Maddy: police want to quiz more suspects - 28/8/14

Tomorrows Express....

This was the tweet from Jerry Lawton earlier today re this news.


Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton  · 6 mins  
Brit police hunting Madeleine #McCann send 5th letter requesting help from Portuguese. Met officers plan to return to Portugal next month

Story in Express - here is link..........

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/504070/British-Maddy-police-new-Portuguese-plea




British police investigating Madeleine McCann disappearance want to quiz more suspects

BRITISH police probing the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have formally asked Portuguese authorities for more help, it was revealed yesterday.

By: John Chapman
Published: Thu, August 28, 2014

A new international letter of request has been received from Scotland Yard, Portugal’s Attorney General’s Office confirmed.
The news comes as Operation Grange officers prepare for a further trip to the Algarve next month.
Officials have declined to comment on the content of the latest letter of request.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman also refused to comment on details of the “fourth request” which was made earlier this month.
But it is thought that British officers want to question suspects in Portugal.


But it is thought that British officers want to question suspects in Portugal.

It was not clear last night if public prosecutors on the Algarve coordinating the separate Portuguese inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance on May 3, 2007, have yet approved the Yard’s call.

The investigation is still ongoing and we will not be reducing the team
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Scotland Yard chief

Previous requests sparked digs at three sites in and around the Praia da Luz resort where Madeleine vanished on a family holiday.

And four men were interviewed as “arguidos” – normally translated as “formal suspects” – in July.

Only one of them is understood to have had his arguido status removed.

British police questioned them through Portuguese colleagues in the hope of confirming their theory that they were part of a burglary gang who panicked after killing Madeleine during a bungled break-in at her family’s holiday apartment and dumped her body.

But all four men insisted they had nothing to do with her disappearance and were released without charge.
A string of witnesses were also quizzed at Faro police station.

Sniffer dogs loaned by South Wales police and used in June to search waste ground in Praia da Luz in a fruitless hunt for clues to her whereabouts are subsequently thought to have swept the car of one of the suspects’ relatives.
Portuguese police have privately dismissed the latest British police work as “senseless.”
They believe Madeleine was snatched by a foreigner no longer in Portugal.
They have still not ruled out the involvement of ex-junkie burglar drug addict Euclides Monteiro who died in a tractor accident in 2009, three years after being sacked by the holiday club where the British youngster and her parents were staying.
His widow says he had nothing to do with the disappearance, however.
Madeleine was three when she vanished from Praia da Luz.
The Yard launched Operation Grange in May 2011 after her parents Gerry, 45, and Kate, 46, of Rothley, Leics, appealed to David Cameron for help.
Around 40 detectives and civilian staff are dedicated to the inquiry which has so far cost an estimated £6million.
Yard chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said recently: “The investigation is still ongoing and we will not be reducing the team.”
Gerry and Kate say they are encouraged by the lack of evidence to suggest Madeleine was murdered.

They are convinced their daughter could still be alive and will one day be returned to them.
Scotland Yard is offering £20,000 as a reward for information.

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Gerry and Kate say they are encouraged by the lack of evidence to suggest Madeleine was murdered.
So not dead, but murdered. A big difference.
I really do hope that all this interviewing everyone and his uncle is to scrape right down to the bone.

Lorraine wrote:Snipped

Gerry and Kate say they are encouraged by the lack of evidence to suggest Madeleine was murdered.
So not dead, but murdered. A big difference.
I really do hope that all this interviewing everyone and his uncle is to scrape right down to the bone.

***
So do I. I do have faith in 38-ish weathered detectives.
And once they get to the bones, they still may have a lot of just circumstantial evidence. But then again: a LOT. With the exclusion of many, if not all other possibilities.

Conviction wrote:

Lorraine wrote:Snipped

Gerry and Kate say they are encouraged by the lack of evidence to suggest Madeleine was murdered.
So not dead, but murdered. A big difference.
I really do hope that all this interviewing everyone and his uncle is to scrape right down to the bone.

***
So do I. I do have faith in 38-ish weathered detectives.
And once they get to the bones, they still may have a lot of just circumstantial evidence. But then again: a LOT. With the exclusion of many, if not all other possibilities.

This case, if anyone, I repeat anyone, is charged and appears in a court of law. The evidence will have to be 100%.

Dear Lorrain: For one, one has to consider, which court this would be. Portugal or United Kingdom?
In Portugal the case would be before one [up to three, if I'm not mistaken] "professionals", read judges. In the U.K. it would before a jury of peers. With all of the circumstantial evidence, lies, changing lies [compare first and last statements/interviews - their present story hardly resembles the original one from 7 years ago], all sort of incoherancies & the dog findings [which were for me the real turning point] a jury of peers might be influenced by 7 years of tabloid brainwashing. A judge would not.
I have faith in NSY and PJ [and CPS]. If ever they bring this to court, they'll have all of the arguments. And the dogs have been instrumental to quite couple of other cases.

Conviction wrote:Dear Lorrain: For one, one has to consider, which court this would be. Portugal or United Kingdom?
In Portugal the case would be before one [up to three, if I'm not mistaken] "professionals", read judges. In the U.K. it would before a jury of peers. With all of the circumstantial evidence, lies, changing lies [compare first and last statements/interviews - their present story hardly resembles the original one from 7 years ago], all sort of incoherancies  & the dog findings [which were for me the real turning point] a jury of peers might be influenced by 7 years of tabloid brainwashing. A judge would not.
I have faith in NSY and PJ [and CPS]. If ever they bring this to court, they'll have all of the arguments. And the dogs have been instrumental to quite  couple of other cases.

I agree, absolutely. However this a very high profile case and has had all manner of unprecidented support so where ever it is tried, and my feelings are the case will be in Portugal, eveything else the UK. Well it has to be without any chance of finding a t which hasn't been crossed, and as for the i dots, well ...............................................................................................................

IMO this case could be tried in PT re the missing child. PJ must have substantial evidence of some sorts to re-open the case ...

If there's substantial evidence, that "they" knew what happened, or at least that poor Madeleine is dead [which seems to be the case], the UK can step in with a fraud case, viz. the "Fund" asking for donations to find their child, whilst they know know she's dead ...

Conviction wrote:IMO this case could be tried in PT re the missing child. PJ must have substantial evidence of some sorts to re-open the case ...

If there's substantial evidence, that "they" knew what happened, or at least that poor Madeleine is dead [which seems to be the case], the UK can step in with a fraud case, viz. the "Fund" asking for donations to find their child, whilst they know know she's dead ...

Exactly.

There's nothing to suggest that the dog's search was fruitless, Scotland Yard stated that "no evidence relating to Madeleine McCann has been identified"

Why the use of the term 'identified' and not 'found' - words are so important and the Met knows how to choose theirs carefully, and I prefer to pay attention to the actual words used by them, rather than the ramblings of the MSM.

I think it's plausible to theorise that they could have found substances of interest (cadaverine?) in the wasteland, and are waiting on DNA tests to identify the owner. A fact I don't think they would make public until theircase is watertight.

Exactly. They do know how to chose their words. I gather, they also use the word "abduction" in the original Latin meaning: taking away.