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.

It's not that unusual for reconstructions to take place on the anniversary of an incident- so a year later. I imagine these things take time to get various permissions and to set up, so I don't think the time delay is at all surprising actually. Especially given that the McCann friends left for home just a day or two after the disappearance so a reconstruction would, by necessity, have involved getting them all to fly out again at the same time

Janey you say the friends flew out "a day or two after the event". Iirc that is simply untrue.

Justanother no one is saying that, you're being ridiculous.

Oh, when did the friends return home then? My understanding is that most of their group returned at the end of the week they had booked.

Oh give it a rest just 10 months later its not going to be as clear in your mind.

No, the friends stayed for longer than the "day or two after the disappearance" you have suggested Janey.

Can you answer my question then? When did all the members of the group return home?

Sabrina, as a latecomer to this thread, I'm amazed, amazed at the things you've gotten away with posting, as for calling other ghouls, well pot and kettle dear, pot and kettle.

What does it matter when they all went home? They could hardly just stay there indefinitely. They had lives and jobs to return to, they all had children.

At the time the PJ wanted to do this reconstruction, they were all under suspicion. I don't think I'd have gone back - their lawyers certainly advised them not to. And yes, they did need lawyers, it was pretty obvious that they were all being treated as suspects.

Ooh ssd - how nice to see you. I remember you from the other threads that were deleted. I namechecked you, love.

And so they should have been treated as suspects! A child does NOT just vanish into thin air. In most cases of missing children the closest people to them were involved.

God this is a bit like pulling teeth...
Some people were bleating about the fact that it was 10 months after the event that the pj called for a reconstruction. I pointed out that a) these things take time and various permissions to set up, and b) members of the group were flying home shortly after
People then say 'well of course they went back, they had jobs to go to...'

Yes. Precisely. It really isn't that surprising that the reconstruction was scheduled to take place months later. As I said earlier, many reconstructions in the UK take place a year after the event. But apparently that's ok because it's the good old British police force..

I think they were still interviewing them until the 16th of may so at least a couple of weeks before they left?

janey I don't know the exact time. I do know that they stayed to support the McCanns. You stated they all returned home a day or two after the disappearance. That is untrue.

janey posters are just providing the facts of the case and correcting lies/rumours and misunderstandings. You don't like that and get a bit tetchy. I wonder why?

lol at Sabrina " I name checked you love"

am scared now

They all stayed then? Everyone in the group needed for a reconstruction? Beyond the week that they were booked? Can you state where you got that information from?

Not tetchy at all btw. Just asking where it's stated that all of the holiday group stayed in Portugal well beyond their scheduled return date

Not quite the same thing because they used actresses, but it was only 6 days after the disappearance of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman that the staged a reconstruction. Id think that would be a better time frame if you are trying to jog peoples memories

What ssd said on previous threads made this thread look light-hearted.

They were all interviewed by the police, some several times. I also remember seeing photos of them in the resort, days after the disappearance. It's not rocket science to work out they didn't leave the day after the disappearance, like you stated.

Its all in the pj files what date the interviews took place, I have no idea if all of them were still there but you could go and read the interviews if you really want to know

Second interviews took place between the 10th and 16th

So when Kate McCann writes in her book about members of their holiday group returning home on their planned day... That's untrue is it?

Havan, excuse

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"I think they would have been advised not to go back, 10 months is a long time. They stayed in the country for how many months after it happened? You would have thought if it was that important to the case the police would have tried to arrange a reconstruction much earlier."

And

"And 10 months on id imagen it would be even harder to remember all the details"

So from this we can say unless the British police don't initiate a reconstruction within the 10 month period it is not important, or that if a reconstruction was to be produced after 10 months then it becomes here say ...

It was insinuated