'Maddie cops E-fit breakthrough

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Dantew28 ‏@Dantew28 14m
@JBLittlemore @Muttfan @BBCCrimewatch Talking about #McCann on Sky papers bad mouthing Portuguese police etc

Aw, diddums! Get used to it - it's going to get much, much worse for the Gonc fan club.

They are only badmouthing the Portuguese police connected with Gonc's pathetic attempts at playing cop.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-madeleine-mccann-e-fit-kidnap-2355122#ixzz2hGe3r7Rb

Trevor Marriott
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Trevor Marriott
Trevor Marriott opinion New Madeleine McCann e-fit of kidnap suspect could be very significant
9 Oct 2013 17:49
There are lots of stones left unturned. It's good Scotland Yard have got the case by the scruff of the neck with a new e-fit.

The new e-fit of a Madeleine McCann kidnap suspect due to be unveiled could be very significant.

However, there may be a problem with accuracy if this was drawn from a recent description from a witness who saw something five years ago.

You have to take into account the length of time between when the witnesses saw what they saw and when the e-fit was prepared.

E-fits can be very, very useful. I've been involved in a couple of cases where we've found a suspect and there's a striking resemblance.

But if the witness is off target it can send police in the wrong direction.

There are certain rules you have to follow like how long a witness saw the suspect for, how near the suspect was, how clear their view was and how light it was.

If there's more than one witness you can compare their accounts but you still have to work within a legal system. It's got to be able to stand up in court.

There will be someone in the force trained to organise witnesses and glean as much information from them as possible.

What you can do now with e-fits is phenomenal. It's really improved over time. It's much better than the old photo-fits.

There are lots of stones left unturned. It's good Scotland Yard have got the case by the scruff of the neck.

I'm sure there are plenty of leads the Met Police are following that the Portuguese police didn't manage to.

I would like to be optimistic. My gut feeling is she's still alive. The next step will be finding a name and if that name is significant.

If someone comes up with a name, and that person can be placed at the scene or nearby, that's a bonus.


The police may already have a suspect in mind and they want witnesses to come forward and corroborate what one witness has already told them.

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How wonderful if that is correct.

It sounded like they would like to have Gonc by the scruff of his neck. Mind you, who could blame them?

Six years ago they could have got a better picture out and maybe have found the person instead of Gonc's appalling egghead man. Leading to nothing. What a cop.... 

Madeleine McCann Police Probe Possible Suspect

British detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are releasing a new picture of a possible suspect.

By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent
Scotland Yard is to appeal for information about a new suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Detectives are to issue an e-fit image of a man seen near the holiday apartment from where the then three-year-old vanished in 2007.

Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann have been shown the image and say they are "greatly encouraged" by the progress of the Metropolitan Police, who have effectively taken over the hunt for the missing girl.

The officer in charge of the case, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, is expected next week to give details of the suspect's movements around the resort of Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the day Madeleine disappeared.

But sources said police will not know how significant the suspect is until he is identified, traced and interviewed.


Kate and Gerry McCann believe their daughter is still alive
He is one of 41 individuals police believe are "people of interest" they need to talk to.

The image of the possible new suspect is expected to form a crucial part of fresh appeals at the beginning of next week.

Police will give some idea of what witnesses have said about his behaviour on Monday.

They will be making an appeal for new witnesses to come forward if they recall seeing him around the apartment six years ago, or recognise him now, from the detailed image.

The Metropolitan Police now has a team of six Portuguese detectives based in Faro who are carrying out inquiries on its behalf.

The Portuguese investigation is officially closed but authorities there are backing the Scotland Yard inquiry and officers from both countries will work together in pursuing new leads.

Madeleine's parents have said they remain "optimistic" of finding their daughter and will not accept she is dead until they are presented with clear evidence.

Her disappearance is to be the subject of a Crimewatch appeal on Monday to try to produce new witnesses in the case.

It will also be aired in Holland and Germany - where many tourists in the Algarve come from.

There appears to be some doubt as to whether it will be shown in Portugal.

Former Met detective Peter Kirkham told Sky News officers were likely to get "hundreds, if not thousands" of phone calls off the back of the world-wide coverage the television appeal would receive.

http://news.sky.com/story/1152167/madeleine-mccann-police-probe-possible-suspect

Police to release new picture of Madeleine McCann suspect

A NEW picture of a possible suspect wanted in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is to be released by police, it has been claimed.
British detectives investigating Madeleine's disappearance are to issue the "e-fit", according to Sky News, but Scotland Yard would neither confirm nor deny the claim,

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "We are not prepared to discuss, comment or speculate on the content of the upcoming appeal in relation to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

"This has been weeks in the planning and each element of the investigation must be set into the overall context of the appeal.

"We will be asking for help from the public in a number of countries, delivered through a series of public appeals.

"We will do nothing to jeopardise the effectiveness of these appeals and we have repeatedly stated that media speculation can be damaging to our efforts.

"The MPS will release the relevant material at the relevant time."

Madeleine disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with friends.

British detectives launched a fresh investigation in July this year - two years into a review of the case - and a new BBC Crimewatch appeal on the case is to be aired on Monday.

The appeal will include a reconstruction of the "latest, most detailed understanding" of the events around the time Madeleine went missing.

Scotland Yard has revealed a vast log of mobile phone traffic could be the key to finding out what happened to the girl.

Madeleine's parents have said they remain "optimistic" of finding their daughter and will not accept she is dead until they are presented with clear evidence.

The Metropolitan Police now has a team of six Portuguese detectives based in Faro who are carrying out inquiries on its behalf.

The Portuguese investigation is officially closed but authorities there are backing the Scotland Yard inquiry and officers from both countries will work together in pursuing new leads.

Yesterday it emerged that Madeleine's mother Kate McCann has asked to give evidence at the libel trial of former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral, over claims in his book The Truth of the Lie.

Her husband Gerry McCann is fighting to give evidence at the trial in Lisbon, and it was revealed that the couple's lawyer Isabel Duarte last week applied for Kate to step into the witness box as well.

The judge is yet to rule on the application, as well as one by Mr Amaral.

Last week Gerry's sister Trish Cameron told the court that the family's pain over Madeleine's disappearance was "multiplied 100 times" by the book.

She said the youngster's parents had been left in "purgatory" and the book and subsequent documentary had seen them "vilified" and "demonised".

The trial has previously heard how Mrs McCann had suicidal thoughts in the aftermath of the book's publication in 2008.

The McCanns say the former detective's claims in the book, including suggestions that they hid their daughter's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction, damaged the hunt for Madeleine and exacerbated their anguish.

If successful they stand to gain around £1 million in damages

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/435511/Police-to-release-new-picture-of-Madeleine-McCann-suspect

Madeleine McCann: Release of first suspect e-fit by British police takes investigation to new level

9 Oct 2013 22:28

New hope for Gerry and Kate McCann as Met Police are believed to be focusing their investigation on one man



Six years after Madeleine McCann vanished, the search for the culprits has taken a major leap forward.

It emerged yesterday that British detectives are preparing to release their first e-fit since taking up the hunt for her.

The image is of a man who is a new suspect in the probe.

After receiving information from fresh witnesses, Met police are believed to be focusing their investigation on the man.

Madeleine was three in 2007 when she vanished from her family’s holiday apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz while her parents Kate and Gerry were at a nearby restaurant.

The e-fit created by Scotland Yard, which launched its probe three months ago, is expected to be featured on Monday night during a Crimewatch appeal for help to track down whoever took the girl.

The Met team, led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, has worked with the BBC TV show on a reconstruction of the events leading up to the disappearance.

Chiefs would not comment on the significance of the e-fit, but vowed to “release the relevant material at the relevant time”.

The force added it was planning “a series of public appeals” in various countries.

A statement said: “We are not prepared to discuss, comment or speculate on the content of the upcoming appeal in relation to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

“This has been weeks in the planning and each element of the investigation must be set into the overall context of the appeal.”

The man officers are hunting was apparently near the flat at around the time Madeleine vanished.

This potential breakthrough is believed to have been warmly welcomed by the McCanns who are confident the search for their daughter is progressing.

In the years since Madeleine was taken, Kate and Gerry, both 45, of Rothley, Leics, have released various e-fits of potential suspects.

They included a man with buck teeth seen at the flat in the days before the McCanns arrived.

In 2011 the Met launched Operation Grange, a review of Madeleine’s case, after complaints about the efforts of Portuguese police.

Then in July this year the review became a full-blown Scotland Yard inquiry.

Six Portuguese detectives based in Faro, in southern Portugal, are helping the Met by carrying out investigations on its behalf.


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And as a new day dawns, the McCann-haters are in a frenzy of carpet-chewing and foaming at the mouth yet again.

They're going to self-combust on Monday night.

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They latch on to the likes of the serial busybody who has failed in every aspect of his life so far. Failed social worker, disgraced solicitor and serially failed nose-poker into crimes which he really does not understand. On to people like Liz Taylor from Toronto who has made it her "business" to create films about the McCanns which repeat lies and scandalous libel from newspapers whose sorry a***s were sued for the lies they posted. On to people like the pervert whose obsession with his own genitalia is expressed every time he posts his filthy photoshopped pornography about the parents of a missing child. And on to the miserable wretch who now shuffles in jeans and scruffy shirt into court to defend his "thesis" which he wrote to salvage his own "honour" and boost his pension when it became obvious his days in the PJ were numbered because of his own incompetence and inability to keep his mouth closed.

Quite.

Speaking of losers and failures...

PAT BROWN ‏@ProfilerPatB 11h
OOH! Huge breaking news from SY in the Madeleine # McCann case! They've made a sketch of some guy someone saw on the street at some time

No wonder she was booted off Fox!  

No wonder she was booted off Fox!

.....and some of us not only witnessed it but got to hear all about it.