SY in Portugal

Front page of the Mirror: "Maddie Cops Fly In To Arrest 3 Suspects" "Brit police arrive in Portugal for secret kidnap summit"

"Secret" if you please.

its in the express too. oh and the Wail, some really sarcastic comments there.

Good that it's secret. otherwise the bad guys could get away.

3...2...1

flee!

Andy will be around to nick 'em, AFTER lunch!

Andy's 'elites' enter police station for meeting, as the three burglar suspects stroll by 'casing' the joint.
Whistling Elvis Costello's 'watching the detectives'

jeanmonroe wrote:Andy will be around to nick 'em, AFTER lunch!

Andy's 'elites' enter police station for meeting, as the three burglar suspects stroll by 'casing' the joint.

OMG that's priceless!! I didn't notice the three burglars keeping an eye on the cops!!

omg I really did lol            

They look like undertakers....

agree kitti they do - i wonder with all this press what really is going on - because something is - didnt portugal say the only way thy would reopen the case is if something big was found ? they are not gonna waste money opening the case for nothing

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-01-29/no-imminent-plans-to-make-any-arrests-in-madeleine-mccann-case/


10:36am, Wed 29 Jan 2014

No imminent plans to make any arrests in Madeleine McCann case
Emma Murphy: Europe Correspondent- last updated Wed 29 Jan 2014UK
Madeleine McCann
Portugal


Madeleine went missing in May 2007. Photo: Family Handout
As much as people may wish it to lead somewhere, the meeting between British and Portuguese detectives is a routine part of the investigation to establish what happened to Madeleine McCann.

In recent months, with both countries working on their own inquiries they have started to liaise much more over the detail of their work.

This is partly because new teams - without any of the historic antagonism - are now in place, but also due to Portuguese law.

The British can't just get on a flight and start interviewing or arresting suspects. Any police work has to be done by the Portuguese and for that to happen an International Letter of Request must be sent from the UK.
Read: Police request information in Madeleine case
Police from the UK are visiting Portugal to discuss the Madeleine case. Credit: Family Handout
Many such letters have been sent and will be sent as part of Operation Grange, the Metropolitan Police's investigation.The last arrived a few days ago.

This meeting is a chance for officers from both countries to go through the detail.

Speaking to sources in Portugal and also the UK, it seems clear there is no plan to start making arrests imminently, if at all. This will be a long and slow process.

After so many years no one in the McCann family is getting overly optimistic. There have been too many moments which apparently offered far more than this routine meeting.
No one in the McCann family is getting overly optimistic at the latest developments. Credit: John Stillwell/PA Archive
Their policy remains they will continue their quest to find their daughter and welcome the work of those joining in that search."

How very Hurtful and Unhelpful of ITV.

so the information that police are visiting Portugal came from a family handout =no surprises there then.

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The jolly boys outing lol

He's behind you!!!!!!!!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gWRti8QUL-8RD3SMx2r-RMgQKXjA?docId=0e96d268-b511-401b-a735-8b3a3273ee49&hl=en






McCann police visit Portugal, but make no arrests

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

Lisbon — British detectives investigating the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann have made another visit to the Algarve but no arrests were made, Portuguese police said Wednesday.

Scotland Yard detectives were in the Algarve capital Faro on Tuesday for talks with the Portuguese authorities.

British newspapers reported that the British detectives were set to arrest three suspects.

But Pedro do Carmo, the deputy head of Portugal's criminal police department, told AFP: "There were no arrests."

Madeleine vanished from a holiday apartment in the beach resort of Praia da Luz, days before her fourth birthday in 2007. Her parents were dining with friends at a restaurant close by.

"A working meeting took place on Tuesday in Faro, in the regular fashion, as has happened before in the framework of the investigation," Carmo said.

He would not comment on the content of the meeting but said the detectives had now left Portugal.

The Daily Mirror newspaper in Britain said four Scotland Yard policemen had gone to Faro and were "set to swoop on three suspects" who were believed to be part of a burglary gang.

"The discussions are believed to have centred on getting local officials to sanction the arrests and subsequent questioning," the report said.

Portuguese authorities closed their investigation into McCann's disappearance in 2008, but Scotland Yard spent two years reviewing the evidence at the British government's request and opened their own probe in July last year.

British detectives have visited Portugal several times since they began reviewing the evidence.

The review interviewed more than 440 people and identified 41 "persons of interest", 15 of which were British nationals.

Gerry and Kate McCann have never dropped their campaign to find Madeleine. They believe she was kidnapped and is still alive.

A television appeal in October -- screened in Britain, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands -- triggered more than 1,000 fresh calls and emails.

Portuguese authorities announced on October 24 they were re-opening the probe "due to new elements".

Copyright © 2014 AFP. All rights reserved. More »

if all this about the burglars in the news is pink spin - we all know as a fact now that they have been to portugal but we have had weeks of the robbers - did the pink spin get a hint this would happen weeks ago ? they always have a answer before fact happens - also re these burglars - witnesses - have they contacted sy and said we want to tell all maybe since the reopening of the case they have decided to tell if not before - portugal had to have dam good reason to reopen the case what better than help from one of its own - confessing upto a lesser crime

Looks as if the three burglar suspects about to be arrested is not exactly accurate. Maybe the significant breakthrough was somebody ringing crimewatch with information that led to the Portuguese re-opening the case. I'm not really understanding this three burglar stuff which we keep hearing about. It's most likely they could be important witnesses rather than suspects. If they exist at all.

No arrests in Portugual - big surprise. This is beyond absurd. The U.K. press continue to make a mockery of Madeleine's 'disappearance'. Now that the British detectives are back in the U.K., is it too much to hope that they will be making these "arrests" in Rothley.

http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2014/01/british-police-want-to-question-three.html

Could this have anything to do with SY tracing "all calls"?
http://t.co/1C8IeBNsIv

So the three burglars are actually Ocean Club workers who in all probability were actually SEARCHING For Madeleine and maybe were even keeping in contact with their mobile phones.
And NSY can only investigate these three burglars if the PJ haven't already done so.
Nice to see our ten million quid has been well spent.

Iris wrote:So the three burglars are actually Ocean Club workers who in all probability were actually SEARCHING For Madeleine and maybe were even keeping in contact with their mobile phones.
And NSY can only investigate these three burglars if the PJ haven't already done so.
Nice to see our ten million quid has been well spent.

Exactly Iris. There would have been loads of people on their mobiles at that time so what is different about these three?

SY are back home now........without the burglars .....

Actually......they got home yesterday ......

SY are rapidly becoming the joke of the world, it´s really getting very embarrassing.