ES: Scotland Yard Urge Portuguese Police To Act

At last, some sort of official confirmation of the rumours that have been circulating recently - and good news:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/exclusive-british-police-identify-maddy-suspects-and-urge-portuguese-to-act-8620704.html

EXCLUSIVE: British police identify 'Maddy suspects' and urge Portuguese to act

17 May 2013

Scotland Yard has identified a number of potential suspects who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, the force’s top detective revealed today.

Investigators carrying out a review of the case have drawn up a list of people who they say are “of interest” to the inquiry.

Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, the head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said there were a “good number” of individuals who should be questioned.

Today he urged the Portuguese authorities to investigate the new leads identified by the British review.

DCS Campbell, speaking on the eve of his retirement from the Met, said: “There are a lot of people of interest. There are people who could be properly explored further, if only to be eliminated.”

He refused to give numbers but said there was “more than a handful” of names of “people of interest”.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007 as her parents Kate and Gerry McCann dined with friends near-by.

The official Portuguese inquiry was shelved in 2008 but Scotland Yard launched a review of the case in 2011 after David Cameron responded to a plea from Madeleine’s parents.

Last year the review team led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood said it had identified 195 potential leads after examining a huge bundle of material.

Today DCS Campbell said the 30-strong review squad had done a “fantastic” job in identifying “further investigative and forensic opportunities.”

He said it was “perfectly probable” that information which could identify the suspect responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance was already within the Portuguese files.

He added: “We have to ask ourselves why are cases unsolved and, on many occasions, we find we passed the suspects by already and the suspect sits within our system.”

DCS Campbell said there were a “good number” of people who could be interviewed and eliminated to allow investigators to focus on a smaller group.

Detectives from the Yard’s team have travelled to Portugal around 10 times to liaise with the authorities there and gather evidence in an inquiry which has cost more than £2 million.

So far, Portugal’s attorney general has ruled out a new inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance but the comments from the senior Yard detective will raise hopes of a fresh investigation.

DCS Campbell said: “The Portuguese hopefully will pursue some of these investigative opportunities with our assistance. There is room for further work and collaboration to resolve the case.”

He re-iterated a claim that Madeleine could still be alive. He said: “You only have to look at the case in Cleveland, Ohio, and the European cases. Of course, there is a possibility she is alive, you cannot exclude it. But the key is to investigate the case and, alive or dead, we should be able to try and discern what happened.”

He added: “The purpose of the review is to look at it with fresh eyes…there has been real benefit in doing it.”

Scotland Yard has identified a number of potential suspects who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, the force’s top detective revealed today.

Good news - as is DCS Campbell's statement that Madeleine may well be alive.

Those who persist in demanding the world write her off as dead should hang their heads in shame.

Oh, and it might be an idea for the police to take a closer look at their ringleaders, find out what their real agenda is.

....And the pixels are barely dry on the story when along comes the first predictable idiot, 100% wrong, 100% of the time, as usual:

Re: **BREAKING 17 May** SY Review Team have identified some likely suspects: 'Portuguese Police must now act', they demand
ShuBob Today

I believe Hamish could be referring to the Tapas 7. I hope he is anyway.

Hardly - unless they've all emigrated to Portugal?

Rumours about the Yard knowing what a fkc-up Gonc's investigation was have been circulating all week, and this would seem to confirm them.

Goncalo_Amoral ‏@Scum_Cop_Amoral 2m
@collywobbles54 @1matthewwright1 ~ it may be Hewlett and his gang? It could well be the Polish people. It may be the cleaners at OC #mccann

Precisely. Or the men seen hanging around the area who were never traced - any number of possible leads to the abductor/s were ignored by Gonc.

Too much like hard work, was it?

well done Scotland Yard, keep up the good work.

this is what truly matters:

"DCS Campbell said: “The Portuguese hopefully will pursue some of these investigative opportunities with our assistance. There is room for further work and collaboration to resolve the case.”

He re-iterated a claim that Madeleine could still be alive. He said: “You only have to look at the case in Cleveland, Ohio, and the European cases. Of course, there is a possibility she is alive, you cannot exclude it."

Yes, I agree: "Good news - as is DCS Campbell's statement that Madeleine may well be alive."

Re: **BREAKING 17 May** SY Review Team have identified some likely suspects: 'Portuguese Police must now act', they demand
Cristobell Today
I don't think I would be celebrating if I were in the McCann camp. It is clear that SY are working closing with the PJ - ten trips to Portugal, and it is highly unlikely that the Portuguese will agree to any more wild goose chases. The retiring detective has not stated that anyone in the files has been ruled out, in fact several will need to be re-interviewed, if only to eliminate them from the enquiry so that they can focus on a smaller group. The fact that he has used the word 'group' is interesting, most of us are only aware of one 'group' and I would imagine that Hewitt and Murat, would have been referred to as 'individuals of interest'.



She should have stopped at I don't think instead of carrying on to prove it.

'I would imagine' - yes, we know that.

Can they really, truly not see the utter STUPIDITY of remarks like that?

They might at least try remembering which country the McCanns and their friends live in.

Clue - it's not the one where the PJ are the police.

But Madeleine's abductor/s may well be in the country where the PJ are the police.

Or is that too hard for them?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-british-police-identify-1894726

Madeleine McCann: British police identify potential suspects and urge Portuguese cops to make arrests
17 May 2013 13:13
Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve on May 3, 2007

British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have drawn up a list of potential suspects who may have abducted the schoolgirl.

They have identified a "good number" of people who should be quizzed by their colleagues in Portugal and have urged authorities to investigate the leads as a matter of urgency.

And the top cop working on the review case has revealed that it was "perfectly probable" that the suspect responsible for Maddy's disappearance could be identified from information which is already contained in the Portuguese files.

Portugal’s attorney general has ruled out a new inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance but the comments by the head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, has raised hopes of a fresh investigation.

Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve on May 3, 2007.

The little girl was snatched from her holiday apartment as her parents dined at a tapas restaurant with friends nearby.

Madeleine's parents have refused to give up hope that they might find their daughter.

Speaking to the Evening Standard, DCS Campbell, said the review team had done a "fantastic" job in identifying "further investigative and forensic opportunities."

He said: "There are a lot of people of interest. There are people who could be properly explored further, if only to be eliminated."

He explained: "We have to ask ourselves why are cases unsolved and, on many occasions, we find we passed the suspects by already and the suspect sits within our system."

DCS Campbell still believes there is a possibility that Maddy is still alive and added: "The Portuguese hopefully will pursue some of these investigative opportunities with our assistance. There is room for further work and collaboration to resolve the case."



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jasmine ‏@alfibab3
@MrsMLouis Well that puts their theory that SY are investigating #mccann s guilt in the trash bin. Have been invest abduction all along

Yup. It really is past time the McCann-haters woke up and smelled the coffee. Not that anyone is complaining about them making spectacles of themselves, as usual, over today's news.

http://news.sky.com/story/1092302/madeleine-mccann-case-new-suspects

Madeleine McCann Case: New Suspects
2:19pm UK, Friday 17 May 2013



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Police have identified a number of suspects in the case of missing three-year-old Madeleine McCann, Scotland Yard discloses.

Mari Welzel ‏@umweltbuerger 3h
@RosalindaHu @AnnaEsse It is May, 2013, 6yrs later,Blacksmith mentioned things will happen soon Hope he'll b back to tell us more #McCann

Too busy cleaning egg off his face, and burning TOAST!

Sickeningly, but not surprisingly, the 8rs are now in a frenzy of one-handed typing because of Brunt's stupid, and completely erroneous, tweet - it really is time he hung up his dirty raincoat.

It isn't the first time he's come out with total BOLLEAUX about this case, or others, but the 8rs hang on his every word.

Which is why they are proving, yet again, that they hate Madeleine McCann as much as they do the rest of the family, and cannot bear the thought of her being alive.

Shame on them - and on Brunt. He's an embarrassment to his profession.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4931716/new-madeleine-mccann-suspects.html


New Madeleine McCann suspects
Met says there are ‘good number’ of people who should be questioned

By JACK LOSH
Published: 31 minutes ago

POLICE have identified a number of suspects who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, it was sensationally revealed today.
Scotland Yard’s top detective said there were a “more than a handful” of individuals who should be questioned.
Investigators have drawn up a list of people who they say are “of interest” to the inquiry, urging the Portuguese authorities to investigate the new leads.
Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from her family’s holiday flat in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007.

The official Portuguese inquiry was abandoned in 2008 but Scotland Yard launched a review of the case three years later.
After examining a huge amount of material, the review team last year announced that it had identified 195 potential leads.
Today Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell said it was “perfectly probable” that information which could identify the person behind Madeleine’s disappearance was already within the Portuguese files.
Speaking on the eve of his retirement from the Met, DCS Campbell, the head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, added: “There are a lot of people of interest.
“There are people who could be properly explored further, if only to be eliminated.”
He went on: “We have to ask ourselves why are cases unsolved and, on many occasions, we find we passed the suspects by already and the suspect sits within our system.”
DCS Campbell said Madeleine could well still be alive, saying: “You only have to look at the case in Cleveland, Ohio, and the European cases.
“Of course, there is a possibility she is alive, you cannot exclude it.”


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4931716/new-madeleine-mccann-suspects.html#ixzz2TZTR6TVl

Good - he's corrected his ghastly error - I hope the 8rs take note:

martinbrunt ‏@skymartinbrunt 3h
#mccann Scot Yard says it has identified suspects for disappearance of Madeleine McCann in its review of Portuguese case

http://news.sky.com/story/1092302/madeleine-mccann-new-suspects-identified

Now updated:

A spokesman for the McCann family, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Kate and Gerry continue to be encouraged by Operation Grange and are very pleased by the work the police are doing. Beyond that they won't be commenting on any operational matters."

The Portuguese authorities' handling of the original investigation was widely criticised.

The police named Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, as suspects but they were cleared in July 2008 when the attorney general ruled there was nothing to link them to their daughter's disappearance.

my friends, this was taken from Expresso PT newspaper: same story:

http://expresso.sapo.pt/policia-inglesa-identificou-suspeitos-no-caso-maddie=f807732

yes, this what really matters:

"A spokesman for the McCann family, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Kate and Gerry continue to be encouraged by Operation Grange and are very pleased by the work the police are doing."

Sky news reporting now on the 'list of new suspects'...

guy outside the Yard says they want to trace people....

Reporter in Rothely repeating McCanns' statement of earlier today. All very positive.

About time......

I am waiting for it to sink in with the forkers what the Yard/PJ wanting to TRACE people means, Lily.

It's going to be fascinating to see their reactions when it finally dawns on the tick-tockers that they have been totally, horribly wrong, all along - and that their nastiness is going to haunt them for the rest of their days.

I would personally like to see LE take a close look at those who have been most eager to preach hatred of the McCanns, right from the start - did Morais and co have something to hide? They certainly need to answer a few questions, IMO.

Maybe the forkers and hounders could try to take in the meaning of this?

http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-05-17/scotland-yard-madeleine-mccann-disappearance-case/

Police 'encouraged by progress' in McCann case
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 can confirm that as part of this process we have identified a number of persons of interest, but any suggestion that the MPS is asking the Portuguese Police to make arrests in connection with this inquiry is entirely inaccurate.

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.


They really should try to grasp that the McCanns are NOT suspects and never should have been, and that the Yard are keeping them updated on progress.

this is what truly matters:

"Police 'encouraged by progress' in McCann case

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 can confirm that as part of this process we have identified a number of persons of interest.

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."

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.

They could not be clearer could they?

No wonder Gonc looks rail thin.