EXCLUSIVE: British police identify 'Maddy suspects' and urge Portuguese to act

Lioned wrote:Oh dear thats not very helpfull mr brunt!

Personally i was suprised they didn't blame jimmy saville but there's still time.Any old dead peado's must be in the frame.

agree its costing too mucj now -- whos gonna get the finger pointed at them -- bet it aint gerry and kate

also give them the heads up so they can flee whatever country they live in -- unless theydont have madeleine alive - isnt this endangering her life

cass wrote:

Lioned wrote:Oh dear thats not very helpfull mr brunt!

Personally i was suprised they didn't blame jimmy saville but there's still time.Any old dead peado's must be in the frame.

agree its costing too mucj now -- whos gonna get the finger pointed at them -- bet it aint gerry and kate

Can't be them..they're not comedians and haven't been in a soap...hmmm depends on how you view a soap I guess!

you would think that this sy plod would let portugal know wouldnt you

Would like to know whether Pt sees these "new suspects" in quite the same light as SY

portugal should make a statement saying they are not l,ooking for anyone regarding this case -- shut em up

Mail Online now reporting, "Scotland Yard hands list naming 'people of interest' to to Portugese police in hunt for missing Madeleine McCann".

Accepting comments.....well "some".

wonder if gerry and kate are packing as we post then and on the 1st plane to portugal and demand that these people of interest be questioned asap -they have their daughter what if her life is now in real danger by these press statements

they may well be packing - but not for Portugal.

I think something MAY be happening. ITV have just reported on this, their female Reporter was outside SY Police Station, quoting more or less what previously has been said .......that SY have several people they want to interview. I don't think they would report on this unless they know this news is different.

Anyone just see John O'Connor on Sky ,saying the McCanns have been heroic keeping Madeleine in the news?
Jeez!!

cass wrote:wonder if gerry and kate are packing as we post then and on the 1st plane to portugal and demand that these people of interest be questioned asap -they have their daughter what if her life is now in real danger by these press statements

Perhaps Rome is preparing itself again..................for a confession this time.

Interesting stuff today. Does not seem to be all pink spin, the initial lack of comment from Clarrie would make it appear they were caught on the hop with the publication of comments. A list of a handful of people looks good doesn't it. Seven or nine tapas friends could be considered a handful.

If this story continues to gather momentum, I would be cautiously optimistic.

I hope there some good, decent person out there who will now take the bull by the horns and run with this and push to have the story develop. The ice has been broken, all it takes is the courage of one person to get to the bottom of this.

http://www.anorak.co.uk/357084/madeleine-mccann/madeleine-mccann-detectives-identify-potential-suspects-but-wont-tell-us-how-many-or-why.html/


"Madeleine McCann detectives identify ‘potential suspects’ but won’t tell us how many or why
by Anorak | 17th, May 2013

MADELEINE McCann vanished six years ago. Another summer of sighting looms, all eagerly reported by newspapers looking for easy news in the shark-spotting season. The Evening Standard reports:

British police identify new leads in hunt for Madeleine McCann and urge Portuguese to act

Go on:

Scotland Yard has identified a number of potential suspects who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, the force’s top detective revealed today.

Can he be a little less vague?

Investigators carrying out a review of the case have drawn up a list of people who they say are “of interest” to the inquiry.

Can they name names? Hope so. Without names we have nothing to see. It;s just no-news news:

Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, the head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said there were a “good number” of individuals who should be questioned.

Why? Who? And who is DCS Campbell? Well, he works on the Met’s Madeleine McCann Review Team.

Today he urged the Portuguese authorities to investigate the new leads identified by the British review.

But why tell the media? Surely Portugal, the is country’s oldest ally needs no prompting in the media?

DCS Campbell, speaking on the eve of his retirement from the Met, said: “There are a lot of people of interest. There are people who could be properly explored further, if only to be eliminated.”

Eliminate! Eliminate!

He refused to give numbers but said there was “more than a handful” of names of “people of interest”.

Why refuse facts?

…Today DCS Campbell said the 30-strong review squad had done a “fantastic” job in identifying “further investigative and forensic opportunities.”

Good. Progress.

He said it was “perfectly probable” that information which could identify the suspect responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance was already within the Portuguese files.

Er…

He added: “We have to ask ourselves why are cases unsolved and, on many occasions, we find we passed the suspects by already and the suspect sits within our system.”

Sure. But what specifically has been found?

Detectives from the Yard’s team have travelled to Portugal around 10 times to liaise with the authorities there and gather evidence in an inquiry which has cost more than £2 million.

So far, Portugal’s attorney general has ruled out a new inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance but the comments from the senior Yard detective will raise hopes of a fresh investigation.

DCS Campbell said: “The Portuguese hopefully will pursue some of these investigative opportunities with our assistance. There is room for further work and collaboration to resolve the case.”

Isn’t good detective work about facts?

He re-iterated a claim that Madeleine could still be alive. He said: “You only have to look at the case in Cleveland, Ohio, and the European cases. Of course, there is a possibility she is alive, you cannot exclude it. But the key is to investigate the case and, alive or dead, we should be able to try and discern what happened.”

Yes. Try to find out what happened. In other words, the police should investigate. Hurrah for the expert copper.

He added: “The purpose of the review is to look at it with fresh eyes…there has been real benefit in doing it.”

Such are the facts…

Spotter: Karen"

As usual Anorak have it right , maybe all this is to prove the review was well worth the £2 million....er £4.5 million.!!

Yet in two years they only went to Portugal 10 times?????

anyone loggen in thats from portugal ? have they got news of this yet ?

On Jill's forum they are saying TEXTUSA blog reporting Portuguese media mentioning 5 listed people.?

Panda wrote:A spokesman for the McCann family, Clarence Mitchell, said: "Kate and Gerry
continue to be encouraged by Operation Grange and are very pleased by the work
the police are doing. Beyond that they won't be commenting on any operational
matters."
I remain a bit sceptical here, the DCS is retiring , he said " a handful", Redwood said initially 195 potential leads. We have James Murray doing an about turn and printing an interview with Murat who is calling for a Reconstruction which after 6 years would be worthless . If SY truly believe they have a good chance of finding a possible abductor, or what happened to Madeleine why have not the Portugese made a statement that they will re-open the case? The Oporto Police have been working with SY so would know if there was any new reason to open the case.
Could it be that the DCS is trying to justify the £4.25 million spent on this Review?

That was 195 leads a year ago. So they spend a whole year whittling them down to just a handful and you're still not happy?
Its a handful of 'new suspects' as well... I'm sure we can rule out the Gaspars as suspects... that brings the numbers down to 7, then the mccanns are old suspects so there we have 5... lol

wjk wrote:On Jill's forum they are saying TEXTUSA blog reporting Portuguese media mentioning 5 listed people.?

Ironically you posted this just as I was posting my last post!
I counted 5 new suspects....

so has Textusa actually listed the people by name or is it just that 5 people are suspects. jimo.

WHITEWASH!!!

has anyone ever known police make statement such as this without knowing for fact that they can pick them up when they want -- come on lets just say theres a pedo ring and they have a alive madeleine where are they in the bleeding middle of nowhere - no tv etc -- just say madeleine was alive held captive what are they going to do -- flee wherever they are -- if this all rings true they must have them in custody or be able to bring them in anytime they want -- or are they looking for 5 swathy men

pennylane wrote:WHITEWASH!!!

I'm wid U Boo Boo

do you know pennylane I was thinking of saying the same. I wonder if there is any reference any where to the dogs in all this review. or whether they are they being ignored.

tanszi wrote:so has Textusa actually listed the people by name or is it just that 5 people are suspects. jimo.

tanzi, I just read on Jills that she said the Portuguese media are saying 5. There was no names.

Angelina wrote:

pennylane wrote:WHITEWASH!!!

I'm wid U Boo Boo

Hi Angelina

What a corrupt bunch of thugs we have overseeing our justice system. They have no shame!