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YARD FACE A NETWORK OF EVIL
Former detective suggests Maddie squad are up against a ring of people smugglers.
by James Murray
A former top Scotland Yard detective last night suggested the new investigation into the Madeleine McCann mystery is focused on a network of suspects involved in people-trafficking.

Crime author and undercover operations expert Peter Blakely (?Bleasly) says the fact that the Maddie squad has 38 potential suspect sin the frame suggests they are closing in on an evil gang.

"I don't think we are looking at 38 people who are all unconnected to each other. Judging by the high number of people on their list of...

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Thanks, Greenink. I don't like speculating, generally, it's pointless, and generally wrong, but I get the impression that the Yard know the direction they want to go in?

I don't like the sound of this. Unless they steal children to sell to families. Sheesh. Anything for a bit of hope.

IMO, the paradox is that, if Madeleine was abducted 'to order', then she is far more likely to be alive and well?

There are reasons why children are abducted which do NOT include the worst scenario.

bb1 wrote:IMO, the paradox is that, if Madeleine was abducted 'to order', then she is far more likely to be alive and well?

There are reasons why children are abducted which do NOT include the worst scenario.

You are right. I must not forget this. And I do think Scotland Yard know where they are heading.

My friends, this was taken from The Express newspaper:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/413012/Yard-face-a-network-of-evil-Maddie-police-seeking-people-smuggling-ring

Yard face a network of evil: Maddie police 'seeking people smuggling ring'

A FORMER top Scotland Yard detective last night suggested the new investigation into the Madeleine McCann mystery is focused on a network of suspects involved in people-trafficking.

Crime author and undercover operations expert Peter Bleksley, 53, says the fact that the Maddie squad has 38 potential suspects in the frame suggests they are closing in on an evil gang.

“I don’t think we are looking at 38 people who are all unconnected to each other. Judging by the high number of people on their list of persons of interest, the detectives have a herculean task ahead of them,” Mr Bleksley told the Sunday Express.

Calling it a “unique investigation”, he said: “In a child abduction case of this nature it is highly unusual to have so many potential suspects.

“It suggests to me that the police are trying to work out who the main players are, and who are on the fringes of a possible people-trafficking gang. The detectives sound very bullish. Undoubtedly they are on to something major otherwise they would be setting themselves up for a big fall.”

Last week Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, head of the Operation Grange team of 37 officers, said 12 of the 38 are British and were in Portugal when Madeleine was snatched from an apartment at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz on the Algarve on May 3, 2007.

He added: “We continue to believe there is a possibility that Madeleine is alive.” Neither of Madeleine’s parents or any of their seven friends who accompanied them on holiday are among the 38 people.

Mr Bleksley, a retired detective constable, was involved in countless murder inquiries and operations against organised crime gangs in his 21 years at the Yard.

He said: “It’s very early to say but they appear to be closing in.”

He also believes that old-fashioned police work will crack this most baffling of cases.

“The fact that so many are British gives them all the justification they need to take the investigation into foreign countries,” he explained.

“They will have to pursue their leads with the utmost care, working with the foreign police forces. If they get one thing wrong on the paperwork it could seriously damage the investigation. In the 21st century, abductions and murders are often solved through CCTV images, forensics, and phone and computer records, but in this case we know there is no CCTV of the abduction taking place and the forensics may have been forever compromised because the crime scene was not properly preserved.

“The detectives will have to change their approach to the way we used to operate 20 years ago when you solved cases with witnesses and confessions.”

By now, he added, detectives will be working on a large number of strands.

“The hard work comes by linking people to the various strands you have running and then suddenly it all falls in to place. You have to be very patient”.

He said he expects the investigation to gather pace now and believes the Operation Grange team will be better placed to judge which direction to take their inquiries by this autumn.

He said a news blackout could be invoked so sensitive inquiries can be carried out in secrecy.

Senior officers have not imposed a blackout but have appealed to the media to exercise “restraint” in the coming weeks, when some arrests are expected.

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....And the media have completely ignored that call for restraint.

about: "the media have completely ignored that call for restraint.", I already expected that.

it is good for keeping the case alive, but also increases speculation.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-british-police-denied-2034108

Madeleine McCann: British police denied access to vital DNA clues
7 Jul 2013 00:01
Scotland Yard officers believe samples from clothing, windows, bed linen and furniture at her family’s holiday apartment could still hold DNA traces.

British police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are being denied access to vital evidence by Portuguese authorities.

Scotland Yard officers believe samples from clothing, windows, bed linen and furniture at her family’s holiday apartment could still hold DNA traces.

But Portuguese officials refuse to hand over the evidence gathered after three-year-old Madeleine vanished in the Algarve in 2007.

The deadlock has prevented British officers from ruling out potential suspects and following up nearly 4,000 leads generated after detectives sifted 30,000 documents.

They believe access to the evidence would let them narrow down their list of 38 suspects, including 12 Britons.

Crown Prosecution Service lawyers are being forced to submit a formal request for the evidence. London’s chief Crown prosecutor Alison Saunders and her deputy Jenny Hopkins went to Portugal last month in connection with the Met’s review of the case.

A source said: “The lawyers were sent to begin negotiations to get access to evidence that police believe is very important and is in storage over there.

"The Metropolitan Police force have now asked the Crown Prosecution Service to apply for international letters of request.

“The fear is the Portuguese were so inept in the early stages that much of the DNA may be lost. But we hope that there will still be traces on some of the items.” The Met this week issued an upbeat announcement of “genuinely new” leads and suggested arrests could be made in weeks.

Officers say they are working on the theory that Madeleine, who would now be 10, is alive.

But Portugal’s top lawyer has poured scorn on the Yard’s investigation insisting it has no right to pursue inquiries into Madeleine’s abduction from the Praia da Luz flat.

Yard detectives have also flown to Switzerland to probe the movements of killer Urs Hans von Aesch, who committed suicide after abusing five-year-old Ylenia Lenhard shortly after Madeleine disappeared. She bore a striking resemblance to blonde Madeleine.

Von Aesche, who had been living in Spain, was initially ignored by police in the Algarve who were working on the false theory that Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry played a part in her disappearance.

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I do hope this is just media hot air; if bad elements in Portugal really are behaving like this, then they really cannot start whining and crying if people begin to suspect they're hiding something.

I do hope this is just media hot air; if bad elements in Portugal really are behaving like this, then they really cannot start whining and crying if people begin to suspect they're hiding something.

What else are people supposed to think?

Remember the Australian lady who *cough* allegedly killed herself by whacking herself in the head how many times with an ax?

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/jacinta-rees-murdered-covered-up-by-portugal-police/story-e6frfkp9-1225942731759?from=public_rss

A MELBOURNE woman was murdered in Portugal and her death covered up by police there, a Sunday Herald Sun investigation has found.
Former international model and fashion executive Jacinta Rees was hacked to death with an axe at her cottage in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, two years ago.
In a sequence of events chillingly similar to the death of Britt Lapthorne, local police claim the death was a suicide - despite a coronial examination in Australia finding she died of extensive injuries caused by repeated blows with an axe and evidence of defensive wounds on her arms and legs.
Family members have been investigating the mystery of her killing ever since. They say they have received little help from the Australian Government.
Portuguese authorities contacted by the Sunday Herald Sun would not provide any information.
The family claims consular officials botched its initial dealings with the Portuguese and have abandoned the family in its search for the truth.
"All we want is to know the truth about what happened to her. She was our sister and our parents' child - she deserves better than this," said Jacinta's brother, Cameron.
Jacinta died in April 2008, in the courtyard of her home at Sao Bras de Alportel, near the city of Faro.
Portuguese police told local reporters her death was an accident, then said it was suicide.
But a Victorian Coroners' report says she died from "blunt force injury to the left side of the head".
"This injury pattern with trauma to both head and the left arm raises serious concerns. Further investigations are being undertaken via the Victorian Police Department's homicide squad," it concludes.

An initial Portuguese autopsy report also suggests Jacinta's death was a murder.
"There are signs highly probable of defense being the elements of the autopsy suggestive of homicide with data that favour extreme violence highly difficult to attribute to the self ... ," a translation reads.
Despite those reports, the Portuguese police closed the investigation and passed the case on to the Interior Ministry as a diplomatic matter.
Police spokesman Comandante Guerriero, of the GNR - the Portuguese national police - told a local newspaper "There is no suspicion of murder" and that there was no suspicion of robbery or any other crime.
Mystery surrounds the case. Locals were reticent to speak about it.
Did she know too much?
One theory about Jacinta's death was that she found out something that cost her life.

The area where she lived is a trafficking route from North Africa and the Middle East for the illegal trade in drugs - mostly hashish - and also in stolen children.
The village of Sao Bras de Alportel is 30km from the resort of Praia de Luz where British child Maddy McCann disappeared.
Her family said child smuggling was an issue Jacinta was concerned about and might have spoken up about.
"Jacinta may have stumbled across something," brother Cameron said.
"She left a note for someone saying she was leaving and she did not know how things would work out and asked that they forgive her, but the police construed it as a suicide note," he said.
"It wasn't a suicide note - she was scared of something.
"Jacinta may have stumbled across something."

The Rees family said they felt let down by the Federal Government.
They said the Lapthorne family and the victims of the Kokoda air crash were given appropriate help and compassion while they had received little help.
The family had to pay for the repatriation of Jacinta's body and was eventually reimbursed by the Government.
"We were contacted by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in April 2008 to say that Jacinta had passed away. We were told she had committed suicide," Cameron's wife, Louise, said.
"It took us a month to bring her home. It was a while before her body arrived home."
Two days before bringing Jacinta home, the Rees family asked the Victorian Coroner to do an autopsy.
"The Coroner agreed and there was a DNA test done first which identified the remains as Jacinta," Louise said.

"At the start of the autopsy, the Coroners' office called in the homicide squad.
"Her injuries were so apparent and appalling - it was obvious she had been brutally murdered.
"It clearly was not a suicide."

Government 'abandoned us'
The Portuguese police had said she died from a self-inflicted wound to the forehead and there were no signs of attack or defence.
"But Jacinta's skull had been caved in with an axe. She clearly had defensive wounds also.
"Her elbow had been shattered, her knee was damaged and there were four separate wounds to her head - each of which could have killed her.
"She suffered a horrendous death and she most certainly fought for her life.

"The GNR determined this was a suicide and our embassy concurred.
"To this day, no one has given us an answer as to what happened to Jacinta. We've sent off letters to heaps of people in positions of influence. No one's interested, absolutely no one," she said


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/jacinta-rees-murdered-covered-up-by-portugal-police/story-e6frfkp9-1225942731759#ixzz2YMG1Ane1

The area where she lived is a trafficking route from North Africa and the Middle East for the illegal trade in drugs - mostly hashish - and also in stolen children.
The village of Sao Bras de Alportel is 30km from the resort of Praia de Luz where British child Maddy McCann disappeared.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/jacinta-rees-murdered-covered-up-by-portugal-police/story-e6frfkp9-1225942731759#ixzz2YMG8qZJ0

No doubt that it's just one of those co-incidences that Jacinta was murdered near Faro, when Amaral was working his ticket with Faro PJ.

Amaral supporters really do need to open their eyes, and see what they are part and parcel of; right now, they're acting like fanatical Nazis in Spring 1945, just before that evil empire fell.

They are acting like those stupid woman who write to serial killers and such and tell them that they will wait for them if they can get married now.

They probably have shrines to Saint Goncalol in their living-rooms......

   

It's actually sickening to look at those two examples of admiration for Gonc.

Their adoration of dirty cops and convicted torturers is rather vomit-inducing.

No accounting for taste, is there?  

Showing all his usual care and attention to detail, pretendypete sneers:

The British Press gets better every day.
Post  PeterMac Today

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/news/maddie-donal-macintyre-investigates-baffling-cold-case

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BRITISH?

Since when is DUBLIN in Britain?


The postal address and general switchboard number for Sunday World is: Independent House 27 - 32 Talbot Street Dublin 1. Ireland.

Dublin hasn't been in BRITAIN for nearly 100 years.  Mind you, his adored Amoral also thought the Smith family were subjects of the Crown, and not citizens of the Republic, and had the nerve to blame Britain for his own ignorance, so what else can we expect?

I wonder if Petey helped Amoral out?