Express: Yard hint at Maddie breakthrough

Just the cover so far:

From what I have read yesterday, it sounds like a bit more than a hint to me.  And someone could be on the run.  But where to go I wonder?  This could well depend on who Madeleine was taken for.  Someone else could be only to happy to protect the abductor, or even to bump him off.  I wonder if that thought has occurred?

Scotland Yard's Madeleine McCann squad get funding boost ready for breakthrough
HOME SECRETARY Theresa May has agreed extra funding for police to pursue a full-scale investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, effectively taking over the case from the Portuguese authorities.
The astonishing development signals that the Operation Grange squad believes it could at last solve the six-year mystery with the right financial backing and effective co-operation with the Portuguese.
It is claimed Metropolitan Police detectives want to focus on 20 potential suspects in the coming months.
Yesterday Scotland Yard issued its strongest statement so far on the two-year, £5million review of evidence, saying: “Our investigative review is ongoing and we are encouraged by the progress we are making.
“We are reviewing a significant number of documents and continue to identify potential lines of inquiry.
“We are in regular contact with Kate and Gerry McCann and they are kept fully updated on the progress of our work.
“We also continue to work closely with the Portuguese police and are actively considering our next steps.”
Operation Grange officers have not denied claims that if they get enough evidence to prosecute a foreign national living overseas they would ask the Portuguese authorities to put the suspect on trial.
It is understood the Yard would ask Portuguese officers to conduct inquiries there while working with the Operation Grange squad on the understanding that all information would be assessed by the London-based team inputting vast amounts of data into their Holmes computer system.
More than 30 officers and support staff are based at Belgravia police ­station under the guidance of Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood.
As we revealed earlier this year, statements were not taken from some key witnesses in the original Portuguese investigation.

Yard officers have spoken at length to those witnesses who have given new information, helping them piece together some of the missing pieces of the jigsaw.
 
Now the squad wants the authority to take full control of the investigation so that all its leads can be thoroughly examined. Last month witness Mario Fernando, 47, urged Yard officers to speak to him about a man he saw lurking near Kate and Gerry’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve.
Laundryman Mr Fernando said he saw the suspicious, nervous-looking man with big sunglasses on May 2, 2007, the night before their three-year-old daughter Madeleine vanished.
He said last month: “I was at my last collection point near the girl’s flat. It was 7.30pm to 8pm.
“When cleaners cleared sheets they dropped them down the hole in the stairs to be collected by me at the bottom. When I walked down and turned into the hole to get the laundry, I saw the weird guy and we nearly bumped into each other.
“He had a really fat face and had two-tone sunglasses on. They got lighter at the bottom and were big.
“He did not walk away but watched what I did. He stayed there watching me. My theory is that the guy must have been involved.”
Retiring Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, revealed the team’s inquiries had unearthed “a lot of ­people who could be explored further if only to be eliminated”.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/407915/Scotland-Yard-s-Madeleine-McCann-squad-get-funding-boost-ready-for-breakthrough

well done Scotland Yard, keep up the good work.

It is understood the Yard would ask Portuguese officers to conduct inquiries there while working with the Operation Grange squad on the understanding that all information would be assessed by the London-based team inputting vast amounts of data into their Holmes computer system.

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As opposed to Amaral's scribbling on bits of paper which then got 'lost' if he couldn't be bothered investigating/didn't like the contents?

One of the Einsteins who support Amaral:

The met have gone through it supposedly with a fine toothcombe and haven't arrested anyone or found anyone so pass it on to SY.


SY have everything that the met have found....suspects coming out off their ears....why didn't the met take these 'suspects' in and talk to them?

How dumb do you have to be to not know that 'SY' IS the Met?

These same Einsteins somehow seem to have wiped from their memories the small but important fact that it was the McCanns who begged and pleaded for UK police to intervene.

That alone should tell the Amaral supporters just how wicked their hate campaign against innocent people is - not that it will make any difference to them.

They enjoy venting their spite on and making sick remarks about Madeleine McCann's family too much.

The latest Amoral supporter meme appears to be that 'SY can only investigate murders overseas, not abduction, so the McCanns must have DONE IT, tick tock.'

Leaving aside the fact that it reveals, yet again, that they want Madeleine McCann to be dead....

What on earth are they deluding themselves about now? How do they think crimes involving more than one nation, and more than one nationality, are investigated?

They clearly missed the bit about HOLMES. They do know that HOLMES is the police supercomputer?

Doing a cyber-reconstruction is a doddle for HOLMES, without much expense. Do the Amaral cult not grasp that that has been done already, with all variables programmed in?

If Portugal continues to drag its heels, then the only assumption anyone will make is that reopening the case is going to cause the PJ international embarrassment, when it is revealed that Amaral's investigation was a complete shambles.

A forker asks:

I can't understand why the Portuguese have never retaliated against the horrendous and disgusting statements and slurs thrown at them over the years, there really must be a reason for this, but what?

1. Slurs  against 'the Portuguese'? Hardly! A great many comments have been made about incompetent/corrupt elements in the PJ and judiciary.

2. Why would 'the Portuguese' retaliate? If the Gonc cult ever bothered to read the Portuguese media, they would know many of the good people of Portugal agree with the criticisms.

It's not as if there is much genuine 'free speech' in Portugal anyway, not when the Prez is charging Portuguese citizens with criminal offences for criticising him.

3. Amaral supporters seem blissfully unaware that the PJ is trying to remove his pension and other perks from the Great Co-Ordinator. Does that tell them nothing?  

Their other idol Cristovao is facing a raft of gangsterism charges - does that tell them nothing? Does his proven theft of €800 from the PJ tell them nothing?

In short, they might like to consider that the reason 'Portugal' doesn't retaliate is that Portugal can't.

Because the criticisms are largely true.

Châtelaine wrote:
I remain very confident. IMO it is an excellent move to give SY the power to investigate. They will have access to all available information in the UK, interrogate British subjects without lengthy procedures and be assisted by the PJ in matters where they have no jurisdiction. I also think that we will be hearing from them soon enough. Anyone, who has something to hide, knows that they are / may be on the list of persons of interest. They might want to get away ... Now there's a thought: if they're already being observed - we might see arrests in airports ... ; -)

Not very likely, Amaral can't afford to fly off on holiday.

PS - has he gone into hiding since he found out Marcos Correia is back in Portugal?

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Criminal-Profiler-Pat-Brown/387068190642

Jim O'Donnell OMG I can't believe this scum get more funds WTF?

That's Madeleine, and the Yard's efforts to find her, that piece of merde is referring to after Bushmeat's rant.

Always good to see Amaral supporters show their true colors.

So Pat Brown isn't getting any calls to appear on television.  We all know why that is even if she doesn't.  She's a laughing stock when she isn't being totally despised.