Standard: Inside Scotland Yard's new Madeleine McCann hunt HQ

**bb1** Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:15 pm

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/inside-scotland-yards-new-madeleine-mccann-hunt-hq-8858835.html

Inside Scotland Yard's new Madeleine McCann hunt HQ

Hard work: Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood in the incident room

JUSTIN DAVENPORT, CRIME EDITOR
Published: 04 October 2013 Updated: 12:39, 04 October 2013
This is the nerve centre of Scotland Yard’s £5 million investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The Standard was today allowed exclusive access to the incident room in London where detectives are running the world-wide inquiry into the missing child.

Restricted access: The door to the incident room

Located on the second floor of Belgravia police station, the room is the centre of a massive inquiry involving tens of thousands of documents and files. Detectives work surrounded by shelves stacked with 39,000 or so documents from the Operation Grange inquiry. A separate room contains more files from police and private detectives.

Detectives are poised to release a new appeal with “fresh substantive” material and a new theory of what happened when the three-year-old vanished.

Officers are combing through a huge log of mobile phone traffic identified in Praia da Luz, in Portugal, at the time of Maddy’s disappearance while she was on holiday in the Algarve with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann and her twin siblings six years ago. Detectives are focusing on a list of 41 so-called “persons of interest” including 15 British nationals.

The McCanns will appear live in the studio during an episode of BBC Crimewatch on Monday October 14 which will also feature a reconstruction of the night Madeleine disappeared in Portugal — and equivalent programmes are expected to be broadcast in Holland, Germany and possibly Ireland.

Detectives said new material uncovered by the inquiry does not implicate the family or their friends.

**bb1** Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:16 pm

Detectives said new material uncovered by the inquiry does not implicate the family or their friends.

Is that clear enough for it to sink in with the McCann-haters?

**Pedro Silva** Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:09 pm

thank you bb1 for this update.

**bb1** Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:13 pm

There's a lot going on today, and I'm trying not to miss any information, Pedro.

**Pedro Silva** Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:17 pm

yes bb1, I agree with you, well done, keep up the good work, thank you.

**lily** Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:41 pm

bb1 wrote:Detectives said new material uncovered by the inquiry does not implicate the family or their friends.

Is that clear enough for it to sink in with the McCann-haters?

Bonny, you may have to repost that in the largest font size. Even then I don't think it will sink into their brains.

**bb1** Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:47 pm

Clearly not.

Charles Shoebridge ‏@ShoebridgeC 3h
Well funded #McCann investigation finds 15 UK persons of interest. Unclear whether McCanns and friends are among them http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24386130 …

How many times now has that been explained, and it still isn't sinking in with some?

**lily** Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:05 pm

Once more, the idiots' hopes are dashed. Sad and sick isn't it?

**bb1** Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:09 pm

I am heartily sick of them and their crap, Lily. They've been banging the same drum for six years now, without an original thought once crossing their 'minds'.

If they genuinely cared about getting to the truth of this matter, they'd be welcoming today's news. Oh no, they're still sneering, pitchforking and tick-tocking, as their list of people who are IN IT grows by the hour.

If they weren't so nasty, you could almost feel sorry for them, in their hate-filled delusion. But they are nasty, so sympathy for them is out of the question.

**lily** Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:22 pm

If they weren't so nasty, you could almost feel sorry for them, in their hate-filled delusion. But they are nasty, so sympathy for them is out of the question.

Yes you could, Bonny, as I imagine we all have done that. Then you realize they chose to be like that.

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