to Portugal to arrest three suspect http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-kate-gerry-on-3087456#.Uui8BxBFDiw The breakthrough follows a cold-case UK review involving a painstaking trawl through mobile phone data. It has pin-pointed three men who are said to have been very close to the scene when three-year-old Maddie was snatched from her family’s holiday apartment at the resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Sadly a lot closer to the scene than the parents. A source said, "“Whether the Portuguese will co-operate remains to be seen." Yep, sounds like a real breakthrough.
