Or the Police failing to do a proper search and failure to erect rodblocks until the following day might have been a factor in not finding her. In my limited experience of the Portugese Plods, they are not the best.
No Dev not for one and a half hours I certainly wouldn't. I would have alerted either the hotel or whomever was running the apartments to contact the police and then go looking. I think this will end up being another unsolved case. There ain't much evidence to suggest the poor girl was abducted, nor would it necessarily have to be a *****phile if indeed she was abducted. No way would I have left it one and a half hours though.
Maybe they could have sent Jose Mourinho to manage the US "soccer" team. I really can't think of any other famous Portuguese people who might be useful to the USA.
correct. you search the room, and look around the hotel premises..it takes mins surely? hour and a half is a bit ****ing much
Re the diary - Detectives want to check for inconsistencies with the information previously given to police and for clues about the personal relationship between Mrs McCann, her husband and other members of the party who went with them to Portugal. Mrs McCann was seen regularly writing several pages a day in the diaries. The laptop is wanted - Mr McCann sent and received dozens of e-mails almost every day from friends and people involved in the campaign to find his daughter. It may be possible to retrieve those e-mails, which detectives hope could provide information about the events surrounding Madeleineâs disappearance and the coupleâs connections with other people. surely if you want your child found and clear your name then you would give it over voluntarily? not kate it seems. something to hide? Why didnât the Portuguese police seize these items in Praia da Luz? the items left Portugal some time ago when Mr or Mrs McCann made previous trips to Britain, or a friend may have taken them. The couple left the Algarve on Sunday morning at very short notice. They notified the Portuguese authorities but police did not have the opportunity to ask a judge to authorise the seizure of items without the coupleâs consent. This is all in the Times newspaper Sept 21 2007.
4 years ago, as I have already said, most of the tittle tattle and hearsay evidence has been shown to be garbage. I seem to recall the Cops also arrested a local man who they thought was responsible, he was cleared soon after, same as the McCanns. The bottom line is the Portugese Police have made a royal shambles of the whole investigation so you'll pardon me if I don't really give much credence to the word of a man who was removed from the investigation. Scotland Yard have offered to take over the case then perhaps we will get closer to the truth of the matter.
Kate and Gerry McCann today said they have had enough of "fluffy worthless words", calling again for a full case review over their daughter Madeleine's disappearance. Exactly three-and-a-half years since Madeleine went missing, the couple said they want "action" and for "somebody to do something". Today they launched a petition to lobby the UK and Portuguese governments for a joint or independent review of the case. "Essentially for the last three-and-a-half years the authorities have not been doing anything proactive to help Madeleine," Mr McCann said. "That is despite our best efforts to encourage them to do so. "I don't think it's right that the onus should fall on us, the authorities really should be doing more." His wife said: "I don't want to be appeased and that's what I feel we're getting at the moment. "We need action, I don't need fluffy worthless words. We need somebody to do something. "Madeleine is still missing, she's a little girl, her abductor is still out there, so by not carrying on we are putting other children at risk. I think more needs to be done." The couple, from Rothley, Leicestershire, have met with former home secretaries Alan Johnson and Jacqui Smith, as well as current Home Secretary Theresa May, to discuss the issue and to ask for a review of the case. Mrs McCann said when they met Mr Johnson, who commissioned a "scoping exercise" by Ceop to see if a review would be helpful, they felt they were making progress, but now did not even know if the report had been read. "There has not been a formal case review and I think for such a serious case like this, and with the profile of it and international aspects, that should be carried out," her husband said. "The onus is on the UK and Portuguese authorities to sort that out. "I think the best thing is for this case to be solved, and at the moment the authorities are not doing anything proactive to try and do that." Madeleine was three when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined with friends nearby. Portuguese police launched a massive investigation with the support of British officers, but the inquiry was formally shelved in July 2008 without reaching any firm conclusions about her fate. Private detectives employed by the McCanns are still investigating the case and as well as the petition, the couple are appealing for continued financial support for the official Find Madeleine fund - as it stands the fund will run out in spring 2011. Mr and Mrs McCann said they had not given up hope and spoke of their frustration at a lack of help from the authorities. "Children do get found years down the line," Mrs McCann said. "There's no evidence that Madeleine is not out there alive. "It's just heartbreaking to think that nothing is getting done other than what we are having to do, other than our small team. "Obviously a small team has limitations. If we had a review, if we had help from the authorities, the chances of finding Madeleine would be much greater I think. "We deeply believe it will take us that step closer to finding Madeleine." Mr McCann said fundraising was a secondary objective to urging people to help put pressure on the governments "to do what they should have done all along". "In the interim we are carrying on, we're interviewing witnesses, dealing with new information and continuing reviewing the information available to us," he said. "But it's important to emphasise we do not have all of the information, there's information that went into the inquiry that was not made public when the file was disclosed and therefore it's impossible for our team to review everything, we simply don't have access to it. "The team also doesn't have any statutory authority, no one has to speak to them. "That's why we're asking for the governments to organise an independent, thorough and hopefully transparent review." Mrs McCann said the lifting of a ban on a book by former Portuguese police detective Goncalo Amaral, in which he alleges the little girl died and her parents faked her abduction, was "baffling". Mr McCann said: "Anyone who tried to claim that Madeleine is dead without evidence, anyone who does that and essentially stops the search - their motive has to be questioned. "We're here trying to instigate the search in a meaningful way, it's very clear he wants the search to stop." "We can't stop, it doesn't matter how tired you are, we're on this treadmill and we can't stop trying to find Madeleine or at the very least find out what's happened. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23893899-kate-and-gerry-mccann-demand-action-instead-of-fluffy-worthless-words.do For people who killed their own daughter they certainly seem to be going to an awful lot of trouble? If they did kill Maddie why would they want a full investigation of the case? I would have thought they would have been better served letting the furore die down and not draw any more attention to themselves?
