Portugal's Attorney General receives UK Letter of Request

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Request of British police arrived to investigate suspects in Maddie case
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The Attorney General's Office has received a letter of request on the Madeleine McCann case. Among the steps taken by the British authorities ordered inquiries are the three men who detectives believe the suspects, for having made several phone calls in the tourist resort of Praia da Luz, Lagos, on the night the child disappeared.

The letter of request will now be forwarded to the Court of Portimão and steps should be completed and delivered once again, by the Judicial Police (PJ).

This is the second request for help from the British authorities related to the disappearance, which occurred on May 3, 2007, when the child was three years old.

This is a set of steps that detectives ask which are made in Portugal, in the research taking place in England.

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The tick-tockers won't like that.

Tick-tocker a week ago:


Ian Hitchings ‏@IamIanHitchings
@IsaCNN Hello Isa, I doubt the Portugal AG's office will ever receive the official LoR from the Met Police.

Tick-tockers are all reality-challenged.

The tick-tockers, haters, numties and general lynchmobbers would be well advised to save themselves a lot of grief, and forget any idea they may have that the Yard or the PJ have the slightest interest in the McCanns, or their friends.

They don't.

The Yard have made this crystal clear, as have the PJ.

PJ supporters Claudia and FSoares even repeated what the head of the PJ said on the subject, on Portuguese TV. It really is time it sunk in with the haters.

Whoever it is the Yard/PJ have their eyes on, it is NOT the McCanns.

My friends, this was taken from Jornal de Notícias newspaper:

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/23/world/europe/portugal-uk-madeleine-mccann/

The Madeleine McCann case

Request of British police arrived to investigate suspects in Madeleine McCann case

The Attorney General's Office has received a letter of request on the Madeleine McCann case. Among the steps taken by the British authorities ordered inquiries are the three men who detectives believe the suspects, for having made several phone calls in the tourist resort of Praia da Luz, Lagos, on the night the child disappeared.

The letter of request will now be forwarded to the Court of Portimão and steps should be completed and delivered once again, by the Judicial Police (PJ).

This is the second request for help from the British authorities related to the disappearance, which occurred on May 3, 2007, when the child was three years old.

This is a set of steps that detectives ask which are made in Portugal, in the investigation taking place in England.

That's not fair. You know very well that there have been countless hours of slogging over Google, Facebook, Ancestry.com and other online sites. Not to mention thinking outside the box over drinks, fences and phone lines and e-mails.

Doesn't that count for anything? The armchair defectives must be exhausted from all the effort to make the McCanns guilty.

how long will take until a decision will be made, also how long will take for the PJ to receive the authorisation from the court or from The Attorney General's Office.

No idea, pedro. This is not aimed at you but I do not understand the inefficiency of law in Portugal at all.

No idea, Pedro, I don't understand why everything is so slow in Portugal either.

lily, bb1, your words are mine.

Scotland Yard detectives investigating Madeleine McCann case move a step closer to making arrests with official bid to interview three suspects
Portuguese Attorney General received formal request for access
UK prosecutors have asked to interview three prime suspects
By GERARD COUZENS
PUBLISHED: 17:09, 23 January 2014 | UPDATED: 17:43, 23 January 2014

The prospect of arrests over Madeleine McCann's disappearance moved a step closer today after Portugal's Attorney General's office confirmed it had received a formal request for help from UK prosecutors.
A spokesman for the country's top law officer confirmed it was in receipt of an International Letter of Request thought to ask for access to three 'prime suspects' - but declined to discuss its contents.
The spokesman said the letter would now be forwarded to a court in the Algarve resort of Portimao tasked with investigating the newly-reopened case in Portugal.
Authorities declined to give a timescale on when the letter would be sent or actioned.
Scotland Yard are understood to want to question three local burglars blamed for a string of break-ins in Praia da Luz where Madeleine was snatched in May 2007.
Portuguese detectives acting on a first International Letter of Request sent by Britain last July discovered the men were very close to the scene of Madeleine's disappearance and made an unusually high number of calls to each other in the hours after her abduction.
Portugal's Attorney General's office announced last October the Madeleine McCann inquiry, shelved nearly six years ago, was being reopened at the request of police in Porto who have spent the past three years reviewing the case.

Jose Magalhaes e Menezes, the public prosecutor in charge of the original investigation, is overseeing the reopened inquiry.
He was damning of the original probe pointing the finger at Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry and claimed officers under disgraced former police chief Goncalo Amaral achieved "very little" during their 15 month investigation.

Amaral has claimed in a book which is the subject of an on-going libel trial that the McCanns covered up their daughter's death in their holiday apartment.
Scotland Yard detectives are conducting their own separate criminal inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance called Operation Grange.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the Met operation, has said he continues to believe Madeleine is still alive.
Operation Grange was first launched as a review in 2011 following the intervention of David Cameron in the case.
A spokesman for Madeleine's parents has described the International Letter of Request as a significant development.


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He was damning of the original probe pointing the finger at Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry and claimed officers under disgraced former police chief Goncalo Amaral achieved "very little" during their 15 month investigation

That'll set the Gonzo fanboyz'n'girlz off again.

That'll set the Gonzo fanboyz'n'girlz off again.

You would think they would get used to it by now, Bonny?

You don't seriously think they are going to believe this, do you?

No, of course they aren't, Sabot. They are going to carry on tick-tocking and tide-turning until the day they meet their Maker.

They can't, or won't, see the writing on the wall - possibly because many of them have too much of an emotional investment in their anti-McCann vendetta. They seem to need it to validate themselves?

My friends, this was taken from The Daily Mail newspaper:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544750/Scotland-Yard-detectives-investigating-Madeleine-McCann-case-step-closer-making-arrests-official-bid-interview-three-suspects.html

You don't think Portugal could be deliberately holding this up, do you?

I don't actually, Sabot, IMO delays and time-wasting are endemic in the legal system in Portugal.

Pamela Longhurst Playing Devil's Advocate here. Bear with me... Three suspects, men, who used their phones. Could they be part of the Tapas group as no mention of Burglars!!!!!!!! Also a few forum's have stated Libel case resumes tomorrow 24th.

And why on EARTH would Portimao PJ be involved? Why on EARTH would the Yard need to ask the AG of Portugal for permission to speak to three UK citizens?

The numties really are clutching at straws.

You know how it goes.....twist in knots to connect the dots to the McCanns.

Let's hope the Express is correct, though I will not be holding my breath.

Like you, will wait and see what happens.

Just as a matter of interest, does anyone think they might do a runner? Would it matter if they did? And where could they run too?
Without their cell phones, natch.

Of course I think so, Sabot.

All of The Nasties are hollering about giving the game away. But is there anywhere they could hide?