The Hunt for Madeleine McCann’s Grave/thedailybeast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/12/the-hunt-for-madeleine-mccann-s-grave.html

The Hunt for Madeleine McCann’s Grave
The little English girl who disappeared in Portugal seven years ago would be turning 11 today. While her parents mark the occasion at home, cops are starting a new search for body.

As Madeleine McCann’s parents marked another sad birthday for their missing daughter on Monday, Portuguese police prepared to break ground in a vacant field across the street from the resort where the young girl disappeared seven years ago.

The move to excavate the abandoned field where Irish investors had once planned to build a holiday resort (before the economic crisis and the stigma of McCann’s disappearance lured them elsewhere), brings the investigation full circle back to Portugal.

McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, from her parent’s vacation apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve while they dined with friends at a tapas bar nearby. Kate and Gerry McCann and their dinner companions took turns checking on sleeping Madeleine and her young twin siblings at half hour intervals. Several people reported seeing a man carrying a child in a blanket that night, but because Portuguese police immediately suspected McCann’s parents, none of the leads were pursued adequately.

Instead, the Portuguese police focused on the young girl’s parents who were their prime suspects until they quit pursuing the case in July 2008. The chief investigator in the case Giancolo Amaral has been sued for libel by the McCanns for his book The Truth Of The Lie which outlined his suspicions. He was released from the case in 2007 for “showing bias against the McCanns” according to the court dossier.

Scotland Yard then reopened the case in 2011 under the investigative name Operation Grange. Portuguese police reluctantly followed suit in 2013 and also reopened the case in Portugal.

They ate birthday cake and placed birthday gifts befitting an 11-year-old girl in Madeleine’s pink bedroom, which has not been changed since she disappeared.

Though the British and Portuguese investigations remain separate, their efforts have produced a list of 38 potential suspects and nearly 200 leads missed in the early investigations, which are being used as a guide by both teams. Most recently, British police identified a man who may have been involved in as many as 18 attempted kidnappings and “near misses” in the same area around the time McCann disappeared. They have also interrogated a number of known sex offenders, including 68-year-old Anthony Woodhouse, who was on the run in Portugal at the time, who was questioned last week. Woodhouse turned himself in and is serving a 17-and-a-half-year jail term in England for raping a 14-year-old girl who became pregnant from the attack. Scotland Yard has not commented on the questioning.

The search for McCann’s grave in the abandoned field could begin this week. Portuguese police will lead the dig, which is being funded under Operation Grange. They will start by using ground penetrating radar equipment and helicopters to map out the area, which is the size of three football fields. They are searching for abnormalities in the soil, replanted vegetation and other signs of a rogue grave. It has angered many local business owners who say piles of fresh dirt in the search for a missing child will not be good for tourism. Local pub owner Nancy Thompson told the BBC that she feared it would ruin the summer season. “Why now? Why didn’t they do it at the time?” she said. “It will be like a circus town.”

Portuguese police have also warned that if the dig becomes a media extravaganza they will cease operations. They also threatened British police that if they give press conferences or leak information during the digs, the operation will be stopped. According to Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, the media must not behave as they did when McCann first disappeared. In an open letter to British newspapers, he warned reporters to stay away. “If we provide any briefings or information on the work they are undertaking on our behalf, or if reporters cause any disruption to their work in Portugal, activity will cease.”

British police have also expressed concern that Portuguese police may have information from other criminal investigations that could provide clues in the McCann case, but because the Portuguese cops, known as the policia judiciaria, have been so strongly criticized for their initial handling of the case, the British police have to tread lightly. According to Andy Redwood, who is leading the Operation Grange operation, they won’t give up.

"Sitting in police exhibits stores somewhere on the Algarve could be forensic material which we and our senior colleagues in the policia judiciaria are not aware of,” Redwood told reporters last month. “We're keen to find out about that. We're not going to stop asking questions until we are satisfied we have everything that is available."

Meanwhile in Rothley, Leicestershire, McCann’s parents spent a somber day following a birthday ritual they know all too well. They ate birthday cake and placed birthday gifts befitting an 11-year-old girl in Madeleine’s pink bedroom, which has not been changed since she disappeared. The gifts marking the last seven birthdays are there waiting for her to come home to open. “It’s a long time,” Kate McCann told the BBC in a heartbreaking interview ahead of the birthday. “The room’s absolutely the same but she might want to change it a bit now she’s a bit older. You think, 11 – she’s due to start big school in ­September.”

“The room’s absolutely the same but she might want to change it a bit now she’s a bit older. You think, 11 – she’s due to start big school in ­September.”

That's probably the most delusional thing I have ever read.   

If Healy actually said that then she is truly nuts.

I guess the next thing we will hear is that they have registered Madeleine for "big school". Despite the evidence to the contrary, they want us to believe they think she will want to redecorate her room when she comes back. Has she forgotten she told her mother, "She's gone mum".

It's Norma McDesmond.

Playing to the gallery.

Prepping diminished responsibility.

Thanks Annabel.
It's an obscenity that they were allowed to cut down trees in order to print this faeces.

.......The Truth Of The Lie which outlined his suspicions. He was released from the case in 2007 for “showing bias against the McCanns” according to the court dossier.


WTF....

and.......



Scotland Yard then reopened the case in 2011 under the investigative name Operation Grange. Portuguese police reluctantly followed suit in 2013 and also reopened the case in Portugal.



WTF again....

Its all a pile of shite, kitti!!

......took turns checking on sleeping Madeleine and her young twin siblings at half hour intervals. Several people reported seeing a man carrying a child in a blanket that night, but because Portuguese police immediately suspected McCann’s parents, none of the leads were pursued adequately.




WHAT!!!!!



What bout fookin egg man

And WHO the fook is.....Giancolo Amaral..

They could at least call her Madeleine instead off McCann.

kitti wrote:And WHO the fook is.....Giancolo Amaral..

I had to blink at that several times - and even then I could hardly believe it.

For Pete's sake, if she can't even get the name right ......

Modern journalism standards - appalling!

almostgothic wrote:

kitti wrote:And WHO the fook is.....Giancolo Amaral..

I had to blink at that several times - and even then I could hardly believe it.

For Pete's sake, if she can't even get the name right ......

Modern journalism standards - appalling!

Oh, that's mild compared to Twitter.  The incredibly stupid CEO of Ann Summers, one Jacqueline Gold, has spent the last week slagging off the PJ in their search for one Madeline McCain.
Also spotted on OFM today was someone hoping that Maddie would soon be returned to her "real parents", Katie and Garry. I kid you not.

Iris wrote:

almostgothic wrote:

kitti wrote:And WHO the fook is.....Giancolo Amaral..

I had to blink at that several times - and even then I could hardly believe it.

For Pete's sake, if she can't even get the name right ......

Modern journalism standards - appalling!

Oh, that's mild compared to Twitter.  The incredibly stupid CEO of Ann Summers, one Jacqueline Gold, has spent the last week slagging off the PJ in their search for one Madeline McCain.
Also spotted on OFM today was someone hoping that Maddie would soon be returned to her "real parents", Katie and Garry.  I kid you not.

I could tell you a few things about Jacqeline Gold if you like.She is a posh tart (definitely a bit of old mutton) who drives around my area in a car with a reg no. 'Gold 1' and has many a 'sacked' housekeeper to slag her off if you like including one who tried to poison her, Google it if you want to read about it.One of my friends wives applied for that job but luckily decided against it.
She runs the Ann Summers sex boutique and has lots of sex toys for those swinging partys as well.

Just proves this is as much a 'class' thing as anything else imo.