Madeleine McCann search dogs used in hunt for missing teen - Mirror

Not Born Yesterday wrote:They are the ones used in the searches in June this year.

interested wrote:The Mirror has an article entitled: "Alice Gross missing:  Madeleine McCann search dogs used in hunt for missing teen".  (Although they say the dogs are named "Tito" and "Muzzy" not Eddie and Keela.)

By the way, has Ambassador McCann been involved in the search for Alice?.........I didn't think so.

AnnaEsse wrote:

interested wrote:The Mirror has an article entitled: "Alice Gross missing:  Madeleine McCann search dogs used in hunt for missing teen".  (Although they say the dogs are named "Tito" and "Muzzy" not Eddie and Keela.)

By the way, has Ambassador McCann been involved in the search for Alice?.........I didn't think so.

Ambassador McCann has been silent on this case. You'd think she'd be in there, offering her ambassadorial support, but not a whisper from her. I think the answer to this case lies closer to home and perhaps Kate McCann thinks so too.

Iris wrote:And maybe that Latvian man is completely innocent, but realised that he was spotted on CCTV and feared that he would be "fitted up" for it.  I'd have done a runner back to Latvia as well.  Yes, he killed his wife but it was a completely different set of circumstances, he went to prison and served his time.  There is zero evidence that he is involved in the disappearance of Alice Gross.  But the papers pretty much have him tried, convicted and hung already, in much the same was as they did Chris Jeffries.

Iris wrote:And maybe that Latvian man is completely innocent, but realised that he was spotted on CCTV and feared that he would be "fitted up" for it.  I'd have done a runner back to Latvia as well.  Yes, he killed his wife but it was a completely different set of circumstances, he went to prison and served his time.  There is zero evidence that he is involved in the disappearance of Alice Gross.  But the papers pretty much have him tried, convicted and hung already, in much the same was as they did Chris Jeffries.

wjk wrote:

Iris wrote:And maybe that Latvian man is completely innocent, but realised that he was spotted on CCTV and feared that he would be "fitted up" for it.  I'd have done a runner back to Latvia as well.  Yes, he killed his wife but it was a completely different set of circumstances, he went to prison and served his time.  There is zero evidence that he is involved in the disappearance of Alice Gross.  But the papers pretty much have him tried, convicted and hung already, in much the same was as they did Chris Jeffries.

Exactly, Iris. As Anna says above, I think the police should be looking closer to home (maybe they are).

kitti wrote:I'm afraid like  the Rachel Nickell murder, when the police get a bee in their bonnet and have someone in their sight, there's no turning them .

kitti wrote:I'm afraid like  the Rachel Nickell murder, when the police get a bee in their bonnet and have someone in their sight, there's no turning them .

jassi wrote:

kitti wrote:I'm afraid like  the Rachel Nickell murder, when the police get a bee in their bonnet and have someone in their sight, there's no turning them .

In other circumstances, The Latvian, himself, would be classed as a missing person as he hasn't been seen nor  has he accessed his phone or bank account for several weeks.

The Guardian wrote:Zalklans was last seen on 3 September, and reported missing on 5 September. By 11 September the Met had contacted their Latvian counterparts, and checks through Interpol revealed the suspect’s murder conviction. But it was not until 17 September that detectives scouring CCTV of the area near where Alice had been walking on the day she disappeared, spotted a cyclist who resembled Zalkalns.

Alice went missing after going for a walk by a canal in west London on 28 August. CCTV shows Zalkalns riding a bicycle past the same spot 15 minutes later. Police believe he would have encountered the teenager.

Zalkalns, 41, served an eight-year prison sentence in his native Latvia, where he was jailed in 1998. In 2009, he was arrested over an alleged indecent assault on a teenage girl in Ealing, west London, but the case was dropped because the alleged victim declined to make a statement.

Angelina wrote:They're not the McCann dogs then are they if they're not the same ones.

Why do these newspapers keep publishing misleading headlines

Iris wrote:Here we go.  I'll put money on it.  "Was this Latvian guy in Portugal in 2007".  

interested wrote:Dominic Gover (International Business Times) has picked up on the "connection" to Madeleine.  "Missing Alice Gross: Madeleine McCann Search Dogs Join Investigation".  The Latvian man is noted as "prime suspect".

interested wrote:

Iris wrote:Here we go.  I'll put money on it.  "Was this Latvian guy in Portugal in 2007".  

 Oh, Dear God "Iris" you're right!!  Some paper is probably working on tomorrow's headline as we speak.  British investigative 'journalism' at work again totally ignoring the evidence in the files.

Iris wrote:And maybe that Latvian man is completely innocent, but realised that he was spotted on CCTV and feared that he would be "fitted up" for it.  I'd have done a runner back to Latvia as well.  Yes, he killed his wife but it was a completely different set of circumstances, he went to prison and served his time.  There is zero evidence that he is involved in the disappearance of Alice Gross.  But the papers pretty much have him tried, convicted and hung already, in much the same was as they did Chris Jeffries.

jassi wrote:All sounds a bit desperate, though. Based, it would seem, upon the fact that he was seen in the vicinity some time later.