Madeleine McCann hunt set to continue as Met Police handed MORE funds to track down missing girl

MADDIE HUNT BOOST
Madeleine McCann hunt set to continue as Met Police handed MORE funds to track down missing girl

Kate and Gerry McCann have been waiting to find out if Operation Grange will receive more funding

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Patrick Knox and Tracey Kandohla
26th March 2018, 9:23 pm
Updated: 26th March 2018, 9:24 pm

THE hunt for Madeleine McCann has received a lifeline after police are granted more cash to carry on the search.
Home Office spokesperson said: “The Government remains committed to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann (Operation Grange).


"We have briefed the MPS that its application for Special Grant funding for Operation Grange will be granted.”

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] vanished from her family's villa in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.
It is unclear how much the Met will receive.
More to follow...

What a surprise, TK keeping Maddie in the news. Why does she never interview her pals on this annual funding circus?

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Thanks for posting this news so promptly.  As we expected.
How is it that these two "journalists" have this information?  Nothing on BBC or Guardian sites.  It stinks.  On with the show.
ETA: Mail has an exclusive!  Final line of enquiry...

Ladyinred wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Thanks for posting this news so promptly.  As we expected.
How is it that these two "journalists" have this information?  Nothing on BBC or Guardian sites.  It stinks.  On with the show.

How is it that these two "journalists" have this information?

Just remember who was behind the set up of operation Grange, hacking suspect and story seller Rebekah Brooks.   This was a great big red flag for me, right from the start.  Why would someone like her demand the set up of such a review, other than to profit from it.  If the government didn't do as she requested, she would print a week of bad headlines about Theresa May.

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MADDIE HUNT BOOST
Madeleine McCann hunt set to continue as Met Police handed MORE funds to track down missing girl

Kate and Gerry McCann have been waiting to find out if Operation Grange will receive more funding

By Patrick Knox and Tracey Kandohla
26th March 2018, 9:47 pm
Updated: 26th March 2018, 10:39 pm
MADDIE McCann's parents were tonight given fresh hope as it was confirmed cops would get extra money to find the missing girl. 
The Home Office confirmed Scotland Yard would get the funds to chase a vital “final line of inquiry”.

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Kate and Gerry McCann were tonight "incredibly grateful", a family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said tonight.
He said: “They are very encouraged that the Met Police still believe there is work left to be done and they are incredibly grateful to the Home Office for providing an extra  budget for the investigation.”
The Operation Grange team have been granted an as yet undisclosed sum to keep the seven-year inquiry going for the next six months until the end of September.
The current funding of £154,000 for the Maddie inquiry runs out in just five days.

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The Home Office confirmed tonight: “The Government remains committed to the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
"We have briefed the Mps that its application for Special Grant funding for Operation Grange will be granted.”
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Gerry and Kate McCann have never given up hope of finding their daughter
Former GP turned medical worker Kate, 50, and heart doctor Gerry, 49, of Rothley, Leicestershire, cling onto a glimmer of hope that Maddie could still be alive after nearly 11 years.
She would be aged 14.
Detectives have refused to discuss details of the “important final line of inquiry” they are pursuing.
A Scotland Yard spokesperson said: “We cannot give a running commentary on the investigation while it is ongoing.”
But the British force is determined to crack the world’s biggest ever child mystery despite just  four officers remaining on the case.

Detectives have refused to discuss details of the “important final line of inquiry” they are pursuing.

  They've always got one more final line of enquiry.

Get'emGonçalo wrote:Detectives have refused to discuss details of the “important final line of inquiry” they are pursuing.

  They've always got one more final line of enquiry.

  Yes, how many final lines of enquiry are there going to be?  If they're going to solve the case they need to start following the official line of enquiry.  , I forgot, they're not permitted to follow that line, the one that all the evidence points too.

What exactly are they doing then?  Knowingly putting themselves on a wild goose chase that they know will achieve no results, or are they just there for media purposes but actually doing nothing?

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It's just another excuse for more police to go on holiday

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SICK N TIRED OF THIS CHARITY OG, please tell us what u intend to waste our money on this time ? How about the FINAL line inquiry is to question the McCanns and tapas bunch ... u will find the answer right there at the very start of this fiasco, I don’t give any permission for my taxes to be wasted in this way anymore, do your jobs right or get sacked like I would !

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Enough is enough, i don't remember all that money
being spent on Ben Needham when he went missing.
Oh i forgot he wasn't a well to do family.


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if its proved the McCann's had something to do with it will they have to pay back all this taxpayers money?

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@Pail smith OK. Hilary Clinton was in a paedophile ring. And Eamon Holmes is actually a lizard. And Sting landed on Earth on the back of a meteorite. 

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@speediedixon Man, you're a bit thick. the £154,000 was the last several months' funding. It just runs out in 5 days, that's all. They are not spending 154k in 5 days.

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If she was going to be found they would of found her by now what about all the kids that have gone missing in Britain there parents don't get offered police help and there parents didnt leave them at home and go out for dinner !!!!!

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This is disgusting and unbelievable that they have got further funding.




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Folk even

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@simon cockerham Actually, the law does not specify an age when a child can be left at home alone. In this country, anyway. It is an offence if leaving the child at home alone "puts him or her at risk". Which I suppose is up for debate.

The public are being drip fed - it's like Chinese torture. Drip ... drip ... drip ... drip ...

What's more, the cost (?) so far has been stuck on £11 million for years. In fact it's gone down a bit, it was £12 million +.

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Back off Ides of March - April fools are hot on yer rump.

First time I have seen this...Madeleine was first reported missing on the night of May 3, 2007, after she was allegedly left alone in the family apartment

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The London Metropolitan Police have been given another tranche of public money to keep alive the 11-year hunt for missing British girl Madeleine McCann.


Madeleine, then aged three, mysteriously vanished while on holiday with her family in Portugal and has never been found – despite massive investigations by British and Portuguese police.


Around $275,000 has today been given to Operation Grange detectives to chase up an "important final line of inquiry", according to reports in British media.



The new injection of funds will keep Operation Grange running for another six months; it roughly covers the half-yearly salaries of four detectives and a small number of incidental costs.


Operation Grange detectives have refused to say what the "final line of enquiry" is.


Since being launched in 2011, and receiving more than $21m from the UK government, Operation Grange detectives have not confirmed whether they have questioned Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.


It is believed the members of the Tapas 7, a group of friends who were on holiday with the McCanns in Praia da Luz when Maddie vanished, have also never been interviewed by London Met police officers.



Madeleine was first reported missing on the night of May 3, 2007, after she was allegedly left alone in the family apartment with her younger twin brother and sister while the McCanns were dining with friends at a nearby Tapas bar


Kate and Gerry McCann have always claimed their daughter was abducted by a stranger, probably by a child sex predator in a planned attack.


They have steadfastly denied any wrongdoing in the disappearance of their daughter.

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Mark Saunokonoko wrote:Madeleine was first reported missing on the night of May 3, 2007, after she was allegedly left alone in the family apartment with her younger twin brother and sister while the McCanns were dining with friends at a Tapas bar

Clearly this gentleman has his head screwed on the right way !!!

£150,000 for 6 months is peanuts as far as Police expenditure goes.

It's just ticking over money.

There is no serious investigation still being carried on.

Looks like the Home Office has given the magic money tree another shake.

The BBC reports this along with the usual claptrap over the OG fake timeline.

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What are the OG team doing all day ??? Reading magazines and staring out of windows? A classic case of how public expenditure , once started, just rolls on and on.

If we really thought they were trying to solve the case, re-interviewing the obvious suspects, re-examining the crèche records, speaking to Goncalo Amaral about his conclusions, interviewing the rest of the Tapas group, looking at weather records, re-examining the photos, speaking to Peter Hyatt etc then no-one would begrudge them spending the money. But to this point it is so little return for all the expenditure incurred, and no evidence that they are looking in the right places.

As a further thought, if it was my job to approve this expenditure then I would tell the McCanns that not another penny would be spent until Kate  had returned to Portugal to answer the 48 questions she refused to answer 10 years ago.

I think the misconception amongst some is that there is a DEDICATED team to OG and thus 150k won’t go far.

I believe they review the case/relevant information as & when......and that’s if they do anything at all.

It’s a sham

Madeleine McCann investigation to be drastically scaled back, Scotland Yard says

Metropolitan Police says number of British officers working on investigation into disappearance of Madeleine McCann to be reduced from 29 to four

By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

3:39PM GMT 28 Oct 2015

The Scotland Yard investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is being scaled down, it has been announced.

Operation Grange, which was launched in 2011, will continue but will have the number of full time officers working on the case reduced from 29 to just four.

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29 to just four? Why not 29 to just 4 or twenty nine to just 4, or twenty nine to just four? A mind game to play down the 4 - like less is the new more?

Verdi wrote:Madeleine McCann investigation to be drastically scaled back, Scotland Yard says

Metropolitan Police says number of British officers working on investigation into disappearance of Madeleine McCann to be reduced from 29 to four

By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

3:39PM GMT 28 Oct 2015

The Scotland Yard investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is being scaled down, it has been announced.

Operation Grange, which was launched in 2011, will continue but will have the number of full time officers working on the case reduced from 29 to just four.

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29 to just four?  Why not 29 to just 4 or twenty nine to just 4, or twenty nine to just four?  A mind game to play down the 4 - like less is the new more

This is a tricky area, but a rule of thumb is, when stating numbers under ten, they are usually written in words, but all numbers over 10 are written as 11, 12 etc. However, there's no right or wrong.

sallypelt wrote:This is a tricky area, but a rule of thumb is, when stating numbers under ten, they are usually written in words, but all numbers over 10 are written as 11, 12 etc. However, there's no right or wrong.

Don't think I've ever heard that rule of thumb before, I was however just being facetious.

The point of linking to the article is a reminder that Operation Grange was drastically scaled back in October 2015.

Verdi wrote:

sallypelt wrote:This is a tricky area, but a rule of thumb is, when stating numbers under ten, they are usually written in words, but all numbers over 10 are written as 11, 12 etc. However, there's no right or wrong.

Don't think I've ever heard that rule of thumb before, I was however just being facetious.

The point of linking to the article is a reminder that Operation Grange was drastically scaled back in October 2015.  

You do realise there is an awful lot of paper work to digest,when it comes investigations and to your retirement from the Police force,with the different levels of pay over the service life time,which was previously set at a 30 yrs for Maximum Pension,ergo if you had less than Ten years to serve in 2010 whilst working on Operation Grange you now only require Four more six monthly facilitation from the Home Office to Cross the T's and dot the I's,for he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us,hip,hip Hooray,ker ching!

It must have felt like the Painters on the Firth of fourth, Operation Grange Remit,Abduction,with the Red Lead Paint,but then Scientists made a paint that did not require to be re-applied Annually,was that a job or Pennance?

BlueBag wrote:£150,000 for 6 months is peanuts as far as Police expenditure goes.

It's just ticking over money.

There is no serious investigation still being carried on.

+1 BB

Cressida Dick on The One Show. An ideal opportunity to ask about Operation Grange. Oh hang on, it’s the BBC.

Bottle jobs

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] portugalresident.com “Operation Grange detectives have refused to say what the "final line of enquiry" is”, affirm reports, but it continues to be used as justification for yet more British Home Office funding with a view to discovering what happened to Madeleine McCann - the little girl who vanished almost 11 years ago from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. The new tranche of £150,000 will purportedly take Grange forwards for another six months.

“Operation Grange detectives have refused to say what the "final line of enquiry" is”, affirm reports, but it continues to be used as justification for yet more British Home Office funding with a view to discovering what happened to Madeleine McCann - the little girl who vanished almost 11 years ago from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.
The new tranche of £150,000 will purportedly take Grange forwards for another six months.
Coincidentally, a new thesis on the mystery - only last month mailed to Portugal’s Attorney General in the hope that it might change the status quo ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) - appears to have fallen on stony ground.
The theory, developed over the years by a number of professionals - including a former British police superintendent - challenges the starting point of Grange, which has consistently run-up against claims that its remit is far too narrow ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) and that the £11 million and rising spent on it this far has been “an expensive farce”.
Certainly, last night’s news regarding the new tranche of funding has prompted an outpouring of criticism from online readers - particularly in the Sun which is, as we write, allowing no-holds-barred comments through, apparently unmonitored.



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Whatever is going on, the Home Office must be convinced. This cash does mean that FOI requests can be avoided for another 6 months. I wonder if that is it.

polyenne wrote:Cressida Dick on The One Show. An ideal opportunity to ask about Operation Grange. Oh hang on, it’s the BBC.

Bottle jobs

Yes, I watched it too.  She was there to discuss knife crime.

About time she appeared on 5 Live's "Your Call" with Nicky Campbell!

What are they investigating?

After 11 years there is still not one iota of evidence that Maddie was abducted by a stranger or family or tapas member.
If there had been then it would have been spread all over the media.
What is missing is them stating that the final line of enquiry involves forensic evidence showing abduction.
Come to think of it, what is missing is mention of any enquiry involving forensic evidence which is strange given all the forensic evidence which exists.

Given the crime occurred in Portugal, what are the UK police investigating since any prosecution would be in Portugal by Portuguese prosecutors.

Could the UK police be investigating the one thing they can prosecute which is the fund?
Financial investigations can take time.

meanwhile no matter how much money they throw at Operation Grange, until they haul the mccanns, the tapas 7 and even clarrie in for interviews preferably all at the exact same time and all in separate police stations then they will get nowhere.
What criminal investigation especially in the case of a missing child where homicide, concealment of a corpse and filing a false police report are the minimum charges being faced does not interview the parents and those who had access to the missing child at the time of the alleged disappearance?

Statistics alone show most homicides of children are committed by parents/guardians or someone known to the family.
In cases where abduction is claimed the vast majority is where a parent/guardian has faked an abduction to conceal a homicide of a child or abduction is by a non custodial parent.

Claims that there is no evidence that Maddie has come to serious harm is refuted by the forensic evidence of body fluids and blood in the apartment and hire car and also by the reactions of trained blood and cadaver dogs in the apartment, hire car and on  a pair of kate's checked pants, a child's red t shirt and the infamous cuddle cat.

Given also the claim by the mccanns that she was abducted by a paedophile, i would question what their definition of serious harm is if  repeated rape and sexual abuse does not constitute serious harm.
If Maddie was a victim of sexual abuse at home or at the hands of others prior to or during said vacation, does this mean that they do not consider it serious harm as no parent would deliberately want to seriously harm their child.

This is something i would ask them about.

It would also explain the distancing language in relation to Maddie by her parents  prior to her death, for she is long dead and subsequent when they refer to her as child, girl or even getting her name wrong completely.
it would also explain their behavior, there was no emotional bond with Maddie with kate positively blooming after Maddie was gone.

Operation Grange can only be taken seriously as a criminal investigation if the follow SOP and arrest and interview the mccanns, the tapas 7 and clarrie under caution.
I include clarrie since he has leaked so much including that Maddie is dead and he knows it.

I personally would also interview the extended families of kate and gerry to learn their relationship emotionally with Maddie, what they know regarding the initial calls that Thursday night and what they learned during their time in PDL.
I would also ask about their relationships with the mccanns today, if they have heard anything that gives them pause, if they know anything which could be of use to the investigation, with a healthy reminder that failing to cooperate will be considered obstruction of justice or perverting the course of justice.

Until  everyone is arrested under caution, the UK investigation will simply tread water and gain nothing for the millions spent.
Operation grange needs to grow a pair and do some actual policing.

Those who seek to conceal and block the investigation will always be found out, history will do that and woe betide those who are still alive when the truth comes out as it will.
Someone will speak, the guilt will eat away.
A secret is not a secret if more than one person knows.

In the meantime we do not know what the PJ know nor do we know what or who they are investigating.
There is no time limit on the crime of murder, remember it was kate who told us the Portuguese don't want a murder.


"They want me to lie - I'm being framed.

 

"Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us."'

Note also kate uses the pronoun I'm in relation to being framed but uses the pronoun we in relation to publicity about paedophile laws.

Why would she use the first person singular in relation to being framed when both her and gerry were suspects?
Who was doing the alleged framing?
WE shows shared unity and cooperation.

Was kate leaking responsibility?
What was she being framed for?
She links the framing  with the crime of murder.
She is admitting then that there is evidence forensic and otherwise that would indicate a death, a murder.
Something that could not be explained away as accidental.
This would preclude something like accidental overdose, Maddie finding pills and eating them thinking they were candy.
Does this mean there were physical injuries that could not be explained away as accidental?
Old injuries or scars?
Healing injuries that perhaps would have required hospital treatment?
Fresh injuries that were clearly non accidental?
Signs perhaps of medical intervention such as CPR which often breaks ribs (it is not nice and easy as per the movies, CPR is brutal) or maybe a tracheostomy or something else?

Did Maddie die of something so bad that it could not be explained away and an autopsy must be prevented at all costs?

Only by interviewing everyone under caution with frequent reminders of the penalties for no cooperation, obstruction of justice, perverting the course of justice, aiding and abetting an offender, homicide, concealment of a corpse, filing a false police report, perjury and anything else they can think of before they start introducing things regarding the fund such as fraud, obtaining money and services by deception, wire fraud etc.

As it stands, UK policing is a laughing stock as even the most inept police forces at least would interview the parents and those who had access to the missing child as a start.

I cannot understand how the police are getting away with saying they are not interviewing the McCanns or their holiday gang. Everyone knows KM refused to answer the Portuguese police questions, so the British police can't pretend she has been investigated. But it's all of a piece with the media being gagged, and newspaper comments being strictly censored. You are allowed to toe the official line of "they shouldn't have left them alone" but any hint they were responsible for her disappearance don't get shown. Except for the Sun sometimes! Corruption rules in this beknighted land.