Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

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Post  sharonl on Fri May 13, 2011 4:54 pm

Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/13/madeleine-mccann-police-review-cost-millions?CMP=twt_fd


MPs criticise PM's ordering of lengthy and costly Scotland Yard review of police investigation into child's disappearance

Handout photo of Madeleine McCann. The Metropolitan police review of the investigation into her disapperance ordered by David Cameron has been criticised by MPs, and is likely to take years and cost millions. Photograph: Everton Fc/PA




The Metropolitan police review into the abduction of Madeleine McCann could take months or even years to complete and cost millions of pounds.



Detectives from Scotland Yard's homicide command face huge difficulties in examining all the paperwork that details the inquiry into the three-year-old's disappearance in Portugal in 2007. First they will have to wait for all the documentation to be provided by the Portuguese police, and then all the material must be translated before a team of detectives begins the arduous task of reviewing the whole inquiry. They will also review all the files from police in Leicestershire, the McCann's home force which provided some support to the Portuguese, and those of private investigators who have been working on behalf of the family for the past four years.
Scotland Yard have begun an exercise to work out what size team should be involved in the Madeleine review. It is likely to include detectives from the child homicide unit at the Yard.

The prime minister's decision to order the Met to review the case was criticised by some politicians.
Labour peer Lord Harris of Haringey told the PoliticsHome website that he had worries about the way Cameron and the Home Office had behaved.

"It raises very big questions about political direction of the police," said Harris. "Of course it goes without saying that this is a very heart-breaking case, but what we are looking at is a case where the Met has no direct responsibility.

"There is clearly an issue about the resources being used and are they in effect saying that the Met is the default investigator for every case in the world involving a British citizen?
"It's not just a question of direct costs, it's a question of opportunity costs too. Our detective capacity is limited as it is."


The prime minister's official spokesman said that Cameron and Theresa May had asked the Met to review the evidence in response to a request by the McCann family because of the "exceptional" nature of the case.
"There has been a huge amount of public interest in this case since it began, Madeleine McCann has been missing for a long time, there is the international dimension," the spokesman said.

"The prime minister has been clear that he wants to do everything he can to support the family."
The spokesman denied that Cameron and May had been directing police on an operational matter.
"It was done at the request of the home secretary. It was agreed by Sir Paul Stephenson. That is not a direction," he said.


Scotland Yard has had some high-profile success in solving cases which at first sight seemed intractable. After 16 years a new investigation of the Rachel Nickell murder led in 2008 to her killer Robert Napper being brought to justice following a DNA breakthrough.



It was a review by a senior homicide detective of all the evidence gathered in an investigation into a serial rapist in south London that led to the conviction of Kirk Reid in 2009. After eight years in which no one had been arrested for scores of rapes it took the detective just a few hours with the paperwork to identify Reid as the main suspect. Five days later he had matched his DNA to two of the assaults and Reid was finally brought to justice.


The approach in the Madeleine review will be the same as in any re-examination of cases in the UK, a police source said. "What we do is painstakingly look at all the evidence, the paperwork, the CCTV, any suspects who came to light and were investigated. Sometimes it takes fresh eyes to see what was always there."

Madeleine of Rothley, Leicestershire, vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in May 2007. Her parents were dining in a restaurant about 100 metres away and were checking on Madeleine and her siblings every half an hour. The Portuguese inquiry was halted formally in July 2008.

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Time necessary for Met review

Post  pauline on Fri May 13, 2011 5:42 pm

before commencing on the review - if the Met asked Kate McCann the 48 questions she wouldn't answer for the Portuguese police and she provided the records she wouldn't before - medical and bank records - this might help the Met decide whether this was in fact a kidnapping, or an accidental death covered up by the parents. If they decided it was a cover up than the huge cost of a review could be avoided.

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Review of case by Met Police

Post  Marian on Fri May 13, 2011 6:08 pm

I agree with Pauline at 4.42 today. We can only hope that such obvious points will be covered but I fear that it will just be the same old routine in which the McCanns' word is trusted implicitly and there will be even more running round in circles looking for a myriad of unlikely abductors.

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Re: Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

Post  Kololi on Fri May 13, 2011 7:24 pm

I have mixed feelings on this.

One would hope that the case might be re-examined in its entirety which would mean that the McCanns should be prepared that they are very likely to fall under the examining spotlight. No leaving their stone unturned this time because it didn't suit their belief of what had happened to their daughter - their rocks must be checked under regardless of what may be found by those investigating. I would also hope that they are not so able to direct or cause confusion to any review or any investigation this time round.

Excellent if Madeleine's whereabouts can be determined from a review and somebody brought to justice although personally I am of the mind that due to the time expired and nobody coming forward after so many appeals and a big reward it is more likely there is no live Madeleine to find.

I think it is a little sad that this is weighted in favour of one child and one family and would hope that Mr Cameron offers the same support to every British family who still has a missing child. This missing child story very likely did touch a nation and even the viewing world but maybe only because the parents were in a position to call upon favours or the aid of influential people. Are all parents in this position? I doubt it which could mean that when a child goes missing it becomes a little like the NHS postcode lottery of how much assistance you might receive to find your child. I don't begrudge Madeleine the help she is receiving in the slightest and hope that I am wrong and an unharmed Madeleine is found as a result of the new enquiry. What I do find a little distasteful is that Ben Needham, for one, will still be missing and unlikely to have all this attention spent in finding him. It would be brilliant if this new government interest is extended to every missing child.

Apologies if I sound a tadge mean towards the McCanns and Madeleine as that actually isn't my intention - would just hope that other parents receive the same treatment as they are. Let's hope that I am wrong on both counts and Madeleine is found fit and well and Ben Needham and any other missing child gets all the help they require to find out what happened to them too.

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Re: Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

Post  Martin on Fri May 13, 2011 7:58 pm

"The prime minister has been clear that he wants to do everything he can to support the family."



Huh! Just like the previous Prime Minister. And his government weren't adverse to the odd bucket of whitewash!
I wouldn't have thought that Cameron would allow anything other than a result that confirms his 'support'! His personal interest in the case goes back to before he was Prime Minister when he met with the gruesome twosome and also he had Mitchell as the Conservative party media co-ordinator during the election.

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Re: Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

Post  Cheshire Cat on Fri May 13, 2011 8:04 pm

Martin wrote:"The prime minister has been clear that he wants to do everything he can to support the family."



Huh! Just like the previous Prime Minister. And his government weren't adverse to the odd bucket of whitewash!
I wouldn't have thought that Cameron would allow anything other than a result that confirms his 'support'! His personal interest in the case goes back to before he was Prime Minister when he met with the gruesome twosome and also he had Mitchell as the Conservative party media co-ordinator during the election.


Well the McCanns should use the millions expected from book sales to reimburse the Met. Otherwise its a "double-whammy" for the hard working folks of this nation. Pay for the investigation/review/whitewash by purchasing the book AND through your taxes! And don't forget the Suns special offer of only £18 per copy!!!!

Seriously, the Met should invoice the McCanns.

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Re: Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

Post  lj on Fri May 13, 2011 10:51 pm

pauline wrote:before commencing on the review - if the Met asked Kate McCann the 48 questions she wouldn't answer for the Portuguese police and she provided the records she wouldn't before - medical and bank records - this might help the Met decide whether this was in fact a kidnapping, or an accidental death covered up by the parents. If they decided it was a cover up than the huge cost of a review could be avoided.


Straight in the goal there Pauline, but I have the nagging feeling that the full and independent review does not involve any scrutiny of the neglectful parents.

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Re: Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

Post  ROSA on Sat May 14, 2011 2:50 am

No one else in the world gets the attention like the mc morons do i hope any new attention to the case will see them charged and locked up

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McCanns launch their book in Ireland

Post  pauline on Sat May 14, 2011 9:35 am

reading a report in the irish Independent today (sat) Gerry said that David Cameron said the money for the met. police review 'would not come out of the police budget'. So where is the money coming from? My mother always told me 'money does not grow on trees.'

Gerry was speaking at a book launch in the Merrion Hotel Dublin (not the cheapest hotel in Dublin by the way). The Mccanns didn't have book launches in the Uk as they were worried about the possibility of those who do not believe them causing trouble. They said half their mail comes from Ireland and is supportive. Due to the Queen's visit next week, there is a security lockdown in Dublin so they must have felt safe (as they did on their holiday!) to have a book launch in Dublin.

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Re: Madeleine McCann police review to take years and cost millions

Post  PeterMac on Sat May 14, 2011 9:46 am

Go back to basics.
1 Buy a pack of highlighting pens

2 Read the McCanns initial statements.
3 Then read their subsequent statements.
4 Then read the Tapas7 intial statements
5 Then read the Tapas7 Rogatories

6 Buy a new pack of highlighting pens

7 Bring the McCanns in for "clarification of a number of points"
8 Interview them separately
Or as my old DI used to say "Bring his grandmother in"

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