Thread: Portugal Cops Reopen Madeleine McCann Case

People are only obsessed with this girl because (a) she's white and (b) she's in the news.

http://www.icmec.org/en_X1/icmec_pub...ICMEC_mech.pdf

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

People are only obsessed with this girl because (a) she's white and (b) she's in the news.

http://www.icmec.org/en_X1/icmec_pub...ICMEC_mech.pdf

I disagree. People are more interested in why Madeleine's parents and their friends behaved so bizarrely about the whole affair.

Almost to a man (or woman) they changed their accounts of what happened that night.

Were they all drunk or something?

My nephew has Aspergers, but he wasn't diagnosed with it until he was well into his 20's. He always was a bit odd, but in the end it was quite a relief to our family to finally have a name for his oddness. When i found out and googled Aspergers - there he was!!

Originally Posted by patsycat

If that is true, then why keep going on and on about finding her?

You can draw a similar line with the Jon Benet Ramsey case. If the parents give up then it casts a bigger shaddow over them as chief suspects.

its pretty weird that the mother seems more interested in suing people than answering questions

When you start suing then people start to back off.

imagine if they are involved didn't they get Tony Blair onto it at one time.?

imagine if they are involved didn't they get Tony Blair onto it at one time.?








That's a close enough resemblance for me. Hang him!!

I wouldnt want to go through what the Mc Canns parents have gone through,not in a million years,regardless of whatever really happened.

Being a parent thats a frightening prospect.

hope they weren't involved.

Police in Portugal yesterday began searching for a gang of five paedophiles they believe may have snatched Madeleine McCann.

Officers finally reopened their probe into her disappearance and identified “essential witnesses” not quizzed in the first investigation which closed in 2008.

The new suspects were spotted near the Praia da Luz apartment from where Madeleine was snatched.

Officers from Porto’s Policia Judiciaria believe foreign perverts kidnapped the three-year-old in May 2007. They were yesterday at the Algarve resort and will work with Scotland Yard to find Madeleine.

The Portuguese Attorney General gave the go-ahead for the fresh probe after compelling new evidence was uncovered.

A number of convicted British paedophiles in Portugal at the time are believed to feature on a new list of 41 potential suspects drawn up by the Met.

Networks with UK connections have been operating in Portugal for years because of lax sex offence laws. It is one of only two countries in Europe without a sex offenders’ register.

The new Portuguese police investigation, revealed exclusively in the Mirror yesterday, will run alongside Scotland Yard’s own hunt.



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Not many readers are aware that Portugal has no paedophile laws, so has become a world haven for paedophiles.

Madeleine McCann Suspect E-Fit 'Produced By Former Spies In 2008 And Suppressed By Parents'
Huffington Post UK | Posted: 27/10/2013 13:59 GMT | Updated: 27/10/2013 14:38 GMT

Evidence recently presented as a "breakthrough" in the hunt for Madeleine McCann was reportedly produced for her parents by a group of former spies in 2008.

Kate and Gerry McCann hand-picked a team of former MI5 agents after becoming fed up with the pace and direction of the original Portuguese investigation.

The intelligence report was kept secret for five years as it was deemed "hyper-critical" of the McCanns and their friends, reports the Sunday Times.

The contents were only made public after Scotland Yard investigators requested a copy when conducting a fresh review of the case

Detectives also said the accepted version of events surrounding the disappearance the little girl in 2007 had "significantly changed".

One of the authors of the 2008 report said he was "utterly stunned" the evidence had been presented in such a way.

Henri Exton, MI5’s former undercover operations chief, who led the group, confirmed they had been silenced by the McCanns.

He said: "A letter came from their lawyers binding us to the confidentiality of the report."

The Crimewatch appeal prompted thousands of calls from the public.

The news comes in the same week as Portugal's attorney general approved a police request to re-open the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine.

The case was shelved in 2008 leaving detectives from the UK's Metropolitan Police Service to carry on the search.

Carrie-Marie Bratley of the Portugal news told Sky News: "There are people who are extremely supportive of the McCanns, there are people who are extremely sympathetic ... and they are very much interested in this case.

She added that officers in any new investigation would have had no involvement in the initial police operation and were chosen for "their emotional and physical distance from this case in the hope that maybe they could go over it with a fine-tooth comb and come up with something, which it seems they may have done."

Madeleine clues hidden for 5 years | The Sunday Times

McCann suspect 'killed in tractor accident'
06:30 Thu Oct 31 2013MSN NZ

The main suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann is believed to have died in a tractor accident four years ago.

Police have already spoken to the widow of the 40-year-old suspect, who was a former employee of the Ocean Club holiday resort in Praia da Luz, where the McCanns were staying at the time their then three-year-old daughter disappeared on May 3, 2007.

The main suspect in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann is believed to have died in a tractor accident four years ago, Portuguese daily newspaper reports.

Police have already spoken to the widow of the 40-year-old suspect, who was a former employee of the Ocean Club holiday resort in Praia da Luz, where the McCanns were staying at the time their then three-year-old daughter disappeared on May 3, 2007.

There was fresh hope to find answers in Madeleine's case when British police earlier this month revealed fresh leads along with an e-fit of the man they sought in connection to the case.

The man was a former employee at the resort where the McCanns were staying and Portuguese police believe he may have taken Maddie in retaliation for his "frictious" departure from the job, the Correio da Manha reports.

"The motives that could have caused the ex-employee to kidnap the youngster are still being investigated," the newspaper reported.

"The man, who died aged 40 in a tractor accident in 2009, was not on the list of employees handed over to police during the initial investigation by the Ocean Club because at the time of Madeleine's disappearance he was not working there."

This new information prompted Portugal's Attorney General to request that local police reopen the case last week, more than five years after it had been closed.

According to Britain's Express newspaper, police identified the now-deceased man after a trace of his mobile phone records revealed he had been around the McCanns' holiday apartment at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

It is also reported that police are planning to follow up with more Ocean Club employees but it is understood investigators believe their main suspect may have killed Madeleine.

They will now begin to search for her body around the area where the man lived, the Daily Mail reports.

The McCanns' lawyer Rogerio Alves said last week the British couple continues to hold out hope that their daughter will be found alive.
McCann suspect 'killed in tractor accident'

Overlooked in this is the fact that a group of parents was eating and drinking in another part of the resort while their several children in a row of rooms were left unattended. They claim to have taken turns to check the children. That's not enough, especially if the McCann's claim that the window shutter on the street side was unlocked.

Case solved,closure time.

Where was Savile at the time? I'm surprised they haven't tried to pin it on him yet....

The plot sickens.


Main Madeleine McCann suspect who died four years ago was an African immigrant who should have been deported but received Presidential pardon

The suspect was from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa, a Portuguese paper reported
The 40-year-old was an employee at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz
He died in a tractor accident back in 2009 according to Correio da Manha
He was identified as the main suspect following mobile phone tests
The report says Portuguese police believe he may have killed Madeleine

PUBLISHED: 13:10 GMT, 31 October 2013 | UPDATED: 13:17 GMT, 31 October 2013


New theory: The main suspect in the reopened investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, pictured, was a former employee of the complex the McCann family were staying at and who died in 2009

The ex-Ocean Club worker being investigated over Madeleine McCann's disappearance was an immigrant who received a presidential pardon after being convicted of theft, it was reported in a Portuguese newspaper.

The daily Correio da Manha said the unnamed suspect was from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa.
He died in a tractor accident in 2009, reports said.

A relative, who is already said to have been questioned by Portuguese police, told the paper: ‘They are looking for a suspect that can't defend himself.
‘Peoples' lives can't be exposed this way.’
Correio da Manha said he should have been expelled from Portugal in 1996 - but was allowed to remain in the country after receiving a pardon from then-President Jorge Sampaio.

The 40-year-old was a former employee at the Ocean Club holiday resort where the McCann family was staying and might have snatched Maddie in revenge after being sacked, Correio da Manha reported.

Police identified him as their main suspect after mobile phone records indicated he was around the McCanns’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz when Maddie disappeared on May 3 2007, the paper claimed.

The flat is a 15-minute drive from the town of Lagos where the unnamed suspect was living after he stopped working at the Ocean Club.

A source told Correio da Manha that police believe he may have killed the youngster to ‘shut her up’ when he saw the huge media response to the disappearance - and are now trying to find her body.



Motive: The man was reportedly a former employee of the Ocean Club in Praia Da Luz,.

Portugal’s Attorney-General gave the go-ahead for the investigation into the girl’s disappearance to be reopened last week at the request of the local police, the Policia Judiciaria – more than five years after the original inquiry was shelved.
Correio da Manha claimed: ‘Police suspicions about the former Ocean Club employee arose during the review of the case carried out by a PJ team from Porto.

‘This was the strongest new lead presented to state prosecutors which led to the investigation being reopened.
‘The man, who died aged 40 in a tractor accident in 2009, was not on the list of employees handed over to police during the initial investigation by the Ocean Club because at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance he was not working there.’
It described his departure from the Ocean Club as ‘frictious’ and said: ‘The motives that could have caused the ex-employee to kidnap the youngster are still being investigated.’ ......It suggests that he may ‘have committed the kidnap as a form of retaliation against the Ocean Club. His aim could have been to call into question the security of the holiday club but something went wrong and the youngster disappeared.’

Portuguese police and a spokesman for the McCanns declined to comment on the newspaper report yesterday.
It was written by three journalists including a senior reporter who gave evidence recently at the ongoing libel case brought by Kate and Gerry McCann against Goncalo Amaral, the officer in charge of the original investigation, over a book he wrote that accuses them of faking Madeleine’s abduction to cover up her death.

It emerged over the weekend that police were planning to reinterview several Ocean Club employees.
More than 130 workers were questioned during the initial inquiry, including two men who fixed a blind in the McCanns’ apartment two days before Madeleine disappeared.

Portuguese police are thought to have returned to the Praia da Luz area about a month ago to carry out mobile phone tracking work.

Last week it emerged that Kate and Gerry McCann are to apply under Portuguese law to become private ‘prosecutors’ and may now be able to influence the course of the investigation and any prosecution.

Their status as ‘assistentes’ will allow their legal team to work alongside state prosecutors, keeping the McCanns informed of all new developments in the case.

They could also bring a parallel private prosecution against any suspects charged over Maddie’s disappearance.
A secrecy order put on the case by Portugal’s Attorney General could also be lifted just for them, giving access to all case files.


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Madeleine McCann search to enter 'substantial phase' of activity


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Police investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance say "a substantial phase of operational activity" will begin within weeks.

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said the activity would be led by Portuguese police with the involvement of British officers.

Madeleine was three years old when she went missing from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal in May 2007.

Scotland Yard launched a fresh investigation last July.


Credible possibilities

Mr Rowley did not give details about what the next phase would involve, but said officers were working through every credible line of inquiry as part of the "slog of a major investigation".

He said: "It's something that you would expect in any major inquiry.

"A thorough serious crime investigation works systematically through all the credible possibilities, and often in an investigation you will have more than one credible possibility.

"Therefore just because we're doing a substantial phase of work in the forthcoming weeks doesn't mean that it's going to immediately lead to answers that will explain everything."


Intruder

The Metropolitan Police's relationship with officers in Portugal was working well, he added.

Scotland Yard's investigation - codenamed Operation Grange - came two years into a review of the case.

In March, British police said they were seeking an intruder who sexually abused five girls in Portugal between 2004 and 2006.

Detectives say the attacks happened in holiday villas occupied by UK families in the Algarve.

Thursday 3 May 2007: Timeline

• 20:30 Kate and Gerry McCann leave their apartment to have dinner at a Tapas bar
• 21:05 Gerry McCann checks on Madeleine and her siblings
• 22:00 A man is seen carrying a child wearing pyjamas heading towards the ocean
• 22:00 Kate McCann raises the alarm that Madeleine has gone missing

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Madeleine McCann: Police in Portugal search scrubland



Police are expected to use "ground-penetrating radar" to search the area


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Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have sealed off a large area of scrubland in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz.

The British girl was three when she went missing in the resort in 2007.

On 22 May Scotland Yard said a "substantial phase of operational activity" would start in Portugal in the coming weeks.

Sources in Portugal told the BBC that had now started, and police with dogs are at the scene.

Police are expected to use "ground penetrating radar" to search the area, looking for disturbed earth.

The scrubland is being searched after a request from the Metropolitan Police. Similar requests have been made for two other locations in Portugal.

The BBC's Lauren Turner said the area was surrounded by flats and villas, many of them holiday properties


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27659905

I hope this is at closure soon, as its a complete waste of the publics money, i'm sure the cash could be used for more recent cases of child abduction etc.

Very sorry what happened but the Mc Canns should be paying for this

heres how many per year, does not include rape or murder.

2. Police force data
Data were collected from UK police forces
on 592 cases – involving 675 victims – of
child abduction, kidnapping (of children) and
abduction (of children, an offence limited
to Scotland) recorded during the financial
year 2011/12. Police data are limited to what
is reported to the police and what can
be recorded under the different offence
categories. Incidents resulting in more serious
offences (such as murder and rape) are
unlikely to be recorded as child abductions,
and therefore would have been excluded
from this analysis.

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been alerted to the revelation that the MP Sir Clement Freud, who befriended the McCann family, was a paedophile who sexually abused young girls for decades.

Freud's widow, Jill Freud, 89, said in a statement she was “deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women” after an ITV documentary found the late broadcaster and politician was accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s.

Sylvia Woosley, who first met Freud when she was 10 and later went to live with him when her mother's marriage broke down, claims in the ITV Exposure documentary that he molested her over several years.

A second woman, who wants to remain anonymous, alleged that the Liberal politician also abused her as a child and raped her when she was 18.


Freud, who died in 2009, had a holiday home in the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal where Madeleine disappeared in 2007.

He met Gerry and Kate McCann in the weeks after the incident, staying in touch by phone and email and, according to The Telegraph, hosting them at his home on at least two occasions.

It is expected police will now assess the information about his past to determine whether it is relevant to the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

Sir Clement Freud: Madeleine McCann police to investigate link to paedophile MP | Crime | News | The Independent