Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe on R5

Britain's most senior police officer confirms the Met has the names of three suspects in Madeleine McCann case and is 'closing in'

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said there has been 'progress' in McCann case
Told BBC's Radio 5 Live they have different questions to Portuguese police
Said that his officers had names of suspects involved in case
Declined to say when the suspects would be quizzed about Madeleine

By STEVEN WRIGHT
PUBLISHED: 13:59 EST, 20 February 2014 | UPDATED: 17:45 EST, 20 February 2014



Britain's most senior police officer has suggested his officers are closing in on the people who abducted Madeleine McCann.
Scotland Yard boss Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe admitted his officers have the names of suspects and that ‘some progress’ is being made in the inquiry.

But he declined to be drawn on when the suspects would be quizzed over her disappearance in Portugal seven years ago.
He told BBC’s Radio 5 Live: ‘We have sent three letters of request for international assistance to the Portuguese judiciary, because that is the way their system works.

‘We have got lines of inquiry which are different to the Portuguese Police’s and we are working with them to try to resolve that.
'We are making some progress.’

Asked by presenter Nicky Campbell whether his officers had the names of suspects, he replied: ‘That is correct’.
He declined to comment further.

Sir Bernard’s comments came after the Mail revealed exclusively last month that the Met has identified three burglars as prime suspects for Madeleine’s disappearance.

Analysis of mobile phone data suggests the men were close to the scene of her abduction, at the time she went missing, and that they were in close contact with each other in the hours that followed.

Following our revelations, Portuguese newspapers reported that three former Ocean Club workers are Scotland Yard’s prime suspects over her disappearance.

Details of the men’s alleged links to the Mark Warner-run resort in the Algarve, where Maddie vanished from in 2007, were revealed in a number of Portuguese newspapers with close links to local police.

They were disclosed two days after Portuguese police had a high-level meeting with a visiting Scotland Yard delegation late last month.
At the meeting, Met detectives are reported to have requested bank details of the men, who are thought to have carried out a series of break-ins at the Ocean Club in the run up to Maddie’s disappearance.

Although local media reported the men had been employed at the Ocean Club complex in Praia da Luz, it was not clear whether they were working there at the time Madeleine went missing in May 2007.

Nor was it clear whether they were directly employed by Mark Warner, or through a contractor.



Madeleine, who was then nearly four, 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.

It is now known that between January and May 2007 there had been a four-fold increase in the number of burglaries in the area.


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The Yard seems to be pretty sure who they're looking for, don't they?

And look, haters:

Portugal’s Policia Judiciaria are concentrating their efforts on a theory that a sacked resort worker abducted Madeleine.

All this is coming about Tractorman is coming FROM THE PJ. Not Evil Clarrie.

What has to happen for the haters to wake up and smell the coffee?

Teddy ‏@TeddyShepherd
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe @metpoliceuk

I am putting you on notice, as unfit for purpose.

Doubtless Sir HH will be deeply wounded by the opinion of some hater no-mark.   

Mutton:

As it stands, it appears no-one, not the 37 homicide detectives, nor the PJ are re-interviewing any of the main players closest to Madeleine. The McCanns and the Tapas friends did not take part in any of the reconstructions, most particularly the British one and the Portuguese one. If any of them have been re-interviewed or are going to be, we haven't heard so much as a whisper.

And why should she? It is absolutely NONE of her business. It has nothing to do with any of the haters, and they'd be well-advised to lost their unwarranted sense of entitlement to meddle in matters that have nothing to do with them.

Anyway, what would be the point of the real police telling the armchair defectives and conspiraloons anything? They're all too dumb to grasp that it's the PJ who are interested in Tractorman.

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/frederick-forsyth/460912/We-should-not-celebrate-the-WW1-senseless-slaughter-in-the-mud

Scroll down and what do we find?

End to mystery of Madeleine?
MANY of us watch the seemingly limitless supply of police dramas on TV, some of them absolutely ludicrous if one knows even a smidgen of the real, slogging, back-breaking hard work that goes on behind the solving of real crimes.

Hardest of all are the cold cases: crimes where years have elapsed and the trail gone cold.

Such a case is the snatching of three-year-old Madeleine McCann seven years ago from her parents’ holiday flat at Praia da Luz, Algarve coast, Portugal.

The Portuguese investigation was an unmitigated fiasco and the child has never been seen since.

Mr and Mrs McCann remain convinced without a shred of evidence that she remains alive... somewhere.

It may just be that all these years later, working on old records and faded memories, Scotland Yard has cracked it.

There were three hardened Portuguese burglars working that resort on that night. The local detectives should have known but didn’t.

The aces from Lisbon should have learned of them but never did.

Scotland Yard worked out they were there and all had mobile phones with each other’s numbers. And that night electronic records now unearthed reveal they all went ballistic as the three villains called each other.

It seems the Portuguese police have traced them and picked them up for some pretty “enhanced” interrogation.

Maybe one of them knows what really happened. Never complain about our bobbies until you have seen the rest.

MarketingMaddie ‏@MarketingMaddie  2h
Judicial Police #PJ is #investigating #death and Scotland Yard #NSY robberies http://www.noticiasaominuto.com/pais/177821/mccann-e-scotland-yard-insatisfeitos-com-trabalho-da-pj … #Maddie #McCann #UK #Portugal

LIAR!       

What it really says is that the PJ are investigating the dead bloke.




Maddie McCann and Scotland Yard dissatisfied with work of PJ
The case is the same, but targets are different. While the Judicial Police (PJ) investigated a dead one under the Maddie case, Scotland Yard is committed to identifying three robbers. This lack of coordination and connection between the two authorities, writes Diário de Notícias (DN) has displeased the parents of Madeleine McCann.

Kate and Jerry McCann have expressed their displeasure about the cooperation, or lack thereof, between the Portuguese and British police. The couple accused the two officials of seeking different targets in an investigation that should be taken together.

PUB

However, not only are the McCanns who are unhappy. Herself Scotland Yard has criticized the Portuguese operations, which focused its investigation on a former employee of the Ocean Club who, however, died. Moreover, British politics, writes the Daily News, complaining of excess bureaucracy by the Portuguese authorities.

Source of English police confesses that it is not being made a "joint investigation" and that "this is not a game," because it is "the life of a child." However, he admits that the work of the two cops are not following the same course.

At this time the PJ and the Public Ministry (MP) are investigating a former employee of the Ocean Club, which, however, died in a tractor accident. For its part, the British seek to identify three robbers who were in Praia da Luz on the night Maddie disappeared.

Yet again, Amaral supporter = LIAR.        

bb1 wrote:Teddy ‏@TeddyShepherd  
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe @metpoliceuk  

I am putting you on notice, as unfit for purpose.

Doubtless Sir HH will be deeply wounded by the opinion of some hater no-mark.   

Of course dear Teddy has to be well aware what may well follow from that remark?

The Portuguese investigation was an unmitigated fiasco and the child has never been seen since.

Odd how the haters are ignoring that. Or maybe not.

They cannot denigrate their pinup boy, can they? Mind you, let us not forget that many people have begged that one for help with their rear ends.