Madeleine McCann funding milestone looms, 11 years after girl vanishes

by **Jill Havern** 10.09.18 13:24

Madeleine McCann funding milestone looms, 11 years after girl vanishes

By Mark Saunokonoko
11:54am Sep 10, 2018

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann travelled to Portugal twice last year, as they seek answers to a cold case which has baffled police.
Maddie vanished while on holiday in 2007 with her family in Praia da Luz, a coastal town popular with Britons on the Algarve.
London's Metropolitan Police purchased a total of five flights for two separate trips to Portugal, according to a Freedom of Information request lodged with Scotland Yard.
The five flights cost $2,254, with detectives spending a further $1600 on accommodation and taxis, UK media reports.

Operation Grange, which was set up in 2011 to review and investigate Madeleine's disappearance, is currently funded by the Home Office on a rolling six-month term.
Since its inception, Operation Grange has cost British tax payers more than $20 million.
It is understood Operation Grange has never formally interviewed Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, or the seven friends they were on holiday with who became known as the Tapas 7.

Mr and Mrs McCann, from Rothley in Leicestershire, strenuously deny any involvement in the disappearance of their daughter.
The couple later waged a bitter legal fight with a former lead detective on the case who wrote an explosive book theorising Maddie died in apartment 5A, the abduction was staged and her body hidden.
In March the Home Office granted a further $270,000 to Operation Grange, but that is due to expire at the end of this month.

https://www.9news.com.au/2018/09/10/11/54/madeleine-mccann-funding-milestone-looms-11-years-after-girl-vanishes

There's a video on this link ^^^

by willowthewisp 10.09.18 15:32

Hi Jill Havern,isn't it funny that all of these Red Top Rags come out en masse just when the "Funding element" on Operation Grange is about to end,its just like a rolling contract now payable until we say stop,enough?

Trouble is the "Enough" is past its date now and the genie cannot get back into the "Operation Grange",Scented bottle,often found at the bottom of a Budgies cage,ending in **it?

It must sound more expensive quoting in dollars to how much in sterling,part of an "hidden Agenda" to close Operation Grange,let Netflix come up with a Pro McCann alternative,like a UK Police review,Rebekah Brooks,David Cameron?

by Verdi 10.09.18 16:16

What a total non-event!

This is all old regurgitated news which is getting weaker and weaker as the years roll by - paving the way for another fuel injection for Operation Grange.

Who cares how many times officers of the law travelled to Portugal since the inception of Operation Grange. What I want to know is how the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is progressing; if not then what the heck are they spending millions of public funds on, that's our money, with little or no development?

Also I would like to know if the McCanns themselves, in the flesh, have travelled to Portugal to search for their missing child. They repeatedly say, to this day, that they are continuing the search, well technically, to continue your search you need to have started a search in the first place, which they didn't do - not even on the night of 3rd/4th May 2007.

I've yet to see any evidence of this proclaimed ongoing Find Madeleine search campaign. We have a limited company set-up to harbour public donations to assist this ficticious search; we have the McCanns legal action against Mr Amaral because he was allegedly hampering this ficticious 'search'; we have scores of McCann team interviews with the word 'search' bleated out ad-nauseam.

What ever became of the Tapas groupies? What search? Madeleine who?