Madeleine McCann investigation

[lyndie]

I saw today that possible excavations are to start in the resort where MM went missing.

Does anyone think the progress The Met have made is astonishing given the length of time that has elapsed? I can't help but wonder what progress could have been made if they had been involved at the start.

I really hope that somehow they can find out what happened and give her family some sort of closure. I know the ins and outs of what happened and her parents leaving her have been discussed at length on MN but from a crime point of view I would be very interested to see if the Portugese police had done enough or not.

I suppose anything is possible 6789 I don't know that I could hold something like that back from my partner but stranger things have happened

Costa I have read the files thanks I still don't see how the dog could be correct when the car wasn't hired for a month after mm disappeared. Dogs are good but their not perfect

I don't think I can elaborate on here but there is an possible explanation

From Kate and Gerry's website:

We are dismayed with the way the media has behaved over the last couple of days in relation to our daughter’s case. There is an on-going, already challenging, police investigation taking place and media interference in this way not only makes the work of the police more difficult, it can potentially damage and destroy the investigation altogether – and hence the chances of us finding Madeleine and discovering what has happened to her. As Madeleine’s parents, this just compounds our distress. We urge the media to let the police get on with their work and please show some respect and consideration to Madeleine and all our family.

Thank you.

Gerry and Kate

I hope this thread is pulled. It's full of pretty vile insinuations against the McCanns.

Shame they didn't think of that when they withhold the efit

It would seem that the car is a red herring but is it really? They are digging in an area which was over run with tourists and police and media so whatever was buried there wasn't. Buried that night or in the immediate aftermath as it would have been seen. Yet the police are looking there.

It was two different dogs. They both alerted, one to blood and the other to a cadaver.

We don't know whose blood/body it was.

But it is difficult to believe that two dogs could have independently alerted incorrectly in the same place.

Really Satan you must have missed my many posts saying the same thing, and requesting people send private messages instead

Thank you to everyone who has done so - I hope I've replied to all of you, there have been a lot and it's taken most of the afternoon, but good to talk to you all

Nobody has made 'vile' insinuations against the McCanns - in the main they have said that the published data from the Portuguese police does not tally with the story our Press has been telling us.

Well, we can believe that the Portuguese are totally incompetent and that our Press are saintly upholders of the truth, but both of those are extreme positions, which I personally don't hold.

I have a theory.......perhaps I can get it shared on websites and read by credulous ghouls?

My theory is that the police have set the whole thing up with the dig because they feel so guilty that they've been eating tapas for the last 7 years instead of being where they should have been.
I think you'll find my theory explains all of the confusing circumstances AND has the added benefit that we can all feel bloody smug.

I will be setting up a blog with this theory shortly. Of course I will have to go back to school to unlearn how to write in coherent sentences first.

I certainly get the impression that Scotland Yard have had a few nice jollies to Portugal in the last few months.

What about the string of attacks on young girls in holiday villas which occurred during the same period in the same area?

Strangely there are no records of these assaults being reported to police, and only British children seem to have been targeted - no Portuguese, Dutch, German, Spanish

I live in one of the villages mentioned and am in contact with lots of tourists every year and have not heard of one - even out local GNR chief was interviewed on tv and didn't know anything about it - all very strange

It is all too sad for words - and I agree that this thread is not helping anybody.

It's very easy to ignore it if you're not interested in discussing the case - it's not for everyone but it's very close to home for me

They don't seem concrete cases People coming forward years later when it was so high profile. I don't think any children were taken. It does seem that both police forces are looking at another scenario now as Dye approached Portugal to do this dig so they must be thinking differently bringing it back to the scene. Crime watch seemed more focused on her maybe being in another country but that doesn't seem the case now

Can't blame them LaVolcan it's a beautiful country and the weather at the moment is fantastic

Yes, costa, a policeman's lot is not a happy one!

Who has said that Sabrina?

And there was everyone being nice and discussing specifics privately - I hope your post doesn't get the thread pulled Sabrina or was that the intention?

Funny thing about those other incidents. One could argue that the fact that Portugese police are said to have 'no record' says less about the veracity of the incidents and rather more about the practice of the local police? The same police whose integrity appears to hang on poorly translated internet 'files' and not on a successful prosecution.

You could MrsMaturin but you'd be wrong and potentially libelling a foreign police force - I don't think that's very wise on an open forum - if I were you I'd report my post and ask for it to be deleted just in case

I need to get my head out from kids tv, I haven't seen a thing about this.