OPERATION GRANGE - Independent 4/10/13 SY Review Team says there's now *41* persons of interest, and they're trying with the help of Interpol to track mobile 'phones linked to 31 countries worldwide... *PLUS* A new Crimewatch TV appeal in FOUR countries

paddinton wrote:

ShuBob wrote:Please is there any idea how this development is being reported in Portugal?

Hi ShuBob,

According to this Daily Mail article this story eminates from Correio da Manha.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2443057/Madeleine-McCann-Scotland-Yard-trawls-phone-records-ALL-tourists-staying-Maddie-resort.html

Sceptic wrote:So if Redwood says they have a whole new theory - does that rule out abduction?

regarding the SMS texts, my understanding is they can identify who sent or received texts but wont be able to access the content

MRNOODLES wrote:Crimewatch should be interesting.

Hopefully it might be a step forward the McCs to have to explain the inconsistencies.

jeanmonroe wrote:Maddie McCann was snatched by an Algarve paedo ring according to new police theory
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Oh well, there goes the McCanns  'no harm to Madeleine' theory then!

russiandoll wrote:Guardian 4th October.

British detectives say the key to Madeleine McCann's disappearance could emerge from a "targeted attack" on mobile phone data from thousands of people who were around the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz at the moment she went missing.
The line of investigation was disclosed as it was announced that Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, would appear on the BBC's Crimewatch programme with the British detective in charge of the case.
The programme will broadcast a reconstruction of the events before Madeleine disappeared and the McCanns will make an appeal for anyone who was in the resort at the time, and has yet to come forward, to contact police.
Similar appeals will be broadcast in Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland.
The "footprints" from the phones of holidaymakers, staff and local people who were in the vicinity of the McCanns' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz when the three-year-old disappeared in May 2007 are being examined and cross-referenced with other information coming into the British inquiry team, officers have said.
Forty-one individuals from several countries including the UK are being investigated as persons of interest by the Metropolitan police, and official requests for assistance have been sent to 31 countries including Portugal to identify other people whose mobile footprints have emerged in the sifting and resifting of tens of thousands of documents, communications data and eyewitness statements.
The new British investigation began as part of a £5m review of all the evidence after an appeal for help by Madeleine's parents to David Cameron.
It is not known how many of the 41 individuals – among them 15 Britons – are considered suspects.
Many are people who need to be questioned in order to be eliminated from the inquiry. But detectives are known to have uncovered new leads and theories about what happened to Madeleine while her parents were eating a meal with friends at a restaurant in the resort.
It is known that some of the people of interest are sex offenders who were in the area at the time.Police will analyse mobile phone data to track any calls that might have been made from the resort to others outside it, as they investigate whether there was any kind of ring involved in the girl's suspected abduction.
Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the investigation, said the analysis of mobile phone data originally collected by the Portuguese had gone beyond the stage of a general trawl, and was now being cross-referenced with other information.
His team have been cross-referencing tens of thousands of documents, communications data and witness statements from the Portuguese investigation, from eight private detectives and from the Leicestershire force.
"The mobile phone data is a substantial amount of data and a significant amount of it is unattributed. Putting this with layers and layers of other information, we are carrying out a targeted attack on the information. We are doing this in a focused way, working back from the moment that Madeleine was found to have gone. It is like pulling back the layers of an onion. Every hour my officers work on this case is designed to get to that very moment and find out what happened," he said.
Six detectives in Portugal are working with the Met and making inquiries on their behalf. But the plan to send a team of Met officers to work out of Portugal has yet to be acted upon, as delicate negotiations continue with the Portuguese authorities, who closed their investigation and have refused all appeals to reopen it.

Cristobell wrote:

Tony Bennett wrote:

candyfloss wrote:I have always had faith in SY and that they would bring whoever was responsible for Madeleine's disappearance to justice.  However there is one niggle, [i]call me cynical[i], but releasing this info, slap bang in the middle of a libel trial, and just when Mr Amaral's witnesses are about to give evidence??

 Is this right?

Kate & Gerry have already agreed to stand shoulder to shoulder with detectives on the Crimewatch programme (whether live or pre-recorded I am not sure, presumably the latter).

The reconstruction has probably been done, is in the can, and was probaaly approved by the McCann Team weeks ago.

The only thing left to be decided was which Monday the Crimewatch programme was to be shown.

They have chosen 14 October. Why is anyone's guess.

All I want to say, and I acknowledge the optimism of sallypelt, ShuBob and many others, is that there must be a very very good professional reason for the police and the BBC to give us a Crimewatch special on Madeleine McCann 6 years and 5 months after her disappearance.

Just as there must also be a very very good professional reason for Scotland Yard to want to:

* interview 41 persons of interest
* examine 37,148 documents
* pursue nearly 4,000 'actions'
* pursue, in 31 countries, the ownership of thousands of cell phones (many of them pay-as-you-go) and the data on them
* establish a team based in the Algarve to conduct their ongoing investigations.

What is the purpose and premise of Crimewatch?

That someone watching will come up with the vital clue which will solve the crime.

So it remains to be seen exactly what they want the millions of people watching the programme to do

It should be remembered that the Philpotts did a shoulder to shoulder appeal with the Met police alongside them and look how that turned out.

loopzdaloop wrote:

MRNOODLES wrote:Crimewatch should be interesting.

Hopefully it might be a step forward the McCs to have to explain the inconsistencies.

Me too, I read the story as a ploy to get the mccanns and Tapas to do a reconstruction.
"every other holiday maker in Portugal has cooperated, why not you?"

jeanmonroe wrote:I also doubt they will try to pin it on a dead guy..what would be the point, there can be no proper resolution if that were the case, and of course, the latest development re mobile calls may be to do the complete opposite, i.e. prove that Raymond Hewlett and Urs Hans Von Aesch were no where near the vicinity at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.
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And they could have done that YEARS ago anyway, and SAVED £6 million!

And why let the poor McCanns and the twins suffer, all these years, when they could have already been told the cause of her 'disappearance'?

And been getting on with 'things'.

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:I don't know if Cristobell will understand the reason for your question any more than I do!

Here's a Wikipedia link to the infamous Philpotts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Philpott

susible wrote:
The timing of this announcement is good as well, because it puts the final nail in the coffin of the libel trial...clearly Snr Amaral's book has not influenced the SY investigation in any way whatsoever, there they are thoroughly investigation every single potential clue, at a cost of millions...hardly a "hampered and hindered" search!

candyfloss wrote:I have always had faith in SY and that they would bring whoever was responsible for Madeleine's disappearance to justice.  However there is one niggle, call me cynical, but releasing this info, slap bang in the middle of a libel trial, and just when Mr Amaral's witnesses are about to give evidence??

No Fate Worse Than De'Ath wrote:I don't know if Cristobell will understand the reason for your question any more than I do!

Here's a Wikipedia link to the infamous Philpotts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Philpott