Madeleine: Yard Goes To Spain (merged)

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Madeleine McCann: Yard Cops Fly To Spain

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24017941-yard-officers-in-spain-as-search-for-maddy-crosses-the-border.do

Madeleine McCann cops fly to Spain as part of case review

Scotland Yard detectives have flown to Spain as part of their review of the Madeleine McCann case.



Officers spent three days with Spanish colleagues in Barcelona last month discussing the girl's disappearance across the border in Portugal.

The Metropolitan Police force has said there would be no limits in its re-examination of the search.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday flat in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents Kate and Gerry dined with friends nearby.

Police have also travelled to Portugal three times in connection with the fresh review, the force said.

Detectives are unwilling to discuss what led officers to travel to Barcelona to meet Spanish police between November 23 and 25.

But a Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The review continues. There has been very good co-operation with Portuguese authorities and liaison will continue.

"We are not prepared to discuss specific details of these visits nor speculate about any future deployments to Portugal or elsewhere."

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, the senior investigating officer, was understood to be among a team of detectives who went on the trips.

A total of 30 people are now working on the force's Operation Grange.

The review prompted criticism when it was launched in May, with politicians expressing concerns that it would divert resources from other crime victims.


It was sparked after a request from Home Secretary Theresa May supported by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Portuguese detectives, helped by officers from Leicestershire Police, carried out a massive investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

But the official inquiry was formally shelved in July 2008 and since then no police force has been actively looking for the missing child.

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Excellent news!

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24017941-yard-officers-in-spain-as-search-for-maddy-crosses-the-border.do

Scotland Yard officers in Spain as search for Maddy crosses the border

Justin Davenport, Crime Editor

Scotland Yard detectives examining the Madeleine McCann case have flown to Spain, the Standard can reveal.

Homicide officers have met Spanish colleagues in Barcelona in the last two weeks to hold talks over her disappearance.

The trip widens inquiries by officers carrying out the "investigative review" into the three-year-old's disappearance from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007. Police are believed to be discussing reports that Madeleine may have been abducted and smuggled across the border to Spain.

Detectives have also travelled to Portugal three times to meet detectives involved in the original investigation.

Kate and Gerry McCann, Madeleine's parents, issued a statement today hailing the work of the Metropolitan Police, saying : "We are pleased that the review is making progress."

Their comments came after they made an emotional appearance at the Leveson inquiry into press standards, when they told how they were left distraught by suggestions they were responsible for their daughter's death.

Scotland Yard was called in to carry out a review of the McCann files this year after a request by Prime Minister David Cameron. The McCanns had asked him to help revive the search for their daughter, who disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday while the family was on holiday in the Algarve.

She vanished from a holiday flat in the ressort of Praia da Luz as her parents, both doctors, were dining with friends nearby.

Since then there have been hundreds of "sightings" of Madeleine around the world but none confirmed. The official police inquiry into her disappearance was shelved in July 2008 but private detectives employed by the McCanns continued the search. Scotland Yard says the trips to Portugal, and now Spain, are part of "laying the ground work" for future co-operation between the police forces.

They are playing down any suggestion of a breakthrough in the case but the visits raise the possibility that British detectives will be involved in an active role in any future inquiries. In July Scotland Yard said it would examine all the evidence connected to the case, including material gathered by private investigators.

One theory - among the many others - was that the child was snatched by a paedophile gang and smuggled over the border to Spain an hour's drive away, or even taken there by boat. There were sightings of someone matching her appearance in Spain shortly after she disappeared and Portuguese authorities were criticised for not alerting border and police officials until 12 hours after she went missing.

The British team is believed to have been discussing these reports with Spanish colleagues.

Detectives spent the first five months reading a huge file of case material which had to be translated into English from Portuguese.

The Met says it has been in close liaison with the McCann family about their actions. The Yard emphasises that the Portuguese police remain the "lead force".

A Met Police spokesman said: "There has been very good co-operation with Portuguese authorities and liaison will continue.

"Officers have travelled to Portugal three times in connection with the investigative review and three officers travelled to Barcelona. They are continuing to discuss how to take it forward and we are hopeful that we will be able to do that."


The Met says it has been in close liaison with the McCann family about their actions.

Pitchforkers still feel like declaring that the McCanns and Ms Hudson lied on oath? They didn't - only the likes of Gonc do things like that.

Merging, Pedro:

https://jatyk2.forumotion.co.uk/t845-madeleine-yard-goes-to-spain

Oh look, the ghouls are out already..

Re: Scotland Yard Officers in Spain - Standard
Justiceforallkids Today at 1:58 pm

Homocide means they are searching fora dead body does it not?????????

It can scarcely contain itself at the thought of a child being dead.

[quote="bb1"]Oh look, the ghouls are out already..



Homocide means they are searching fora dead body does it not????????? Err, I assume for a dead homosexual? LL

I didn't even register that, LL, I was disgusted by the glee with which it entertained the idea of Madeleine being dead.

The other bottom feeders are convinced the Yard have been to Huelva - what for, pray tell? Why would they wish to tour an industrial plant?

I really do think it would be a good idea for the pitchforkers to STOP and take stock of the events of the past week or so....they might then realise they are utterly, totally and horribly wrong.

That would, of course, mean giving up the hatred they enjoy so much, so they probably will just carry on ghouling and being wrong.

the pitchforkers with their insanity

Glad to know that positive progress is being made.

Pedro Silva wrote:the pitchforkers with their insanity

Let's quote one of the reports again, in VERY BIG LETTERS, and see if it can sink in with them.


Police are believed to be discussing reports that Madeleine may have been abducted and smuggled across the border to Spain.



I would be surprised if they didn't talk to M3, Pedro, who knows what odds and ends of info they dug up, which maybe didn't seem relevant at the time.

Detectives have also travelled to Portugal three times to meet detectives involved in the original investigation.


Oh, I do hope the convicted criminal started babbling to them about fridges and blankets - they will instantly have known why he got kicked off the case.

Ah - the Yard were in Portugal last month? When did Morais and co fall off the radar?

I agree with you bb1.

bb1 wrote:Oh look, the ghouls are out already..

Re: Scotland Yard Officers in Spain - Standard
Justiceforallkids Today at 1:58 pm

Homocide means they are searching fora dead body does it not?????????

It can scarcely contain itself at the thought of a child being dead.

Doesn't she just make you want to throw up, does she not. She's nothing more than a Ghoul.

Another story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070187/Detectives-travel-Spain-hunt-Madeleine-McCann.html

Detectives travel to Barcelona in hunt for Madeleine McCann 'to probe reports she was smuggled to Spain'


Suggestions they could be looking into reports the three-year-old was abducted and smuggled over the border to Spain
By EMILY ALLEN
Last updated at 2:40 PM on 5th December 2011


Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have flown to Spain as part of a review into the case.
Two officers from Scotland Yard travelled to Barcelona two weeks ago to liaise with officers as part of a review of the whole investigation.
They would not confirm their specific reasons for travelling to the city, however it is thought they might be looking into reports the three-year-old was abducted and smuggled over the border to Spain.

This morning Clarence Mitchell, the McCann's spokesman told MailOnline: 'Kate and Gerry welcome the on-going work by the Metropolitan Police and they are pleased that the investigative review is making progress.'
The trip is part of the Met Police's 'investigative review' into all the work done since the investigation into the missing three-year-old began.
It was ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May in May last year.
As part of the review detectives have also travelled to Portugal three times to speak with officers who worked on the original investigation.
They also spent the first five months reading all the information from the case file which had to be translated from Portuguese to English.


There are no suggestions of any major breakthroughs in the case.
The Evening Standard said officers could be investigating one theory that the toddler was abducted by a paedophile gang and smuggled over the border to Spain either in a vehicle or by boat.

Detectives released this computer generated image of a woman, said to resemble Victoria Beckham in2009
There were sightings of a girl matching Madeleine's appearance in Spain shortly after she vanished and Portuguese authorities were criticised for not informing border officials for 12 hours after they first knew she was missing.
In September 2009 the McCann's received 1,000 reports following an appeal over a Victoria Beckham lookalike seen in Barcelona who they thought may be connected to the disappearance of their daughter.
Investigators wanted to trace the woman, said to have been acting suspiciously, who asked a witness at a Barcelona marina if he was there to deliver her 'new daughter' on May 7 2007.
The well-dressed woman was described as possibly having an Australian accent and appeared agitated.

Madeline, from Rothley, Leicestershire, vanished from Portuguese holiday resort Praia da Luz in the Algarve four years ago. She was asleep in the family's holiday apartment with her brother Sean and sister Amelie when she vanished on May 3 2007 shortly before her fourth birthday.
Her parents Gerry and Kate McCann, both doctors, were eating at a nearby tapas restaurant with friends at the time.

A Met Police spokesman said two officers had travelled to Portugal three times for the investigative review and two officers travelled to the Spanish city between November 23 and 25.
He would not reveal any further details but added: 'The investigative review is on-going.'
The official Portuguese and Leicestershire police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance ended in July 2008. However private detectives working for the McCann's have been working to trace her ever since.

The Sun:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3979304/Maddie-cops-flew-to-Spain-in-review.html

Maddie cops flew to Spain in review

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SCOTLAND Yard detectives flew to Spain as part of their re-examination of Madeleine McCann's disappearance in Portugal, the force revealed today.
Police also travelled to Portugal three times in connection with the review, named Operation Grange.

But detectives refused to discuss what led officers to travel to Barcelona to meet Spanish police between November 23 and 25.

Scotland Yard was called in to carry out a review of the McCann files earlier this year after a request by PM David Cameron.

The McCanns had asked him to help revive the search for their daughter, who disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday during a family holiday on the Algarve.

A total of 30 people are now working on Operation Grange. A Scotland Yard spokesman said of the recent trips: "The review continues. There has been very good co-operation with Portuguese authorities and liaison will continue.


"We are not prepared to discuss specific details of these visits nor speculate about any future deployments to Portugal or elsewhere."

Portuguese detectives, helped by officers from Leicestershire Police, carried out a massive probe into Madeleine's disappearance.

But the official inquiry was formally shelved in July 2008 and since then no police force had been actively looking for her.

Find out more about the search for Maddie at http://www.findmadeleine.com/index.html

I don't know whether to cry or spit. This was almost certainly a planned Abduction, for whatever reason. And NO ONE did anything. Not Portugal or Britain. They all abandoned that poor child, and left the Abductor to do it again. This is a disgrace.

I might well not renew my Passport when it next runs out, certainly not at 80 Quid a throw.

Oh, guess who's jealous streak is showing?





Oh, give it a rest, do - what on earth would a fake like her know about anything?

PS - I am sure the nice people at BA will refund her ticket. Well, she surely doesn't think she is going to be welcomed by either the PJ or the Yard?

I will be surprised if they don't have homicide detectives on the investigating team. Someone, who knows how sicko' think is a must have on, any Law Enforcement's cold case.
They, will also have a criminal profiler who is trained in criminal forensic psychology; on-side too. So I am at a loss as to why the 8trs think anything damning against the McCanns is taking place?

They are blinded to reason by their hate, Tony, IMO. Most senior police officers have worked in homicide; it goes with the job.

If all this can happen, from Leveson onwards, and they still cannot see that some scumbag abducted Madeleine McCann; that she needs to be found, and Scotland Yard are working to that end, then there simply is no hope for them.

Damned souls, each and every one of them - they would rather wish a child dead and hate her parents, than face the real world, in which she could well be alive.

Damned souls, each and every one of them - they would rather wish a child dead and hate her parents, than face the real world, in which she could well be alive.
If that's the case, they are criminals of the worse kind.

It may be just coincidence, of course, but Morais went AWOL about the same time as the Yard were in Portugal.

Wonder if she is scared to tell the shrooms just what they thought of Gonc, his inability to understand DNA or forensics, and his 'fridge thesis'. Not to mention his sick vendetta against the McCanns.

bb1 wrote:Oh look, the ghouls are out already..

Re: Scotland Yard Officers in Spain - Standard
Justiceforallkids Today at 1:58 pm

Homocide means they are searching fora dead body does it not?????????

It can scarcely contain itself at the thought of a child being dead.

stupid "woman"

bb1 wrote:It may be just coincidence, of course, but Morais went AWOL about the same time as the Yard were in Portugal.

Wonder if she is scared to tell the shrooms just what they thought of Gonc, his inability to understand DNA or forensics, and his 'fridge thesis'. Not to mention his sick vendetta against the McCanns.

They do know law enforcement will have been all over their sites, don't they?
I know the police have been all over mine. And, I know the links they leave by.

crazytony wrote:

bb1 wrote:It may be just coincidence, of course, but Morais went AWOL about the same time as the Yard were in Portugal.

Wonder if she is scared to tell the shrooms just what they thought of Gonc, his inability to understand DNA or forensics, and his 'fridge thesis'. Not to mention his sick vendetta against the McCanns.

They do know law enforcement will have been all over their sites, don't they?
I know the police have been all over mine. And, I know the links they leave by.

I presume they do Tony, but they think having more than one computer each, they can't be traced.
Bennett has more than one, so I hope the Court take them to see what filth he has on them, and then bans him from using the internet.