Scotland Yard Will Take Over Madeleine Case From Portugal's Judiciary

Home Secretary Theresa May has agreed to fund full-scale Met inquiry
Review identified 20 potential suspects and dozens of new leads
Portuguese authorities have refused to reopen the investigation By 

Stephen Wright and James Slack[b]

PUBLISHED: 00:59, 15 June 2013  |  UPDATED: 01:10, 15 June 2013 




Madeleine: She was abducted six years ago in Portugal


Scotland Yard is to take control of the Madeleine McCann case from the Portuguese authorities, the Daily Mail can reveal.

In a significant development, Home Secretary Theresa May has agreed to fund a full-scale Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance in Portugal six years ago.

It follows a two-year, £5million Met review of her disappearance.

This has identified more than 20 potential suspects and dozens of new leads – but despite the progress made by the review team, the Portuguese authorities have refused to reopen their inquiry. Officials in Portugal say that under the country’s laws they can only reopen the case if there is new evidence, and the new leads do not provide sufficient grounds.

But Met detectives insist their leads could, if properly investigated, result in new evidence and perhaps the case being solved.

With no sign of the deadlock being broken, the Met asked Mrs May to provide Home Office funding for a Scotland Yard investigation into Maddie’s disappearance.

It is understood she has approved the request. It is not known how much additional funding was sought but it is believed it could run into millions of pounds. A statement announcing the Met-led investigation is expected in the next few weeks.

It will endeavour not to upset the Portuguese authorities, who – privately at least – are likely to be unhappy about playing second fiddle to British police.

Under the plan, Yard detectives will seek the assistance of the Portuguese to carry out some inquiries on their behalf. British police do not have jurisdiction in Portugal but they have the right to investigate and prosecute any British suspects who might be linked to Madeleine’s disappearance.


Taking over: Scotland Yard is to take control of the Madeleine McCann case from the Portuguese authorities



Partnership: It is understood that Scotland Yard would ask Portuguese authorities to put any suspect on trial


Sources said that should Scotland Yard gather  sufficient evidence to prosecute a foreign national who lives overseas, they will ask the Portuguese authorities to put the suspect on trial. Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in 2007 as her parents dined with friends nearby.

The shambolic Portuguese inquiry was shelved in 2008 but Scotland Yard began a Home Office-funded review in 2011 following the intervention of David Cameron.

He had been lobbied by Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann – who were falsely accused by Portuguese police of being behind her disappearance.

Officials said the progress made by the Yard review vindicated Mr Cameron’s decision to intervene.

A review by the Met police identified 20 potential suspects and dozens of new leads into the disappearance of Maddy McCann


Last year the officer in day-to-day charge of the review, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, said his team had identified 195 potential leads.   
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It emerged last month that the review had identified more than 20 people ‘of interest’, including Britons, who have not been eliminated from  the case.

Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, who supervised the Met’s review said there were a ‘good number’ of individuals who should be questioned.

Well-placed sources said at least 20 potential suspects – including a number of Britons who were in the Algarve at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance – had not been properly eliminated. One authoritative source said last night: ‘These people include a couple of known child sex offenders who are thought may have been in the Algarve when Madeleine disappeared. More work needs to be done on establishing their movements around the time she vanished. It cannot be disputed that the Portuguese police investigation was very poor.

‘They put all their eggs in one basket in terms of the McCanns being responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance. When they were rightly eliminated, they simply closed the inquiry rather than starting again.’

It is understood that, contrary to some media reports, the Portuguese inquiry did identify everyone who was staying at the Ocean Club when she vanished. Most were British tourists.

The Yard is ‘tidying’ up this aspect of the initial inquiry, trying to nail down people’s movements there.

The fact that so many investigative opportunities were missed has galvanised British detectives who believe there is a real possibility they could unravel the mystery.

Last month, the Mail revealed how as part of the review, Yard detectives had flown to Switzerland to probe the movements of one of the country’s most notorious child snatchers, Urs Hans von Aesch.

The 67-year-old was one of many potential suspects dismissed prematurely by Portuguese police.

Von Aesch kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old girl in his native Switzerland less than three months after Madeleine was abducted. He took his own life after killing his victim, who looked remarkably like Maddie 



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342030/Scotland-Yard-takes-inquiry-Maddies-disappearance-Portuguese-police-fail-make-breakthrough-years.html

Now watch the screeching and carpet chewing start!   And the accusations that the McCanns control SY, Theresa May etc, etc, etc.   LL    

And off we go with Justice forum.   LL  

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There is a major flaw here.

The 'crime' occurred in PORTUGAL, not the UK.

SY or any other UK police force have no jurisdiction in this case.

Meanwhile new leads ????

P.S. Heriberto, are you a close 'associate' of Pedro Silva ?
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Are you PJ Stephen?

They aren't going to take it lying down, are they.  Someone's got to be INNIT.  But tis hard to see what they can say other than the same old same old.

They aren't going to take it lying down, are they. Someone's got to be INNIT. But tis hard to see what they can say other than the same old same old.

Of course not, ma petite, fatsilly is already spouting off on Justice.  And we can expect uproar on hellhole and possibly on MM.  Ah, well, its too hot here to go outside so between the cold drinks and the occasional TV program, there will be some additional  entertainment!  LL    

What great news! 


I am so, so pleased for the McCanns, and that there is still hope. Can't say I am too impressed with Portugal, though - non-co-operation gives the distinct impression they're hiding something embarrassing.


And WTH has who Pedro knows got to do with hanky-stevie-poopy? Doing a bit of stalking on behalf of that sicko freak he hangs around with?


Guess the Amaral supporters are none too happy this morning. Good - long may it continue - though it rather shows where their priorities lie, doesn't it?


Protect the Great Co-Ordinator at all costs, and to Hell with finding Madeleine McCann.

fatsilly is already spouting off on Justice

Whenever they're miffed about something, LL - which is most of the time - they make an asinine remark and stick Mmmmm...... at the end.

It's entirely predictable, and very funny.

It cannot be disputed that the Portuguese police investigation was very poor.
‘They put all their eggs in one basket in terms of the McCanns being responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance. When they were rightly eliminated, they simply closed the inquiry rather than starting again.’


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That won't be going down well.

The shambolic Portuguese inquiry was shelved in 2008 but Scotland Yard began a Home Office-funded review in 2011 following the intervention of David Cameron.
He had been lobbied by Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann – who were falsely accused by Portuguese police of being behind her disappearance.

As a great deal of this is down to Amaral's incompetence, maybe he should be chipping in for the costs? He must get a few euros for his never-ending appearances on Dear Julia.

No?

Tell me, do the hounders really think their opinions on ANYTHING are of relevance? The views of people who have been entertaining themselves abusing the victims of the Boston bombings and insulting the late Drummer Rigby, are of no value whatsoever.

Creatures who are totally incapable of feeling any empathy for mutilated bomb victims are equally incapable of accurately judging ANYTHING.

No wonder the Amaral supporters are all floundering around as, yet again, the real world refuses to act as they think it should.

Jay Elles ‏@Jayelles1 4m
#mccann and friends were reinterviewed by SY AGES ago! Why are haters saying it is only going to happen now? Completely out of touch?..

Yup. Dumb as a sack of hair, the whole lot of them. And nasty with it - just watch the Amaral supporters getting even worse as it finally sinks in that events are not going the way they want.

It's too much to expect that it will ever dawn on them that they've believed a pack of lies all along.

Any hint of interference could see some butt kicking done in the haters quarters.

Very true, Tony. Hoho didn't pick the best of weeks to big herself up, did she?

Makes you wonder why they have this compulsion to meddle in police matters, doesn't it? Or are they under orders from Gonc HQ to interfere?

But, HoHo say she has them there contacts in that there Scotland Yard.
And, I'm the Queen's cousin

She and the rest of the Amaral cheerleaders would be well advised to grasp which way the wind is blowing, and slink back under their rocks before they find themselves getting media coverage they really will not like, Tony.

They won't, though - they don't even seem capable of understanding the English language, so frantically are they trying to spin this news report.

I know of at least two of them who are in for a nasty shock.

Good, Tony - long overdue.

Know what is really fascinating? The way all the Amaral-supporting trolls appear to have forgotten that-

IT WAS THE MCCANNS WHO BEGGED SCOTLAND YARD TO RE-INVESTIGATE THE CASE.

The hater trolls appear to have wiped this rather important detail from their 'minds'.

Good point here:

http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=1801.0

I'm sure Amaral will be pleased, didn't he want the case reopened. He will be able to divulge that ace, at long last.

Or he would, if he had ever had one....

If he's heard what's in the Mail, he's probably locked himself the loo; maybe we should make jokes about Andrex and Immodium?

Now on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22918857

Anthony Bennett is obviously still hoping that The McCanns will be found guilty.  You have to admire his brain dead stamina.

I think many foreigners don't grasp the idea that you aid your nationals when they get into trouble elsewhere.   Brits don't abandon them to their fate, they do try and help if at all possible.  Perhaps some countries not too far away from the UK and with a fascist police force should really take note of this fact.   LL

Seriously, are they genuinely as STUPID as they are appearing to be this fine summer's morning?

Or is their hatred so important to them, they have so much time and emotion invested in Amaral's rubbish, that they are totally in denial of reality? They cannot process today's information rationally or accurately?

It is positively obscene that Amaral saw fit to advance his career and then his bank balance on the back of a missing foreign child, especially a British child
Brits don't take kindly to this sort of fascist carry on. Apart from the mentally derange, that is.
He really shouldn't have written that book you know.  But then I expect he knows that now as well.

A better man than Amaral could have written a first-class book, Sabot - an honest book.

A proper view of events from his angle would have been invaluable. Why he wrote that garbage, and invented sh*t about family liason officers, lollipops, etc., is a matter for his conscience.

As is his appalling smearing of Robert Murat - did he do that in revenge?

As we know, any resemblance to the police files is pure coincidence.

An honest man would have written an honest book, and taken time to do so.  No-one would have minded if he had explained his thinking at the time, and admitted he got a lot wrong - especially that he failed to understand the DNA non-results.

It's irritating to see his fan club STILL repeating his basic error.

15/37!!!!!!!

Remember how annoyed Sandra Felguieras was when she found out Amaral and co had been talking bullsh*t about dogs and DNA?

Instead of honesty, Amaral chose to churn out a pot-boiling Penny Dreadful, which his thicko cult think is great literature.

Why it never dawns on them that the only person telling lies is the convicted perjurer, I do not know.