Madeleine: The Last Hope? - Panorama UPDATED 7.30 25th April (only certain areas) and 8.30 pm Mon 30th April 2012

by Guest 20.04.12 14:34

About this programme

Five years ago this week, Madeleine McCann disappeared from a family holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal, and has never been found. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, are adamant that their daughter was abducted by a predator and persuaded Prime Minister David Cameron to order a review of the case by the Metropolitan Police. Here, the senior UK investigator talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts.

Cast and crew

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ReporterRichard Bilton
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EditorTom Giles
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by **PeterMac** 20.04.12 14:43

candyfloss wrote:About this programme
Five years ago this week, Madeleine McCann disappeared from a family holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal, and has never been found. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, are adamant that their daughter was abducted by a predator and persuaded Prime Minister David Cameron to order a review of the case by the Metropolitan Police. Here, the senior UK investigator talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts.

Fascinating coice of language.
Her parents are adamant that their daughter was abducted ... which implies ONLY her parents
he has the best opportunity to establish the facts. ... NOT "to find Madeleine, and return her unhurt and unharmed to her parents."

by Guest 20.04.12 14:49

PeterMac wrote:
candyfloss wrote:About this programme
Five years ago this week, Madeleine McCann disappeared from a family holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal, and has never been found. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, are adamant that their daughter was abducted by a predator and persuaded Prime Minister David Cameron to order a review of the case by the Metropolitan Police. Here, the senior UK investigator talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts.
Fascinating coice of language.
Her parents are adamant that their daughter was abducted ... which implies ONLY her parents
he has the best opportunity to establish the facts. ... NOT "to find Madeleine, and return her unhurt and unharmed to her parents."

Indeed PeterMac yes

by Guest 20.04.12 16:47

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I wonder if the Panorama team have gleaned any useful information from this forum during all their many visits?

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by Guest 20.04.12 16:55

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I wonder if the Panorama team have gleaned any useful information from this forum during all their many visits?

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342 visits!!!!!!

by Guest 20.04.12 16:57

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I wonder if the Panorama team have gleaned any useful information from this forum during all their many visits?

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342 visits!!!!!!

Yup! Nearly as many as Carter Ruck!

by Guest 20.04.12 17:08

As someone has just said on twitter.......

Complete secrecy surrounding the investigation. Curious little programme 2 air now [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Senior UK investigator talks #mccann

Considering SY were not commenting it is rather strange they should be giving an interview. Perhaps they mean the private detectives big grin

by aiyoyo 20.04.12 17:08

candyfloss wrote:
PeterMac wrote:
candyfloss wrote:About this programme
Five years ago this week, Madeleine McCann disappeared from a family holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal, and has never been found. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, are adamant that their daughter was abducted by a predator and persuaded Prime Minister David Cameron to order a review of the case by the Metropolitan Police. Here, the senior UK investigator talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts.
Fascinating coice of language.
Her parents are adamant that their daughter was abducted ... which implies ONLY her parents
he has the best opportunity to establish the facts. ... NOT "to find Madeleine, and return her unhurt and unharmed to her parents."

Indeed PeterMac

The more pertinent question may be why is the sr UK investigator talking to BBC prematurely when the review is still ongoing.
Or are they ready to conclude the review soon, or giving an indication of what to do?

Either way it is strange timing and strange move, unless it is to scrupper kate's new bewk because they are sick of the mccanns making money on the back of Maddie's name.

by Guest 20.04.12 17:24

Why Madeleine - the Last Hope? Very strange wording imo. Even if the review concludes with no definitive answer, then surely there would still be hope that Madeleine would turn up one day, if she was indeed abducted as it says in the programme description that the McCanns are adamant about that.

by **PeterMac** 20.04.12 17:30

Perhaps, since the McCanns INSIST that no one is pro-actively looking for Madeleine, "senior UK investigator" means Edgar !

by Guest 20.04.12 17:33

PeterMac wrote:Perhaps, since the McCanns INSIST that no one is pro-actively looking for Madeleine, "senior UK investigator" means Edgar !

Yes, I said that earlier, that they probably mean the PI's. It doesn't actually say SY Lead Investigator does it, only Senior UK Investigator.

by aiyoyo 20.04.12 17:38

If Edgar gives interview, it will be a historic first from the mccanns PIs because none has done so so far.

I doubt it is Edgar since no one knows whether he's still in Mccanns' employ. Looks like no PI is working for the mccanns else how to explain them not manning their hot line that the recent sighting had to be routed via the PP to Spanish Police?

One would have thought the with the kind of money mccanns pay surely their PI has the resources to organise a check out of the sighting instead of leaving this to go back forth between two police forces losing precious time critical to recovery of missing child.

It's strange why the mccanns didnt send their PI to Leh or to Negra to follow up ?

by Guest 20.04.12 17:44

PeterMac wrote:Perhaps, since the McCanns INSIST that no one is pro-actively looking for Madeleine, "senior UK investigator" means Edgar !

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by aiyoyo 20.04.12 17:44

candyfloss wrote:
PeterMac wrote:Perhaps, since the McCanns INSIST that no one is pro-actively looking for Madeleine, "senior UK investigator" means Edgar !

Yes, I said that earlier, that they probably mean the PI's. It doesn't actually say SY Lead Investigator does it, only Senior UK Investigator.

Surely their pte dick cannot be considered as "UK investigator" let alone senior or not!

IF they have only one PI where does the seniority come from without a hierarchy system?

by **PeterMac** 20.04.12 17:52

Bilton looks interesting. Has done some Panorama programmes exposing frauds and cheats, including a Met Pc letting out his council house, and other scams.
Perhaps he will ask some questions, even though, if it actually is DCI Andy Redwood, he will probably get no answers.
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by **tigger** 20.04.12 17:54

aiyoyo wrote:
candyfloss wrote:
PeterMac wrote:Perhaps, since the McCanns INSIST that no one is pro-actively looking for Madeleine, "senior UK investigator" means Edgar !

Yes, I said that earlier, that they probably mean the PI's. It doesn't actually say SY Lead Investigator does it, only Senior UK Investigator.

Surely their pte dick cannot be considered as "UK investigator" let alone senior or not!

IF they have only one PI where does the seniority come from without a hierarchy system?

Gerry was ready early with his jargon - such as 'pro-active', which means active basically. I could have an issue here, issue being another piece of jargon. I've once heard a telephone called a 'personal communications interface'.

Surely they're not going to trot out the untalented Mr. Edgar? In his stripey gangster suit? I don't have a TV - so will not have to suffer this.
I think you're all right on this, no way will SY do an interview at this stage.
It takes quite a long time to make these long documentaries doesn't it? So when was this one made? Six months ago or longer?
Perhaps it's going to be a lot of old footage, urgent voice overs, a couple of interviews and Wallace and Grommit imitations from the leading players.

by russiandoll 20.04.12 18:00

this will be media spin I think, but are their PIs working now and if so, collaborating with the PJ?
hope I am right thinking no way SY will give an interview while review in progress.
I heard Bilton did some very fawning McCann stuff a while back, if so, possibly more of the same, tie- in with anniversary.
still, establishing the facts sounds more like proper police-speak....so, confusing.

by jay2001 20.04.12 18:24

Aiyoyo - surely you haven't forgotten the press conference clara and edgar did in 2009?!! Remember when that clown who'd been living on Mars on some other planet suddenly remembered seeing Vicky Becks lookalike in Barcelona. Two years after his amnesia cleared he sparked off that weird tale. Think the finale was a boat belonging to some socialite with connections to murkydoc in Oz!

How's Panorama going to fit all this material into half an hour.

by happychick 20.04.12 18:38

Richard Bilton has already done a Panorama programme on Madeleine hasn't he? I recall it was Jeremy Vine who did the introduction. Can't remember the name of it now though.

by **tigger** 20.04.12 19:04

happychick wrote:Richard Bilton has already done a Panorama programme on Madeleine hasn't he? I recall it was Jeremy Vine who did the introduction. Can't remember the name of it now though.

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This is the transcript, at a quick glance it doesn't look promising, but lots of 'players'.

by nomendelta 20.04.12 19:16

This is most curious - I wonder how it will go. Jeremy Vine who presented the previous Panorama show has been shown to be pretty rabidly "pro" given his more recent ill-treatment of a caller to his radio show. If he is shown as hosting this new show then I think we are guaranteed a whitewash affair.

It would seem very foolish for the McCanns to be involved in something like this given it could allow them the chance to dig a deeper hole for themselves.

by aiyoyo 21.04.12 4:27

jay2001 wrote:Aiyoyo - surely you haven't forgotten the press conference clara and edgar did in 2009?!! Remember when that clown who'd been living on Mars on some other planet suddenly remembered seeing Vicky Becks lookalike in Barcelona. Two years after his amnesia cleared he sparked off that weird tale. Think the finale was a boat belonging to some socialite with connections to murkydoc in Oz!

How's Panorama going to fit all this material into half an hour.

But that was a press conference organised by team mccanns!
Generally speaking, people calling a conference will have total control over what they want to say - it's akin to making a public announcement.

Not the same as studio interview, which BBC Panorama is, where interviewer and interviewee is face to face, answering question one to one, and where there is no avoiding open questions.

After all this while of secretive dodgy PIs who have never ever tell the public anything about their work, process or result, surely control freak team mccanns is not going to start putting their PI (If any is still under their employ) in a "one to one interview" to fumble and stumble and.....

Personally I doubt any of the mccanns "so called PIs", be it the latest Edgar or whoever, will come on BBC panorama to discuss their fictional work even if the mccanns pay them through the nose just to go on such interview.
It's one thing getting paid retainer fee to do nothing, but quite another thing to come onto national TV to lie.
Mccanns spin

and doing their thing

about sightings had nothing do with the PIs legally speaking.

Far as I know none of their PIs has given interview to the Press or Media.
Press conference is a different thing altogether IMV. What's betting the press material was prepared by team mccanns.

Imagine Edgar one to one with Bilton, and him being asked about Leh sighting or Nerja's sighting and what has he done about it and what he has done so far? On my Godness that will be an opened tin of worms.....or should I say a pandora box! violin

by aiyoyo 21.04.12 5:06

tigger wrote:
happychick wrote:Richard Bilton has already done a Panorama programme on Madeleine hasn't he? I recall it was Jeremy Vine who did the introduction. Can't remember the name of it now though.

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This is the transcript, at a quick glance it doesn't look promising, but lots of 'players'.

Yes, that is almost like a group interview, like trying to establish the facts.

I read to the part where kate said "please continue to pray for her, she's lovely" and I thought wtf and gave up!
When Kate implores people to look for Maddie the best she can do is "please continue to look for her, she's lovely".
This is even worst,despite kate and gerry both being very articulate and vocal they cant do a proper plea for Maddie's sake.
All kate asked is for people to "continue" to pray for her!! yeah, and prayer is going to bring her back!

by Pershing36 21.04.12 8:22

The cynical side of me thinks this program is perfectly timed for when they need a fund boost. Isn't it suppose to be about now that the fund will run out of money?

by **tigger** 21.04.12 8:50

This program me was aired on the 19th November 2007.
Presumably it took up to two months to make - i.e. the interviews must have started some time in September, soon after the McCanns fled back to the UK.
I expect, with the help of Clarrie et al, that a preview for the T9 might have been a possibility or at least the transcript might have been made available to them.

The Rothley meeting was on the 18th I believe, so I would expect this to have been the time to synchronise their story lines.

The period up to the end of 2007 seems to have been rather dangerous for TM. But soon after that, the libel actions started, settlements were made, the press was gagged and leaks were stopped.

Murat-Kennedy meetings around 11/11/07.
Rothley meeting 18th? 11/07
Panorama aired 19th/11.

Hmmm. When did that nanny visit the McCs? I thought that too was in November.

by aiyoyo 21.04.12 9:06

Five years ago this week, Madeleine McCann disappeared from a family holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal, and has never been found. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, are adamant that their daughter was abducted by a predator and persuaded Prime Minister David Cameron to order a review of the case by the Metropolitan Police. Here, the senior UK investigator talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts.

Having re-read this I've no doubt the sr investigator must be of the Yard, because who else is working collaboratively with Portuguese police. Hmmm...the title " the last hope" is intriguing.

Although it has been said on another thread that the police never give up on cold cases, and unsolved cases do get reviewed periodically and get solved, this wont happen in the Mccanns case, IMV.

IMV, if this "special review" yields nothing, it will be the end of the road for this case.
If the review does not result in a reopening, this will be put aside for good, and never be reviewed again imo unless Madeleine body is found or someone fessed up. The former seems unlikely and the latter impossible.

by david_uk 21.04.12 9:07

no comments onthe panarama page yet!?

by The Slave 21.04.12 9:12

I'm really, really hoping that this programme might be a 'softener' for the die hard McCann fans. To prepare them for the realisation that they've all been had.
A gal can dream can't she?

by Guest 21.04.12 10:30

The BBC have obviously been reading here again big grin

- they have now changed the piece to include the name of Andy Redwood......

About this programme

Five years ago this week, Madeleine McCann disappeared from a family holiday apartment in the Algarve, Portugal, and has never been found. Her parents, Kate and Gerry, are adamant that their daughter was abducted by a predator and persuaded Prime Minister David Cameron to order a review of the case by the Metropolitan Police. Here, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, the senior UK investigator, talks to Richard Bilton about how he is working collaboratively with Portuguese police and explains why he believes he has the best opportunity yet to establish the facts.

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by aiyoyo 21.04.12 10:33

The very man himself, hooray! What is he going to say? and why at this stage?

Unless he's preparing the ground for SOMETHING!

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