Madeleine McCann: Police to return to Portugal as search reaches 'make or break' moment

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-police-return-portugal-4092680

Madeleine McCann: Police to return to Portugal as search reaches 'make or break' moment
Aug 22, 2014 22:30 By Russell Myers
Up to seven officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Grange will hold meetings with senior Portuguese investigators

British police searching for missing Madeleine McCann are poised to return to Portugal to try to solve the seven-year riddle of the girl’s disappearance.

After weeks of tense negotiations, a team of Scotland Yard detectives will travel to the seaside resort of Praia da Luz next month.

The latest development is described by sources close to the investigation as a “make-or-break moment”.

Up to seven officers from Operation Grange will hold meetings with senior Portuguese investigators.

It is understood they have been granted permission to interview up to seven key suspects identified earlier this year – three of whom will be questioned for a second time.

The last time the Met officers were in Portugal, in May this year, they conducted interviews with four people, known as arguidos.

The Portuguese term – normally translated as “named suspect” or “formal suspect” – refers to someone who is treated by Portuguese police as more than a witness, but has not been arrested or charged.

One of them, Russian-born Sergey Malinka, has been told he is no longer under suspicion.

But now detectives have been given the go-ahead to question the remaining suspects they believe hold vital information that could help them crack the case.

Analysis of mobile phone data suggests at least three of them were close to the scene when three-year-old Madeleine vanished at the resort on May 3, 2007, and were in contact in the hours that followed.

A source said: “Thousands of pieces of evidence have been re-examined by the Scotland Yard team to get to this stage. This is far from a scatter-gun approach.

“The detectives are acutely aware there is a finite amount of money for the investigation and that they need results. It is hoped they are on the right track to achieving those objectives.”

Portuguese authorities are also understood to have granted permission for Yard officers to investigate new “areas of interest”.

In May, a team of detectives led by Det Chief Inspector Andy Redwood travelled to the Algarve to supervise digs on scrubland near the resort.

But after eight days of searches, using sniffer dogs and ground-penetrating radar, nothing was found.

Portuguese sources have described the Met probe, which has so far cost UK taxpayers more than £6million, as a senseless waste of time.

Madeleine’s parents Kate, 46, and Gerry, 45, from Rothley, Leics, are not expected to travel to Portugal but are being kept informed of developments.

my friend, thank you for this update.

I hope the Yard are getting somewhere, Pedro, however slow progress may seem to us.

Didn't take the conspiraloon hounders long to start...

Does anyone know the times/dates activity from OG has coincided with the libel trial? If this latest jaunt to Portugal is close again to the trial then it ceases to be coincidence. (I think Kate had something to say about coincidences...)

The question is, is it a bad thing or a good thing

No, the question is, Is there a single Amoral supporter that is right in its head?

It gets worse:

Make or break?
Post Tony Bennett Today
'Make or break'?

IMO: Break.

New publicity conveniently surfacing less than three weeks before the publication on 9/11 (11 September) of Summers and Swan's new book, 'Looking for Madeleine', which will be heavily promoted and says that the McCanns have nothing whatsoever to do with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

All of this being IMO 'clearing the ground' before Operation Grange make an announcement ahead of the General Election to the effect: "We tried so hard, so very very hard, to find the abductor, but tragically failed in the end"

A civil war is raging in Europe.

The Middle East is in flames.

Scotland may well be about to leave the UK.

Maniac Brit snackbars are decapitating Americans.

Assorted armchair generals are running round shouting, Don't panic! There's a terrorist under the bed!

You know, important things, the sort of things that are any PMs nightmare.

Yet Bennett and co actually think the McCann case is more important? Goes to show how narrow and obsessive their worldview is.

Yet Bennett and co actually think the McCann case is more important? Goes to show how narrow and obsessive their worldview is.

It's probably the only thing he thinks about for some time.....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kate-mccanns-torment-madeleine-wont-4092857#ixzz3BAOib0it

Kate McCann's torment that Madeleine won't be starting ''big school'' next week
Aug 22, 2014 23:12 By Tracey Kandohla
Kate told a close pal: “It’s such a big step and she would have been so excited. It hurts so much that we won’t be doing it”

Kate McCann has told of her sorrow that missing Madeleine is not home to start “big school” next week.

Her eldest daughter would have turned 11 in May and been due to move up to secondary school on Thursday.

Kate told a close pal: “Madeleine should be here and I should be helping her prepare for big school like all her friends.

“It’s such a big step and she would have been so excited. It hurts so much that we won’t be doing it.”

The former GP, who gave up work to be a full-time mum, said to her friend: “We never thought she would be missing for this long.

"She was always such a bright, inquisitive little girl at nursery school but sadly we never got to see her develop at primary school.

“And now she should be going off to big school...it’s so tough not knowing where she is and sometimes our hope feels so far away."


But Kate, 46, and heart doctor husband Gerry, 45, of Rothley, Leics, refuse to give up hope of ever finding their daughter alive.

She was aged three, just nine days short of her fourth birthday, when she vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz in May 2007.

During a BBC TV interview three months ago to mark the latest anniversary of her disappearance Kate told how she was already thinking of Maddie’s educational transition.

She said: “It’s such a long time. She’s that bit older now. You think 11 - she’s due to start big school at the end of August, beginning of September.

"She is still part of our lives and we’re never going to give up on her or forget her and we’ll do whatever we can to find her.”

Kate’s pal added: “It’s not surprisingly she feels upset. There’s such a buzz around that now summer’s over some of the local kids are going up to secondary school.

"Kate’s great uncle Brian Kennedy from Rothley, who was a former head teacher, and her great aunt Janet, an ex teacher, would have been so interested too in Madeleine’s progress.”

The primary school in Thurmaston, Leics, which had been holding a place for Maddie for seven years, told of its regret they were never able to welcome her.

As British Police continue their search for the youngster and are poised to quiz more suspects, Kate and Gerry still patiently wait and pray for a significant breakthrough in their investigation.

As the couple’s friends and neighbours prepare for the secondary school transfer for their sons and daughters, they look forward to the new school year for their nine-year-old twins Sean and Amelie.

They attend Bishops Ellis Primary in Thurcaston, Leics, where Maddie should have first been a pupil in August 2007 and which has pledged to continue raising funds for her.

It states on its website: “We are sorry that we have not been able to welcome Madeleine to our school.

"Our thoughts and prayers remain very much with the McCanns as we continue to pray with them for Madeleine.”


A online link directs users to Maddie’s “Don’t give up on me” posting and the school praises pupils for their recent drama and fitness fund raising efforts to boost the missing girl’s public fund.

Her family have recently kept busy with trips to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and last Saturday to support Maddie’s favourite team Everton against newly promoted Premier League Leicester City at home.

McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “Any anniversary or significant date for Madeleine is a particularly difficult time for Kate and Gerry. But this is a private time for the family and they will not discuss it publicly.”




It'll come as no surprise to anyone that the haters - especially the hounders - are making vile remarks about this. Doubtless dredged from the bottom of their sick 'minds'.

bb1, your words are mine:

"I hope the Yard are getting somewhere, however slow progress may seem to us."

A forker ponders:

In Britain, it is outlawed as illegal and unethical to use human body parts to train cadaver dogs.

Then I started to wonder where did Martin Grimes train his dogs?

1. They didn't start out as 'his' dogs.

2. Like all other UK police dogs, they were trained on various substitutes, including pig. As sane people have been trying to din into thick hater skulls for years.

I suppose it's too much to hope that they are ever going to wake up and realise they have been fed nonsense about Dogs Not Lying by some very nasty people?

I doubt it, Bonny. All that forking has upset their wiring....

My friends, this was taken from Correio da Manhã newspaper:

http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/ultima-hora/scotland-yard-regressa-a-portugal-para-investigar-o-caso-maddie

England

Scotland Yard returns to Portugal to investigate the Madeleine case

British authorities continue investigation into Maddie's disappearance in Portugal next month.

Scotland Yard, the British police, will return to Portugal in September to continue to investigate the case of the disappearance of Madeleine.

After several weeks of negotiations between the Portuguese and British authorities, it was accepted the return of the Scotland Yard to Praia da Luz in the Algarve. According to British newspaper 'The Mirror', to the British authorities this is the most crucial time of the event.

That photo of Kate in the Mirror, shows how this is taking a toll on her. The poor lady - don't envy what she is having to go through.

lily, your words are mine.

My friends, this was taken from Notícias ao Minuto newspaper:

http://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/266159/scotland-yard-volta-a-portugal-para-fase-determinante-do-caso-maddie

Praia da Luz Scotland Yard returns to Portugal for determining phase of the Maddie case

At least seven officers from Scotland Yard will return to Portugal to continue to investigate the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, as the British authorities to the case is in a decisive phase, according to the Mirror.

After several weeks in intense negotiations with the Portuguese authorities was agreed that a team of British police returned to the scene of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, seven years ago, in Praia da Luz, next month, advances the Mirror.

Officials say this is the most crucial time of the case and so-seven British officials will meet with Portuguese researchers.

By all indications are allowed to question the seven suspects indicted earlier this year, three of which will be questioned for the second time.

Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann will not come to Portugal, but will always be aware of any development.

also taken from A Bola newspaper:

http://www.abola.pt/mundos/ver.aspx?id=496618

British police returns to the Algarve to investigate Maddie case

Agents from Scotland Yard will return to Portugal to continue to investigate the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, according to the Mirror.

To the British authorities, this is a pivotal moment in the case of the missing child in Praia da Luz, and why seven members of the Yard will meet with Portuguese researchers.

through all indications, they are allowed to question the seven suspects indicted earlier this year, three of which will be questioned for the second time.

Thank you for that news, Pedro.

you welcome bb1.

Quiz more suspects? Good. Hope they nail it down to those who are responsible.

British police investigating Madeleine McCann disappearance want to quiz more suspects

BRITISH police probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have formally asked Portuguese authorities for more help, it was revealed yesterday.


By: John Chapman
Published: Thu, August 28, 2014


A new international letter of request has been received from Scotland Yard, Portugal’s Attorney General’s Office confirmed.

The news comes as Operation Grange officers prepare for a further trip to the Algarve next month.

Officials have declined to comment on the content of the latest letter of request.

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman also refused to comment on details of the “fourth request” which was made earlier this month.

But it is thought that British officers want to question suspects in Portugal.

It was not clear last night if public prosecutors on the Algarve coordinating the separate Portuguese inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance on May 3, 2007, have yet approved the Yard’s call.

Previous requests sparked digs at three sites in and around the Praia da Luz resort where Madeleine vanished on a family holiday.

And four men were interviewed as “arguidos” – normally translated as “formal suspects” – in July.

Only one of them is understood to have had his arguido status removed.

British police questioned them through Portuguese colleagues in the hope of confirming their theory that they were part of a burglary gang who panicked after killing Madeleine during a bungled break-in at her family’s holiday apartment and dumped her body.

But all four men insisted they had nothing to do with her disappearance and were released without charge.

A string of witnesses were also quizzed at Faro police station.

Sniffer dogs loaned by South Wales police and used in June to search waste ground in Praia da Luz in a fruitless hunt for clues to her whereabouts are subsequently thought to have swept the car of one of the suspects’ relatives.

Portuguese police have privately dismissed the latest British police work as “senseless.”

They believe Madeleine was snatched by a foreigner no longer in Portugal.

They have still not ruled out the involvement of ex-junkie burglar drug addict Euclides Monteiro who died in a tractor accident in 2009, three years after being sacked by the holiday club where the British youngster and her parents were staying.

His widow says he had nothing to do with the disappearance, however.

Madeleine was three when she vanished from Praia da Luz.

The Yard launched Operation Grange in May 2011 after her parents Gerry, 45, and Kate, 46, of Rothley, Leics, appealed to David Cameron for help.

Around 40 detectives and civilian staff are dedicated to the inquiry which has so far cost an estimated £6million.

Yard chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said recently: “The investigation is still ongoing and we will not be reducing the team.”

Gerry and Kate say they are encouraged by the lack of evidence to suggest Madeleine was murdered.

They are convinced their daughter could still be alive and will one day be returned to them.

Scotland Yard is offering £20,000 as a reward for information.


http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/504070/British-Maddy-police-new-Portuguese-plea

We need help to find Maddie: Brit police want more Portuguese assistance

BRIT police probing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have asked for more help from the Portuguese in a bid to crack the seven-year mystery.


By Jerry Lawton / Published 28th August 2014


Detectives have sent prosecutors a fifth international letter of request for assistance with their inquiries.

The news comes as officers from the Met Police’s Operation Grange team prepare to return to the Algarve next month following searches for Madeleine and the quizzing of four suspects this summer.

Officials declined to comment on the content of the letter.

But police reportedly want to re-question three of the four suspects – and quiz four new ones.

It was not clear last night if public prosecutors on the Algarve – who are coordinating a separate inquiry into three-year-old Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance in Praia da Luz – have approved the new requests, but they are likely to.

Portuguese detectives have privately dismissed the latest British police work as “senseless”.

They believe that Madeleine was snatched by a foreigner no longer in Portugal.

And they have not ruled out the involvement of an ex-junkie burglar who died in a tractor accident in 2009.


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/396671/Brit-police-want-to-quiz-four-new-suspects-in-Maddie-case

it is obvious that pj is not interested in solving this case, which was a complete fault of amaral, truly despicable behaviour, but that is what to expect from pj.

Thank you, Max.

I am hoping that the remarks attributed to 'Portuguese detectives' are actually just more garbage from the embittered Gonzo and his useless chums; otherwise, it would be worrying that the REAL Portuguese police were so disinterested in finding the truth.

bb1, your words are mine:

"I am hoping that the remarks attributed to 'Portuguese detectives' are actually just more garbage from the embittered Gonzo and his useless chums; otherwise, it would be worrying that the REAL Portuguese police were so disinterested in finding the truth."