Childless couple in link to Maddie mystery

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/childless-couple-in-link-to-maddie-mystery

Childless couple in link to Maddie mystery
Wednesday 10th July 2013
● NEWSBy Donal MacIntyre

POLICE are investigating a childless couple who they suspect could have abducted missing Madeleine McCann.

The pair, who had told friends they would kidnap a child after becoming frustrated with adoption red tape, are among the list of 38 new suspects drawn up by British cops.

A review by London’s Metropolitan police led them to the couple and detectives are now investigating the theory that they smuggled the missing toddler out of Portugal aboard a boat.

The man had inherited a large amount of money around the time Maddie disappeared on May 3, 2007, from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, and it’s believed he could have used the money to set up a new life.

And it’s the childless couple theory that is fuelling the last remaining hope that Maddie could still be alive.

This week cops said there is still no proof she is dead.

Other theories centered around paedophile gangs and lone sex offenders, but the investigation is now focusing on one individual who, having struggled with adoption procedures in Portugal, threatened to kidnap a child.

The individual is believed to have told friends that he was so frustrated with adoption procedures in a number of countries that “he would take his own child” if necessary.

The Metropolitan Police have been aware of this line of inquiry for the past two years, but it’s only since British PM David Cameron ordered a fresh review that they had the resources to follow it up independently of the Portuguese authorities.

Sources close to the new investigation have told the Sunday World that they believe Madeleine was stalked and targeted for abduction in the days before she disappeared.

The English suspect, who has never been interviewed by UK or Portuguese Police officers, is understood to have been driving a four-wheel drive car at the time of the kidnapping.

The theory suggests that the planned abduction of Maddie involved at least two people and it is claimed that the suspect used a newly-purchased yacht, which was moored about an hour away from Praia da Luz, to leave the country.

Scotland Yard officers involved in the new probe also believe that it is likely the suspect had somehow accessed a key to apartment 5A, where the McCanns stayed with their three children.

The new review – launched in 2011 amid frustration with the bungling of the original investigation, which saw the McCanns wrongly identified as suspects in their daughter’s disappearance – has discovered 195 new leads and 38 persons of interest, including known sex offenders who were in the country at the time.

The Scotland Yard team of up to 37 detectives have re-interviewed the McCanns and their friends who holidayed together and who were eating at the tapas bar in the resort when Maddie went missing. None of them are among the list of 38 individuals police confirmed.

Police also reviewed over 30,000 documents from the Portuguese authorities and material gained from the private investigators hired by the McCanns over the last six years.

The Metropolitan Police team has declared that the “new witnesses and new evidence” points to a likelihood that Maddie is alive and is being held captive in a similar vein to the spate of recovered childhood kidnap victims that have been discovered in Austria and in the US.

The McCanns and the Met officers have taken hope from these horrific cases and point most recently to the case of Cleveland monster Ariel Castro (52), who kept three young girls captive for a decade until cries for help from one of his victims, Amanda Berry, revealed their existence to the world.

Operation Grange’s Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the new inquiry, says: “The review has given us new thinking, new theories, new evidence and new witnesses.”

The force is understood to have reviewed material from top-secret US spy satellites, which were recording material near the resort where Madeleine McCann disappeared five years ago.

The spy cameras, which can detect the number plate of a car from five miles up, had been denied to the Portuguese authorities, but details of it have been confidentially released to the UK review team to help them with the latest enquiry.

The satellite information – which will be used to help identify cars around the Mark Warner complex – was used to check out a red car which was spotted by witnesses on the night and has now been used to review movement related to the 4x4 vehicle.

Clarence Mitchell, the former BBC reporter and spokesperson for parents Kate and Gerry McCann said: “It was a big step forward in establishing what happened and, hopefully, in bringing to justice whoever is responsible for Madeleine’s abduction.”

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I had to check the date on that - anything that involves 'spy satellites' needs to be taken with a bucket of salt.

Oh, and please note, that is an IRISH paper. For some bizarre reason, the Hounders think Dublin is in Britain.....

Of course they that that is where Dublin is, Bonny. Gonc had problems identifying Ireland too......

...And those wicked Yanks refused to let the Great Co-Ordinator in on the spy satellites....

I'm sorry, I can't take anything involving satellites seriously.  

Oh, please God that this is true. With money it would not have been that difficult. Anyone can go anywhere on an ocean going boat, and disappear for several years while a child grows older and changes in appearance.
And it would not be difficult for such people to convince themselves that Madeleine was neglected, and that her parents did not deserve her.

I have long believed, and hoped that this is what happened. Such people will have wanted a basically well nurtured child of sound intelligence, and not some child off the streets.
And there are pointers in this direction.

bb1 wrote:...And those wicked Yanks refused to let the Great Co-Ordinator in on the spy satellites....

I'm sorry, I can't take anything involving satellites seriously.  

Oh I know, Bonny. I know.......dastardly.          

I'm sorry, but I cannot take any of that satellite stuff seriously. I do believe technology has moved on since then though.......

That would mean this 'satellite' story had some truth in it:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/134657/SATELLITE-CLUE-TO-MADDIE-KIDNAP

Mind you, I can quite see why the US wouldn't have wanted to pass on any info when Amoral was on the loose - he'd have made sure any sensitive info he received flew off his desk, out the window, and into the waiting arms of a CdM employee.

Sometimes the life of a child is not as important as security. But if Britain never asked, what the hell does anyone think the answer would be?
And Yes, I do think Britain should have asked. Bugger Portugal. I wouldn't trust them any further than I could throw them. And nor would the Security Services of any country.

Saints preserve us, now the McCann-haters are all convinced that Donal is sending them secret messages of support via these stories