19 May Mail on Sunday: 'MADDIE: UK CLEANERS ARE SUSPECTS' + WHO SOOTHED A WEEPING MADDIE the Express

Nina wrote:

russiandoll wrote:textusa blog reporting Portuguese media mentioning 5 listed people.

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Kepharel wrote:A ‘good number of individuals’ and ‘more than a handful’ with ‘a high probability’ that the suspect was already in the PJ files will surely send some forum investigators to list all names appearing in the files which number surely qualifies the quantitative definition. There you have it! The perpetrator will probably feature in that list?

russiandoll wrote:Madeleine McCann detectives identify ‘potential suspects’ but won’t tell us how many or why
by Anorak | 17th, May 2013

MADELEINE
McCann vanished six years ago. Another summer of sighting looms, all
eagerly reported by newspapers looking for easy news in the
shark-spotting season. The Evening Standard reports:

British police identify new leads in hunt for Madeleine McCann and urge Portuguese to act

Go on:

Scotland
Yard has identified a number of potential suspects who may have
abducted Madeleine McCann, the force’s top detective revealed today.

Can he be a little less vague?

Investigators carrying out a review of the case have drawn up a list of people who they say are “of interest” to the inquiry.

Can they name names? Hope so. Without names we have nothing to see. It;s just no-news news:

Detective
Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, the head of Scotland Yard’s
Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said there were a “good number” of
individuals who should be questioned.

Why? Who? And who is DCS Campbell? Well, he works on the Met’s Madeleine McCann Review Team.

Today he urged the Portuguese authorities to investigate the new leads identified by the British review.

But why tell the media? Surely Portugal, the is country’s oldest ally needs no prompting in the media?

DCS
Campbell, speaking on the eve of his retirement from the Met, said:
“There are a lot of people of interest. There are people who could be
properly explored further, if only to be eliminated.”

Eliminate! Eliminate!

He refused to give numbers but said there was “more than a handful” of names of “people of interest”.

Why refuse facts?

…Today
DCS Campbell said the 30-strong review squad had done a “fantastic” job
in identifying “further investigative and forensic opportunities.”

Good. Progress.

He
said it was “perfectly probable” that information which could identify
the suspect responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance was already within
the Portuguese files.

Er…

He added: “We have to ask
ourselves why are cases unsolved and, on many occasions, we find we
passed the suspects by already and the suspect sits within our system.”

Sure. But what specifically has been found?

Detectives
from the Yard’s team have travelled to Portugal around 10 times to
liaise with the authorities there and gather evidence in an inquiry
which has cost more than £2 million.

So far, Portugal’s attorney
general has ruled out a new inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance but
the comments from the senior Yard detective will raise hopes of a fresh
investigation.

DCS Campbell said: “The Portuguese hopefully will
pursue some of these investigative opportunities with our assistance.
There is room for further work and collaboration to resolve the case.”

Isn’t good detective work about facts?

He
re-iterated a claim that Madeleine could still be alive. He said: “You
only have to look at the case in Cleveland, Ohio, and the European
cases. Of course, there is a possibility she is alive, you cannot
exclude it. But the key is to investigate the case and, alive or dead,
we should be able to try and discern what happened.”

Yes. Try to find out what happened. In other words, the police should investigate. Hurrah for the expert copper.

He added: “The purpose of the review is to look at it with fresh eyes…there has been real benefit in doing it.”

Such are the facts…

Smokeandmirrors wrote:Does anyone on here live near Rothley? If they do, how do they fancy going on a drive and reporting back? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Portia wrote:

Smokeandmirrors wrote:Does anyone on here live near Rothley? If they do, how do they fancy going on a drive and reporting back? [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Yeah, that's right!

Didn't we have this nice little lurker newby Kevin J420 just living around the corner popping his head into our forum the other day?

Hey you, this is your moment: grab your camera and let's have it first hand, shall we?

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noddy100 wrote:I really hope we wake up tomorrow to a big story. They are not in Rothley for nothing.

Newintown wrote:

nomendelta wrote:

Newintown wrote:I've just been listening to an interview on Sky News with the former commander of scotland yard, John O'Connor, and according to him Kate & Gerry McCann are completely clear of anything to do with Madeleine's disappearance!!!

No doubt it will be repeated at 7.00 p.m. on Sky News.

But as someone famously said...you can't prove a negative! Until they find out conclusively what happened to that child the McCanns can surely NEVER be completely free from suspicion?

Yes, but when you have friends in high places it's amazing what they can do for you.

Nina wrote:Well it looks like front page news in the morning for most of the papers. I always watch Sky news what the papers are saying at 10.30 and again at 11.30 so will be very interesting tonight.

Lostfridge wrote:Paint it white

sweetex wrote:Sorry for going OT but does someone has a link to where I can see what Gerry and Kate looked like with the last vigil. I saw more than one person mentioning that they were devestated, and I haven't seen any images from that specific day.

plebgate wrote:IF as the Mail article says, the SY team are urging the Portugese to investigate their leads but the Portugese will not, will Mr. & Mrs. now re-start their own private investigation to find Maddie?