Madeleine McCann: The jolly continues

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Whatever camp your in......................its too late in the day

And in the meantime more millions get paid out to end up precisely nowhere near solving the case.  Nice work if you can get it.

How much do people normally get if a child goes missing ?

Is the suggestion that the police should just give up on any effort of finding the culprits?

My point is that the police are clutching at straws and having a jolly into the bargain.

They would not have started if the parents had been unemployed and resided on a council estate.

Dont want to upset U JD..................but people think ......................there are no culprits

'Suspects due to be arrested' weeks ago............that's what the 'news' said.   So?

A gravy train that suits all parties just fine.

They would not have started if the parents had been unemployed and resided on a council estate.

too true

Who does 'They' refer to?

^ plod I suspect

That is what I thought it might mean. Although it could have meant the Portuguese Police. I thought that the British police only became involved when it became pretty certain that the investigation had been botched from the start. I can only assume that they would have done exactly he same for any other couple.
Having said that...it would not be easy to get a satisfactory response. You would need to put a great deal of effort into it.
The problem that the police have with this case is the time elapsed and the poor(?) quality of the recorded evidence at the time. Far from being  'jolly', this must be a hell of a difficult case do work on.

*to work on*

I would say the only chance our plod have
is if they can pull in a suspect, get a search warrant, and find evidence of Maddy's DNA

they may have records of telephone conversations to and from known paedophiles
but they still do not know what was said,????

That is the route they are taking I would think, mega difficult if complete stranger snatched her
I would have thought

JERRY JERRY JERRY

As Sir David of Essex would say:

"Oh what a Circus!, Oh what a Show!

We do need to see a few people 'arrested'.
None too important exactly who - just as long as it looks like someat is happening like.

It's only still news because they're posh and the Dailys Mail and Express are still making a huge hoo-haa about it all. So true, if it had been Madeline McScroty from Basildon, she'd have been forgotten about many moons ago.
Police cant not follow it up because of the media storm those rags mentioned would create

they will be under pressure when maddie gran photo fit is released

And so it goes on...

Scotland Yard has played down speculation of imminent arrests in the case saying they are pursuing several lines of inquiry. Met officers have been to Portugal more than 20 times in the past 18 months.

"'Tempo of Madeleine McCann inquiry moving forwards,' say police "

They're achieving forward motion, in chit-chat terms.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tempo-of-madeleine-mccann-inquiry-moving-forwards-say-police-9126239.html?origin=internalSearch

Come to think of it, the tempo is moving forwards? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Roughly speaking, the content of plod's press release indicates that time moves forward in a largely chronological fashion. An incredible piece of police say-nothing bullsh!t, have they nothing better to do with their time, except increase it, moving forwards?

pursuing several lines of enquiry is plodspeak for "we are clutching a few straws as otherwise we've no idea what happened."

They are trying to get on with an investigation. They would probably appreciate if Joe Public and the press would let them get on with it. I doubt if the police ever want to make interim reports unless appealing for witnesses.
I don't suppose that anybody might consider that all this travelling to and from Portugal might be a pain in the arse.
Everything is stacked against them and it takes a lot of self-discipline and a strong work ethic to maintain your professional standards in situations like that. It's particularly annoying when everybody seems to think that you are just enjoying yourself!

Perhaps these accusations say more about the posters than the police. Perhaps the accusations are correct. Maybe they DO have a sliding scale of funds allotted to missing children, depending upon the financial state of the parents. I suppose it could, or maybe should, be argued that the child of a well-educated, married couple might represent a greater loss than the urchin of some single woman who will never work and doesn't know who it's father is.

I know you have always been supportive of the enquiry Naydam - contrary to the majority of we cynics.
But even you would agree the police, if you are correct, have created their own problem with nonsense such as the 'Crimewatch' programme and promises of developments and imminent arrests of unknown burglars etc. Also the Lisbon libel case which is stagnant.
This is going nowhere - not this week or next or next month or year, I'm sad to say.

the tapas mob deserve more scrutiny

they could solve it in a week if they really wanted to, but sadly they don't appear to want to

I wonder why?

I have to agree, Ivor. The trail, if there ever was a trail, has gone cold. To be honest, I was always very worried that the media made such a big thing of the easily identifiable abnormality with her eye. Whoever had her, if indeed she WAS kidnapped, would surely realise that could prove to be a problem to them.
In my opinion those photographs seriously endangered the child's life. That is assuming, of course, that she was alive at the time. There are plenty of people who think that she may not have been.

ffs you,d need to be within an inch of her face with a magnifying class to notice her eye,do you think whoever took her if she was taken, would let anybody within a country mile of her,she was 4 m,she could talk ffs ,

I was referring to any future visits to a doctor or optician or the police. Or, indeed, if she was ever to check the internet or whatever they might have in ten years time. That identifying mark will be with her for life...or t least as long as she has that eye.

naydam

Some of your comments are tongue in cheek, surely?

Feel sorry for the Mccans but the police are going nowhere with it and the whole think needs to stop.

^ I feel most sorry for Madeleine, personally.

Seems like plod have come up with a new line of enquiry.  And there was me thinking they were just out there on a jolly.

I await developments with baited breath...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26646885

Dont do that Wesdaq - just breathe normally - there's no hurry.

Only a matter of time before everybody in Portugal is eliminated, except the parents.

Some interesting new info has become available. Apparently, it was due to the BBC Crimewatch programme. That is pleasing to hear.

I'm fairly sure that the parents and their friends will have been eliminated already. They would be the first people questioned. I can only assume that the police are satisfied with the innocence of ALL the 'Tapas' group.

budget day everyone watching tv lets release some carp about the case,next it will be every banbk holiday they,ll release something,whats changed today from yesterday why didnt they release this non news yesterday

Max Clifford has her  NAP !!

has or had

Looks like another series of jollies have been lined up by plod:

"Scotland Yard says it hopes UK officers will begin operations in Portugal soon."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27122951

Ah well, best pack some sun cream and a floppy hat...

imagine if portugese cops were going around UK looking at  a unsolved case

local cops would be really p^ssed off

I think portugese cops are having a quiet laugh

so after all this time a british family in the same resort had their daughter sexualy attacked,
didnt go to the police at the time and having come forward during the zillions of mcaan appeals ,

do me a favour

Worth investigating...especially if it means a few more trips to the Algarve and more overtime etc.

I don't recall any unsolved kidnap/murder cases regarding Portuguese nationals in this country. I'm sure that, if such a case does exist, the British police will help wherever possible.

Perhaps the British family referred to by '!st time poster' were unaware of the alleged assault. That would account for not reporting it to the police. Anyway, it seems that they HAVE reported it now. I assume the Portuguese police will conduct a thorough investigation. Perhaps they could make the details known to the team on the McCann case.

They've got more chance of finding Lord Lucan than solving this case.

Far more beneficial for all parties to keep the "investigation" going.

Those who have leeched finance off the Mccanns by giving them hope that Madeliene may be found should be ashamed of themselves.
It must be dreadful for them not knowing and they have conducted themselves with great dignity.

they were aware and reported to the tour operator, neither the parents or the tour operator reported it to the police which rather shows how serious they thought it was

@Ricki
I trust you are being sarcastic with your Mccanns conducted themselves with great dignity comment.

There must be an almost limitless number of dodgy individuals who can be linked to the Algarve in some way - this investigation has only just started.

Nobody mention the video of the two best sniffer dogs in the world who detected the scent of death in mccanns appartment.

Nobody mention the man with brown hair who was roughly gerrys height walking towards the beach carrying a young girl.

Nobody mention the catholic church that gave gerry the keys thats located by the beach and was never searched (the perfect place to store a body until some very high ranking people could get rid of it)

Nobody mention gordon brown, gerrys top mate and nobody mention paedophile rings ran by the people in the highest positions of power.


Dont blame it on the gerry
Dont blame it on the katee
Blame it on the portuguese boogie man


Nobody mention the portuguese police were certain the parents were involved lets instead completely discredit the portuguese police and make out they are clueless muppets.

Anybody who believes kate and gerry had anything to do with it bonkers clearly

Teabag. So, if the Portuguese police and the sniffer dogs were doing so well...why didn't they uncover any actual evidence? Something that could be produced in court, instead of a load of accusations and insinuations? Would the sniffer dogs have given evidence under oath? I think not!

copper

Jack Russell gave evidence

'the two best sniffer dogs in the world'.

Priceless.

yeh this whole thing is a total farce, they know what they did, time to confess

jeez....cant believe you guys havn't joined the dots yet...

all the info you need is on the main thread.....

..start with operation ore and use your common sense....aint rocket science...nope.

oh.....and look out for the allocated number without any information documented within it.

wheres the main thread?

No, it certainly isn't rocket science! Far from it!

off again to dig up some land.

wonder how that makes gerry feel, who will be staying at home.

shurley Cameron will have him flown out....................

Great timing for the latest jolly...just in time for the start of the holiday season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27664401

C.A.T.S. stuff.............................vanished ?

ttt

look forward to the next crimewatch uk,with all the new evidence

Maybe a female porn star this time?

Questioning of four suspects in the Madeleine McCann investigation has concluded without any new developments, a source has told the BBC....

The source told the BBC: "Questioning of the four suspects was concluded yesterday evening. Unfortunately the interviews have led to no new developments and we are back where we were seven years ago."

Well there's a surprise.
What a complete waste of money for the taxpayer.
No doubt plod has lined another series of jollies to explore other lines of enquiry.

that russian was interviewed when it 1st happened and we were told he was a contact of that murat fella and calls were exchanged between them,so why interview him and not murat,is murat still in the frame,is he still in praiz de luge

In other news, the dogs are back..

I can think of better jollies than digging up an old pet cemetary and searching sewers in 30 deg C heat.  It looks like the obvious lines of enquiry have been off-limits for SY as some reports suggested they would be when the investigation was re-opened but hopefully they are actually being a lot smarter than they appear at first glance

poor old plod - ain't life a bitch

It looks like the obvious lines of enquiry have been off-limits for SY

Indeed the few real witnesses from the night of the disappearance apparently not interviewed - at least not that we know of.

Said it before and I will repeat it again , told on good authority that when the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was caught by two plods who luckily just happened to stumble upon him , the plods in question were practically 'Sent To Coventry' by the rest of the beat bobbies as the OT they were getting doing 'Ripper checks' etc was paying for new houses, cars etc and that was all taken away from them.

Sounds familiar.

Suits all concerned to keep this charade going and the taxpayer continues to pick up the bill.

The taxpayer pays the police to do a job. That is what they are trying to do. They may not make any significant progress from these latest events, although, even elimination from investigation is progress.

they,ve already been eliminated 7 yrs ago

That's the point naydam, it's a complete waste of taxpayers money and there will continue to be absolutely nothing to show for it.

How many more millions will continue to be spent eliminating everyone who happened to be in the Algarve in 2007 from the investigation?

Not sure what westdags issue is but the British Police are just doing what should have been done during the initial stages of the enquiry.

It's a waste of time and they need a lot of luck but there are a lot of missing kids across Spain Portugal and France unaccounted for over the last 30 years,

Nothing wrong with what the Portuguese police did - there was never anything linking these men with Maddie's disappearance but for some reason it's taken 3+ years for the Yard to figure this out. Grange should be rigorously interviewing the most important witnesses in the investigation - the Tapas 9.

khyber kim     Joined: 05 Oct 03
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Not sure what westdags issue is but the British Police are just doing what should have been done during the initial stages of the enquiry.

Exactly.  Just going through the motions.
Little point SEVEN years later.

I think the police might have already interviewed the Tapas Nine. I can't imagine why anybody would assume that they haven't.
It's quite possible that I'm totally wrong. Maybe they haven't interviewed them. You'd think that they'd have thought of that, though. Well, I would think they had anyway. What the outcome of such questioning might have been is not for the public to know yet.

Will go down in history as one of life's 'unsolved' mysteries - if they don't know now - they never will.