MADELEINE BOMBSHELL - Police net closes in on just one man who is key to the mystery

Many thanks, Max. Let's hope this finally leads somewhere.

McCanns are given £85,000 boost to fund Madeleine search for another six months as police reveal they are closing in on her kidnapper
Kate and Gerry McCann are 'very grateful' for the support by Scotland Yard
The couple face the agonising milestone 10th anniversary of her abduction
Metropolitan Police confirmed the Home Office had approved the extra funding


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Stand by for inarticulate screaming, screeching and carpet-chewing from the hate squad.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/778047/madeleine-mccann-police-investigation-new-lead-one-man-key


Madeleine Bombshell: Police net closes in on just one man who is key to the mystery

DETECTIVES investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have identified a person they want to question and have been given an extra £85,000 to follow up the crucial lead.

By CAROLINE WHEELER - EXCLUSIVE
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Mar 12, 2017

The hunt was due to end within weeks as funding ran out. But in a fresh development detectives said there is a specific person of interest they need to question.

The lead is seen as solid enough to persuade the Home Office to grant the extra money which will extend the search until September.
It means the investigation will continue past the 10th anniversary of Madeleine’sdisappearance in May.

She vanished from her bed in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz while her parents ate a meal nearby with friends just days before her fourth birthday in 2007.

Police said there is one individual they want to speak to who was in the same area of Portugal when she went missing.

International intelligence agencies have been working together to find the “person of interest” who detectives believe may hold the key to solving the case.

Had the information not been deemed a “solid live lead” then the £13million police investigation would have been wound up.
The Home Office last night confirmed that the Metropolitan Police had been awarded an extra £85,000 in operational costs for Operation Grange to continue.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Following an application from the Metropolitan Police for special grant funding the Home Office has confirmed £85,000 in operational costs for Operation Grange for the period April 1 until September 2017.

“As with all applications the resources required are reviewed regularly and careful consideration is given before any new funding is allocated.”

Senior officers admit the investigation of the new lead is the “last throw of the dice” in their hunt.

But the Met is taking the development so seriously that leading Whitehall officials are being briefed on its progress.

An insider said: “There is just one person who detectives want to speak to who was near to the area where Madeleine disappeared almost 10 years ago.

“An international search has been underway to find them.”

Last night Policing Minister Brandon Lewis, who signed off the latest payment, said: “I am pleased to be able to support the British police who are trying to get to the bottom of what happened to Madeleine McCann and give some kind of closure and justice to her family.”

At the height of Scotland Yard’s inquiries more than 30 detectives and support staff were working on Operation Grange based at Belgravia police station in central London.

When the inquiry was in full swing a team of trained specialists carried out detailed searches of carefully chosen scrubland near where Madeleine was taken from the coastal holiday spot on May 3, 2007.

Now Detective Chief Inspector Nicola Wall, who leads the small team, has the unenviable task of trying to make a breakthrough with limited resources and a ticking clock before the September cut-off date.

Detectives are now confident the net is closing in on the key lead which is why an application was made to the Home Office for extra funding and a stay of execution for the investigation.

Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry remain convinced their daughter could still be alive.
They had invested huge hopes in Operation Grange to end their nightmare and were relieved that the once well-financed formal police probe allowed them to halt their own private investigations.

After Grange was launched in May 2011 the 48-year-old doctors from Rothley, Leicestershire, resumed relatively normal lives with heart expert Gerry working full time at Glenfield Hospital near their home and Kate concentrating on bringing up their twins, Sean and Amelie, now aged 11.

Kate said last year: “The urge to look for Madeleine absolutely hasn’t changed at all.

"We will never give up.

"I want an end, an answer. Whatever that it is.”

Operation Grange was launched after a personal plea from Kate to then prime minister David Cameron after the Portuguese closed down their own inquiry.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “The investigation is ongoing.”

Detectives are now confident the net is closing in on the key lead which is why an application was made to the Home Office for extra funding and a stay of execution for the investigation.

Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry remain convinced their daughter could still be alive.

The money wouldn't have been granted without good reason.

This has lifted my spirits somewhat. And those of The McCanns, no doubt.

Most entertaining to see the hate squad acting like those Japanese soldiers that were often found in remote jungles in the 70s, still fighting a war that ended thirty years previously.

They simply cannot face the fact that they are totally wrong, that their cherished shibboleths are a load of bigoted bollox, and that there is no vast, international Dark Forces conspiracy against their beloved Amoral.

Sad.

I nearly choked on my tea when I read The Mail this morning. Tis so obvious what would happen. But they won't want to talk about this for too long.

Sabot wrote:
This has lifted my spirits somewhat.  And those of The McCanns, no doubt.

Anyone who has actually read even the online amateur translations of the police files, and not simply watched some crappy, pro-Amaral YouTube version of them, can see for themselves that the McCanns are innocent of everything except making a catastrophically bad decision, Sabot.

Let's hope that the Yard can find the person/s who abducted Madeleine McCann, and who must be buoyed up by every disgusting hate post abusing her family.

Possibly no longer in Europe, Bonny, and therefor harder to track down or catch up with. I have a couple of theories. But whoever they are they won't be impossible to trace.

Extradition might be another thing, and there are some places that Madeleine can't be snatched from for several quite logical reasons.

Extradition might be another thing, and there are some places that Madeleine can't be snatched from for several quite logical reasons.

The hate squad can't - or won't - grasp that that is the reason Madeleine is a Ward of Court, Sabot. No, it's nothing to do with custody, it means she is under the protection of the Crown, wherever in the world she may be found.

It means that she would be taken to the nearest British consulate or embassy, and then on the first BA or Virgin flight back to Heathrow and her parents.

bb1 wrote:
Extradition might be another thing, and there are some places that Madeleine can't be snatched from for several quite logical reasons.

The hate squad can't - or won't - grasp that that is the reason Madeleine is a Ward of Court, Sabot. No, it's nothing to do with custody, it means she is under the protection of the Crown, wherever in the world she may be found.

It means that she would be taken to the nearest British consulate or embassy, and then on the first BA or Virgin flight back to Heathrow and her parents.

Getting Madeleine out and to an embassy is what worries me, Bonny. First they have to prove that it is Madeleine, which won't be easy. Whoever has her won't be offering her DNA beforehand.

It always fascinates me that the haters don't - or won't - grasp that Madeleine could be anywhere in the world, Sabot. They don't seem to know that these things called 'jet airliners' have been invented....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-39246538

I wonder, is it Smithman the police are after?

bb1 wrote:It always fascinates me that the haters don't - or won't - grasp that Madeleine could be anywhere in the world, Sabot. They don't seem to know that these things called 'jet airliners' have been invented....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-39246538

I wonder, is it Smithman the police are after?

You all know who I think Smithman is. But he won't still be in possession of Madeleine, having passed her on to whoever he sold her to.

But no one would go to such risky lengths to abduct a four year old child just to sell her to a paedophile. It doesn't make sense.

I pray you are right, Sabot.

This has lifted my spirits somewhat. And those of The McCanns, no doubt.

Many thanks, Max. Let's hope this finally leads somewhere.

My friends, this was taken from Sky News:

http://news.sky.com/story/madeleine-mccann-police-funding-extended-to-keep-search-alive-10799315

Thank you, Pedro.

There is one person who was near the area where Madeleine went missing who police want to speak to, the Sunday Express reported

I can't think of anyone who is un-accounted for except Smithman?

Agreed.  

you welcome bb1.

Of course, if the Yard do manage to track down Smithman, it will be further proof of just how totally incompetent Gonzo was.

I'd still like to know why Gonzo cancelled the only reconstruction that would actually have been valuable with that bollox about 'closing air space'.

he refused to do that reconstruction due to the fact that it would jeopardized his chance of become a celebrity, which was a way to feed his greed.

According to Correio da Manha, the new suspect is portuguese :


http://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/ha-um-novo-suspeito-no-desaparecimento-de-maddie-mccann


There is a new suspect in the disappearance of Maddie McCann British police received more funds to follow new clues, which will point to Portuguese citizens.

By Pedro Zagacho Gonçalves | 12:38


The English investigators who are in charge of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a girl who disappeared in 2007 in Praia da Luz in the Algarve, have received more funds for the investigation to last at least until September.

Police will have clues pointing to the existence of a new suspect.

VIDEO English police have new clue about Madeleine McCann



Inspectors want to question a Portuguese citizen

Funding for research funding would be suspended in the coming weeks, but now the British government has approved an extension of more than 96,000 euros to investigate this new suspect, who will be Portuguese.

The man was spotted near the Ocean's Club, where Kate and Gerry McCann were with their children at the time of the girl's disappearance. British police are preparing to question the new suspect. "We are pleased to announce this new support to the British police, who are trying to get to the bottom of what happened to Madeleine McCann.

We want to end the history and justice to the family," said Policing Minister Brandon Lewis Saturday. "After requesting new funds for the Metropolitan Police, 85,000 pounds were made available to support the costs of the Grange Opration, which will last from April to September 2017," the spokesman for the British government said.

So far, the investigation into Maddie's disappearance has already cost the British coffers more than 12.5 million euros.

Kate and Gerry McCann, parents of the English girl, also have a fund of more than 800 thousand euros. Some of this money will have been used to pay the legal costs of the lawsuit that the couple filed - and lost - against Gonçalo Amaral, a former PJ inspector.

Madeleine McCann disappeared almost 10 years ago, on May 3, 2007.

That should set the haters off.

Oh, wouldn't it be ironic if it really is Gonzo's chum, Cristovao, the Smithman lookalike, the Yard are interested in?