tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post8921516008594066452..comments2023-10-30T07:28:35.018+00:00Comments on Textusa: Brenda's DayTextusahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-20666857886860337952015-03-25T20:52:14.587+00:002015-03-25T20:52:14.587+00:00I've just read Blackwell. Seems Jones certainl...I've just read Blackwell. Seems Jones certainly did have his doubts - so not so stupid. I've only ever read his more fawning accounts. Why don't these muppets just come out and write some serious investigative journalism? Jones writes like a manacled cartoon ghost - howling in the dark. Shutters and Creche Man, indeed! Those early doubts have transmorphed into certainties, I'd say. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-58157117856266678172015-03-25T11:43:18.735+00:002015-03-25T11:43:18.735+00:00Anonymous 24 Mar 2015, 12:59:00 Yes, as follows : ...Anonymous 24 Mar 2015, 12:59:00 Yes, as follows : <br /><br /> ' If we do not have the wind in our sails we have to row' :) <br /><br />Gonçalo Amaral has set the perfect example being persistent, consistent and coherent. His phrase "The McCanns knew that I was going to get them" is encouraging. <br /><br />Fortunately we have plenty of time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-65011491043811378872015-03-25T11:36:10.091+00:002015-03-25T11:36:10.091+00:00It might be a good idea to have DCI Nichola Wall t...It might be a good idea to have DCI Nichola Wall to interview a certain CM on the record as part of "Operation Grange,stranger Abductor/ion" perhaps he could explain as to why two former arquidos, who were supposedly not to discuss anything to do with the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, had a secret Tryst meeting at a designated hotel in July 2007 with the Tapas group, at which he was present? "it was just a group of friends who were meeting up as they had not seen each other since their holiday" where upon their daughter had disappeared,but nothing of any value was taken? Astounding eh!,<br />Perhaps DCI Wall interview the provider of "disturbing abuse"directed to Kate and Gerry,family in her disclosure to Martin Brunt,Sky news interview,Big Jim Gamble?<br />Is this person a relative of the McCann family,if so it is becoming murkier and very disturbing,Cyber bullying?<br />Six months since "Leicester Police" Force given Twitter message's of insidious abuse directed to sweepyface,but no criminal charges brought yet,GCHQ have got to protect London you know, Mr.Tully(Prime Minister), "shot across the Bow"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-1474756145570124422015-03-25T09:20:02.261+00:002015-03-25T09:20:02.261+00:00The bra clasp: "By the quantity of DNA analyz...The bra clasp: "By the quantity of DNA analyzed and the analysis at 17 loci with unambiguous results, not to mention the fact that the results of the analysis were confirmed by the attribution of the Y haplotype to the defendant, it is possible to say that it has been judicially ascertained that Raffaele Sollecito’s DNA was present on the exhibit.”<br /><br />The knife: “...the consultant also did a statistical calculation with the purpose of determining the probability that the profile could belong to someone other than the victim Meredith Kercher. The calculation of the Random Match Probability came to one chance in 300 million billion.”<br /><br />It seems DNA is easier to collect and identify than in 5A. The defence even claimed the knife was contaminated in the lab! A bit like Kate’s trousers! This really shows how odd it was Maddie’s DNA was so hard to find.<br />"pointing out that DNA traces on the knife were analyzed six days after last handling Kercher's DNA, ruling out lab contamination "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-27588335530841828482015-03-24T23:03:17.185+00:002015-03-24T23:03:17.185+00:00News on the Knox case:
http://www.digitaljournal.c...News on the Knox case:<br />http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/crime/op-ed-finally-is-this-the-truth-about-amanda-knox/article/415955#ixzz3VF5TCYg8<br /><br />So many parallels with Maddie!! <br /><br />"staged break-ins are often attempts to divert attention from individuals who have access to the property concerned"<br /><br />"Aside from highlighting the near-impossible window entry point and the fact that nothing of any value was taken,"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-27477555997612508222015-03-24T21:36:15.883+00:002015-03-24T21:36:15.883+00:00This McCann saga is a cover up but because of the ...This McCann saga is a cover up but because of the media involvement, mega money involved and public interest, it will NEVER go away. Eventually the world will know the truth it will be documented worldwide exactly what happened finally the truth will be revealed. This is the legacy of lies and deceit the mccanns and tapas friends have left for their children and for their children's children. Just as the news is currently reporting from events of 40 years ago, and sending those guilty to prison, this is news and it will be heard. We now demand transparency in all cases, that is now the utmost priority TRANSPARENCY. we will know the answers and find the truth. Brenda Leyland did not die in vain, she spoke her mind and she should still be here, we live in a democracy of free speech, Brenda spoke for all of us, we want answers and we want the truth, no more lies or cover-ups and there but for the grace of God goes us, she wanted the truth but those who ask questions and are met with a wall of silence. Margaret Thatcher's brilliant career and legacy has now been blighted forever because she turned a blind eye on what was going on in her party , she knew, but did nothing, another cover-up now exposed 40 years later has ruined her reputation and tarnished it forever. Today far too many prominent people are involved in cover-ups and foolishly believe they are above the LAW BUT the truth will come out maybe in 10, 20 or 40 years time, who knows, but those that are guilty today will be named and shamed tomorrow and their families will feel the brunt and shame of their deceit. RIP Maddie you deserved so much more. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-38809005870577905222015-03-24T21:32:52.814+00:002015-03-24T21:32:52.814+00:00cont
The Daily Star accurately quoted Tully as sa...cont<br /><br />The Daily Star accurately quoted Tully as saying it was time to re-focus on what was needed to keep London safe. The Met no longer have the resources to conduct specialist inquiries all over the world, which have nothing to do with London.<br /><br />“The Met has long been seen as the last resort for investigations others have struggled with elsewhere. But we have made £600m of cuts. We have closed 63 police stations across London. Another £800m of cutbacks are anticipated over the next four years.”<br /><br />Tully went on to say: “It is surprising to see an inquiry like the McCann investigation ring-fenced. I have heard a few rumblings of discontent about it from lots of sources. When the force is facing a spike in murder investigations it is not surprising there is resentment of significant resources diverted to a case that has no apparent connection with London.”<br /><br />Officers in London are said to be “bemused” why they are working round-the-clock solving murders and fighting the threat from Islamic State-inspired jihadists while the Operation Grange detectives are barred from helping.<br /><br />Meanwhile, to the bemusement of many people in Portugal and almost eight years after she went missing, the search for Madeleine goes on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-70378901622179151142015-03-24T21:32:40.224+00:002015-03-24T21:32:40.224+00:00Yesterday invited to compare its cost with that of...Yesterday invited to compare its cost with that of other missing persons inquires the met said this was not possible because each case was individual and Madeline disappearance was c clearly a unique and complexAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-40612874627744750922015-03-24T21:32:25.964+00:002015-03-24T21:32:25.964+00:00http://portuguese-american-journal.com/hunt-goes-o...http://portuguese-american-journal.com/hunt-goes-on-is-the-madeleine-mccann-case-to-be-shelved-update/<br /><br />Hunt goes on: Is the Madeleine McCann case to be shelved? – Update<br /><br />Posted on 23 March 2015.<br />By Len Port, Contributor(*)<br /><br />The chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, John Tully, is concerned about the Operation Grange investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann but, contrary to press reports, he has not called for the investigation to be closed.<br /><br />What is in question is the scale of the operation in the light of severe budget cuts and other demands on the Met. But there is no indication that the investigation is to be terminated.<br /><br />The Daily Star sparked confusion and a flurry of speculation with an “exclusive” under the headline: “Police urged to shelve Maddie hunt as cops needed in UK to battle terrorism.”<br /><br />The headline inferred it, but the story did not quote Tully or anyone else as saying the investigation should be shelved.<br /><br />Following up on the Star story the next day, the Daily Mail Online reported that Tully had called for the probe to be axed.<br /><br />The Leicester Mercury, the regional paper where Kate and Gerry McCann live, did not mince its words either: “A police union boss has called for London officers to give up the search for Madeleine McCann.”<br /><br />Other papers, both in the UK and Portugal, churned out the latest fabrication in a mystery that has become a deep-rooted international obsession.<br /><br />Asked by Portugal Newswatch about what he actually said to the press, the federation chairman was adamant:<br /><br />“At no time did I suggest that operation Grange should be closed.”<br /><br />What Tully was getting at when speaking with the Daily Star was the wisdom of devoting a team of detectives exclusively to the investigation of a crime that had nothing to do with London.<br /><br />He said he made his comments “in the light of the force having to save £1.4 billion from the budget.”<br /><br />He added: “The pressure of work and expectation placed on officers, including the unacceptable situation where other officers are carrying in excess of 30 live investigations, is also an important consideration in these circumstances.”<br /><br />The Metropolitan Police press bureau confirmed there are currently 31 officers working on Operation Grange and that “their sole investigation is the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.”<br /><br />For now at least, the search for any scrap of solid evidence goes on. DCI Nicola Wall, who took over as head of Operation Grange at the end of last year, was reported in the UK and Portugal media as visiting Lisbon last week to “strengthen links” and for “detailed discussions” with Portuguese prosecutors.<br /><br />The Week magazine described the talks as “crucial” and said they were designed to “work out next steps” in the investigation. The magazine went on to quote a statement from Kate and Jerry McCann: “It’s very apparent that the determination of the Metropolitan Police remains steadfast.”<br /><br />Originally requested by Home Secretary Theresa May with the backing of Prime Minister David Cameron, the Met investigation has been ongoing for almost four years at the reported cost to British taxpayers of £10 million.<br /><br />There are no indications that the Met are any nearer to solving the mystery. It is not at all clear where the operation is at, or where it is going. All the Met’s press office will say is that “we are not prepared to give a running commentary on this investigation.”<br /><br />Frustration over the lack of progress is palpable.<br /><br />contAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-3043661249659006892015-03-24T21:17:49.233+00:002015-03-24T21:17:49.233+00:00David Jones has been an obsequious useful-idiot to...David Jones has been an obsequious useful-idiot to the abduction theory from the start. But he's not a stupid man. I've always maintained that people like Jones - won't call them 'journalists', must have had their doubts about the McCanns from very early on in the case. <br /><br />I've never seen these useful-idiot types as part of any wider conspiracy, however - they're just my mother-in-law in other guises. <br /><br />This latest piece of sentimental drivel (disguised as hard-nosed yet compassionate objectivity) from Jones shows that he was hoodwinked by the couple - he fell for their story because he wanted to believe it. He mentions his grandchildren - about the same age as Madeleine when she went missing and 'just as cherubic'. Yes, mother.<br /><br />But he's not stupid. Or is he? <br /><br />The article begins with the discredited McCann stories of May 4th.The shutters, the geezer walking with a child in PDR. Stories discredited by 2 groups of detectives. Stories begging further questions (relating to dogs and dicrepancies for example). Questions that will never go away, regardless of whether the Met plods decide to bin their all-expenses shin-digs in Portugal.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-86367369554323932762015-03-24T17:07:10.672+00:002015-03-24T17:07:10.672+00:00This report is so fawning of the Mc Canns and damn...This report is so fawning of the Mc Canns and damning of Operation Grange (trips that somehow require them to stay in four and even five-star hotels with spas and golf concessions? ). <br />At least SY respond that the investigation is funded by the Home office and that it ‘does not impact on our other operations in London’.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-52470958147210219772015-03-24T15:06:56.845+00:002015-03-24T15:06:56.845+00:00(Daily Mail cont.)
Mercifully, as matters stand, ...(Daily Mail cont.)<br /><br />Mercifully, as matters stand, just 131 unsolved missing children cases (including Madeleine’s) are listed on the website Missing Kids UK, which is run by the Child Exploitation And Online Protection Centre — the national law enforcement agency which protects Britain’s minors.<br /><br />On the website, one finds many forgotten children whose anguished parents would doubtless walk barefoot across hot coals if it meant their disappearance would receive the same microscopic attention as Madeleine’s.<br /><br />It goes without saying that none of this is any fault of the McCanns.<br /><br />To the contrary, via Kate’s best-selling book and the couple’s countless public appearances, during which they are always eager to look beyond their own loss, and by promoting innovative methods of prevention and detection, no one has done more to raise public awareness of missing children. They have become unofficial global ambassadors for the cause.<br /><br />It is to their eternal credit that they have remained so resolutely optimistic, re-stating at every opportunity their unswerving belief that somehow, one day, their daughter will come back to them.<br /><br />They always speak about Madeleine — whose 12th birthday falls this May — in the present tense, and in their Leicestershire home they continue to maintain her pink bedroom, crammed with teddy bears, rosary beads and other gifts from wellwishers. There is also a special keepsake box into which her siblings, twins Sean and Amelie, now ten, put mementoes for her for when she returns.<br /><br />Last week, reportedly responding to Mr Tully’s remarks through friends, they remained typically upbeat, expressing their gratitude to the Operation Grange team and insisting there was ‘still a job of work to be done’. If I were them, I would say exactly the same.<br /><br />Regrettably, however, after eight years of false dawns, wrongly accused suspects, and epic wild-goose chases (one of which saw me spend days on the trail of a blonde-haired girl sighted with an Arab woman in northern Morocco), I have come to the same conclusion as John Tully: enough is enough. A great many people in Praia da Luz, as I have discovered, feel the same way.<br /><br />From the moment Madeleine was taken, they have behaved with commendable dignity and shown enormous compassion towards her family, even though the reputation of their once-blameless resort has been irreparably sullied and the tourism industry that supported their livelihood has suffered a mortal blow. (The Mark Warner holiday firm through which they booked their ill-fated trip has dropped the town from its destinations.)<br /><br />Surely now it is time to spare a thought for their wishes? Surely it is time to stop treating their town as one big crime scene, to be forensically re-examined and excavated, and allow them to try to get back to some semblance of normality?<br /><br />Surely, too, it is time to call a halt on the to-ing and fro-ing of British detectives to this agreeable part of the continent — trips that somehow require them to stay in four and even five-star hotels with spas and golf concessions? Yesterday, invited to compare its scale and cost with that of other missing person inquiries, the Met said this was not possible because each case was individual, and Madeleine’s disappearance was ‘clearly a unique and complex case’.<br /><br />In response to Mr Tully’s remarks, the Met said the investigation had commenced at the request of the Home Office, which fully funds it, adding that it ‘does not impact on our other operations in London’.<br /><br />They admitted that no arrests had been made since the operation began, but declined to describe any progress they may have made.<br /><br />It should be stressed that I am not arguing for a minute that we ought to forget about Madeleine, or cease to be vigilant. And, of course, the police must investigate any genuinely promising new leads, should they emerge.<br /><br />I simply believe, with the best of intentions, that it is time to put sentiment aside, face up to the harsh financial realities of modern policing, and regard Madeleine McCann in the same manner as all those other missing children.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-11093879442275287642015-03-24T15:04:32.353+00:002015-03-24T15:04:32.353+00:00(Daily Mail cont.)
If, God forbid, I was in their...(Daily Mail cont.)<br /><br />If, God forbid, I was in their shoes, I would want, demand and plead that everything humanly possible must be done to find a member of my family; or, at the very least, to discover what became of them.<br /><br />I would gladly swing for any policeman or Home Office mandarin who presumed to evaluate the chances of finding them in the cold terms of cost-effectiveness. I would insist that the search must go on: indefinitely, and whatever the price.<br /><br />Like Kate and Gerry McCann, perhaps I would cling to miracles, too.<br /><br />I would remind people how a woman called Jaycee Lee Dugard was found safe in California, fully 18 years after being abducted by a sex offender and given up for dead.<br /><br />And how, only last month in South Africa, a girl called Zephany Nurse was reunited with her overjoyed parents 17 years after being plucked from her sleeping mother’s arms in a maternity hospital, when she was three days old.<br /><br />The sad truth is, however, that when we examine such exceptional cases, they do little to support the argument for a hugely expensive and protracted police investigation.<br /><br />Jaycee’s deranged kidnapper, Phillip Craig Garrido, virtually shopped himself to the FBI by presenting them with a rambling essay purporting to offer a cure for sexual predators, and later parading her and another of his victims at a university campus lecture.<br /><br />The salvation of Zephany, whose mother Celeste has urged the McCanns to continue praying as she did, and ‘never give up’, owed still more to happenstance. Her identity was discovered after she was unwittingly enrolled at the same school as her sister, and fellow pupils noticed their extraordinarily similar looks.<br /><br />But leaving aside, for a moment, the remote likelihood that the Operation Grange team might unearth some crucial piece of evidence at this late stage, it seems only fair to compare the ‘no stone unturned’ investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance with that of the many other British children who go missing.<br /><br />Children who, it must be said, vanish without a publicity blitz to draw attention to their plight, without their parents being received by statesmen and religious leaders including the Pope, and without celebrities offering enticing rewards for their return.<br /><br />Recent figures show that a staggering 160,000 such children are reported missing in the UK each year — one every three minutes. In the vast majority of cases they are quickly reunited with their parents. Nine out of ten cases are closed within 48 hours, and 99 per cent are solved in under a year.<br /><br />Under protocol set down by the Association of Chief Police Officers, those who are not found promptly are categorised according to the degree of jeopardy their disappearance is perceived to place them in.<br /><br />Those deemed to be ‘high risk’ are judged either to be vulnerable, in danger of harming themselves or others, or falling victim to serious crime. Those at medium risk are thought ‘likely’ to be in danger, and those at low risk are judged to be safe.<br /><br />So how much time and money might you expect the police to invest in searching for one ‘medium risk’ child? According to a recent study by Portsmouth University’s Centre For Missing Persons, the amount is astonishingly low: between £1,325 and £2,415.<br /><br />Compared with the millions poured into the search for Madeleine, this figure — which covers such basic procedures as taking an initial call, risk assessment, obtaining a photograph of the child, undertaking a house search, and a police national computer check — is derisory indeed.<br /><br />(cont.)Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-14627348065930788742015-03-24T15:02:58.235+00:002015-03-24T15:02:58.235+00:00(Daily Mail cont.)
But almost four years and an e...(Daily Mail cont.)<br /><br />But almost four years and an eye-watering £10million of taxpayers’ money later — an amount that would pay the annual wages of countless PCs — it is patently obvious his intervention is not producing results.<br /><br />Though a huge number of man-hours have been spent re-examining the 5,000-page Portuguese judicial dossier in the hope that it might contain a vital missed clue, though great swathes of wasteland in Praia da Luz were explored with sophisticated gadgetry last year, and a plethora of suspects re-interviewed, there has been no sign of a breakthrough.<br /><br />Despite the lack of progress, 31 Met police staff — detectives and civilians — were still working solely on the investigation this week, at a time when the Yard’s budget is being slashed by £600million over four years, with further cuts to come, and the threat of Islamic terrorism is stretching its resources to breaking point.<br /><br />Occupying a large office at New Scotland Yard, the Met’s ‘Madeleine Squad’ have spent four years painstakingly re-examining the botched Portuguese investigation. They have been to Portugal no fewer than 33 times — yet still apparently drawn a blank.<br /><br />You cannot fault their thoroughness. Portuguese officers found hundreds of hair strands in the McCanns’ holiday apartment. Some were never tested for DNA; others were checked but the results were patchy. The Operation Grange team want permission to carry out fresh DNA tests on them, together with the curtains that were hanging in the apartment.<br /><br />Meanwhile, every witness statement and tip-off is being re-checked, every theory considered, no matter how unlikely.<br /><br />This led, late last year in Portugal, to the questioning of 11 possibly key witnesses, among them Robert Murat, the British expat who won a huge sum in libel damages after wrongly being named as a suspect by the Portuguese police in the early stages of the hunt for Madeleine.<br /><br />And only a few days ago, Detective Chief Inspector Nicola Wall — the newly installed head of Operation Grange — flew to Lisbon with a small team of officers for a private meeting with the authorities.<br /><br />Each such development raises fresh hopes and excites the media, but so far they have all come to nothing. And one had to ask whether DCI Andy Redwood, who had set up the inquiry and had overseen it enthusiastically for four years, would have recently stood down had he been on the brink of solving the biggest case of his career.<br /><br />All of which goes to explain why the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation has now suggested that it might be time to pull the plug on Operation Grange.<br /><br />Expressing the private concerns of many of the union’s 30,000 member officers, John Tully said: ‘It’s time to re-focus on what we need to do to keep London safe. We no longer have the resources to conduct specialist inquiries all over the world which have nothing to do with London.<br /><br />‘The Met has long been seen as the last resort for investigations others have struggled with elsewhere. It is surprising to see an inquiry like the McCann investigation ring-fenced. I’ve heard a few rumblings of discontent about it from lots of sources.’<br /><br />He added: ‘When the force is facing a spike in murder investigations, it’s not surprising there is resentment of significant resources diverted to a case that has no apparent connection to London.’<br /><br />Mr Tully’s remarks have inevitably sparked heated debate. One side insists that the investigation must continue at any cost, while friends of the McCanns have reportedly accused him of speaking out of turn and citing the case to peddle the Federation’s agenda.<br /><br />But many have praised him for having the courage to voice the unsayable truth. With a very heavy heart, I must say I agree with them.<br /><br />As the grandfather of three children who are roughly the same age as Madeleine when she was taken, and similarly cherubic, I dread to imagine how it must feel to be living in purgatory like the McCanns.<br /><br />(cont.)Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-4853539698317015772015-03-24T14:59:14.370+00:002015-03-24T14:59:14.370+00:00We have decided to bring over to the blog the cont...We have decided to bring over to the blog the content of yesterday's Daily Mail article about the Maddie case, which we deem interesting:<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3008479/Yes-s-time-stopped-looking-Maddie-police-boss-says-10m-hunt-end-DAVID-JONES-s-reported-case-eight-years-explains-heavy-heart-agrees.html<br /><br />Yes, it's time we stopped looking for Maddie: As a police boss says the £10m hunt must end, DAVID JONES, who's reported on the case for eight years, explains with a heavy heart why he agrees<br /><br />- Police chiefs have been urged to wind up the hunt for Madeleine McCann<br /><br />- Metropolitan Police Federation chairman John Tulley called for a 're-focus'<br /><br />- He said: ‘It's time to re-focus on what we need to do to keep London safe'<br /><br />- Maddie vanished from apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal eight years ago<br /><br />- Met Police has spent £10m in hunt for her but no arrests have been made<br /><br />By David Jones for the Daily Mail<br /><br />Published: 23:31 GMT, 23 March 2015 | Updated: 08:49 GMT, 24 March 2015<br /><br /> <br /><br />Not long ago, seized by the compulsion to follow up yet another supposedly promising new lead in the Madeleine McCann case, I returned to Praia da Luz, the conspiratorial little resort that will be forever associated with her name.<br /><br />Having reported on her story from the earliest days after her disappearance, investigating innumerable twists and turns, I have beaten the tortuous path to that craggy tip of the Algarve more times than I care to remember.<br /><br />Yet revisiting some of its now-fabled landmarks — apartment 5A at the Ocean Club holiday resort, the white-washed chapel where Kate and Gerry would pray for deliverance — it struck me how precious little we have learned about her fate.<br /><br />Look back at the newspapers of May 4, 2007, the day after Madeleine vanished, and you will read of a ‘gorgeous, active, chatty and intelligent’ little girl, a few days shy of her fourth birthday, who appeared to have been snatched from her bed while her parents dined with friends at a tapas bar a few dozen yards away.<br /><br />You will read how the child’s abduction was discovered by her mother when she went to check on her at around 10pm; how she found a window was ajar, and ran back to the restaurant in hysterics to raise the alarm; and how witnesses later saw a child being carried off through the darkened streets.<br /><br />Fast forward eight years, and that, with the addition of a few marginally relevant details, remains the full extent of our knowledge.<br /><br />We have no more idea what became of Madeleine now than we did then. It is almost as if time has stood still.<br /><br />Given the enduring global obsession with the case, we might think this quite extraordinary. As of today, the Daily Mail’s archive contains 11,450 stories about Madeleine. Googling her name, I found no less than 1,290,000 references — five times more than you get by tapping in ‘Madonna’ — and the number soars higher with each passing day. The public’s fascination has been matched by the exorbitant amount of time and money spent on trying to solve the mystery.<br /><br />First we had a series of Portuguese police investigations, the ineptitude of which is well documented.<br /><br />Next came a procession of private detectives (including a self-proclaimed Spanish super-sleuth, expensively hired by the McCanns in December 2007, who blithely promised to have Madeleine home for Christmas).<br /><br />Then, in 2011, at the behest of David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May, Scotland Yard’s finest were called in to clear up the mess.<br /><br />At least, that was the Prime Minister’s hope, and perhaps his expectation, when — apparently moved by a personal appeal from the McCanns — he ordered a team of Met detectives to be removed from their other duties and assigned to the case, codenamed Operation Grange.<br /><br />(cont.)Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-13552806855745733192015-03-24T14:47:30.820+00:002015-03-24T14:47:30.820+00:00Hi Textusa my post 12.59, I must point out that I...Hi Textusa my post 12.59, I must point out that I said Hamish Campbell now retired from the Metropolitan Police in January 2014, is no longer connected to Operation Grange, he did have involvement into murder investigations where convictions were overturned on appeal!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-31088389851483303432015-03-24T12:59:35.514+00:002015-03-24T12:59:35.514+00:00Anonymous post of 09.29,10.08,11.37, It is just th...Anonymous post of 09.29,10.08,11.37, It is just that,we the public don't have control of the establishment, the Government do!? <br />But have they the gumption to see this to it's proper conclusion?<br />David Jones article, makes no reference to the trained surveillance dogs,Eddie and Keela or how the cadaver on a parents article of clothing."Ask the Dogs,Sandra", then David Jones states the PJ as inept?<br />Scotland Yards Finest,DCI Redwood,Hamish Campbell(Barry George,framed,Daniel Morgan found dead 10 March 1987?) Now do not forget who is DCI Nichola Wall's Boss,HC?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-5207697977633712362015-03-24T11:37:22.045+00:002015-03-24T11:37:22.045+00:00The endless efforts by the establishment to cut of...The endless efforts by the establishment to cut off the life of this saga, to make it foolproof, is obvious. <br /><br />Never stop asking the questions, don't let the matter rest until we have answers for Maddie and Brenda. <br /><br />Don't let us leave any more space for the blatant lies of mccann. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-31970491961095342962015-03-24T10:16:07.944+00:002015-03-24T10:16:07.944+00:00I understand. Thx for the reply. I understand. Thx for the reply. sloganmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14863986821574734718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-69222782366429850032015-03-24T10:08:44.506+00:002015-03-24T10:08:44.506+00:00I was hoping that the recent reporting regarding r...I was hoping that the recent reporting regarding requests to stop money being spent on the Mc Cann investigation were part of another Swinging BH campaign to prevent the truth emerging. I still hope that they might be - but at the same time I am wondering if it is just part of a Government BH campaign in shaping public perception in order to shelve the case. Wondering what Textusa is thinking... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-57064763125878728842015-03-24T09:29:04.302+00:002015-03-24T09:29:04.302+00:00Big article in Mail : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/n...Big article in Mail : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3008479/Yes-s-time-stopped-looking-Maddie-police-boss-says-10m-hunt-end-DAVID-JONES-s-reported-case-eight-years-explains-heavy-heart-agrees.html<br /><br />Reinforces opinion to give up the search for Madeleine - Is this part of the propaganda to drop the case and move on? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-55188204173771939842015-03-23T23:13:14.738+00:002015-03-23T23:13:14.738+00:00Unpublished sloganman at 23 Mar 2015, 18:58:00
W...Unpublished sloganman at 23 Mar 2015, 18:58:00<br /><br />We are not publishing your comment because we don’t bring over to our blog what happens internally in other blogs and forums, unless posters there refer to issues we’re concerned with or currently handling.<br /><br />We trust readers there to judge for themselves how far each individual poster there may or not be from the truth and, about those who insistently are far from it, as to what reasons may there be for them to persevere in keeping such a distance.Textusahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06160632687242190030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-70885120096625006472015-03-23T22:46:56.099+00:002015-03-23T22:46:56.099+00:00I'm not sure why people can't see the evid...I'm not sure why people can't see the evidence before their eyes, namely the testimony of Brenda Leyland's son, which left us in no doubt about the terrible mental anguish felt by his mother after she was exposed by Sky.<br /><br />Her son was clearly in no doubt that his mother committed suicide, something that must have been incredibly painful for him to testify about, and yet people are prepared to ignore that harrowing evidence from a loving son about his equally loving mother, in order to pursue a much more sensationalist line about murder, for which there is no evidence whatsoever.<br /><br />Apart from the obvious lack of logic, such speculation can only add to the pain of Brenda Leyland's family and so I hope it stops.<br /><br />Nuala xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-32487110551810545912015-03-23T14:01:46.368+00:002015-03-23T14:01:46.368+00:00Hi Textusa, I have posted on Luz's Secret abou...Hi Textusa, I have posted on Luz's Secret about how "Powerful and Influence" MSM,Sky,Murdoch Empire has, Reference Death of PI Mr Daniel Morgan 10 March 1987!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6891574965172458848.post-37158420157066662572015-03-23T12:34:21.967+00:002015-03-23T12:34:21.967+00:00Hi textusa,perhaps DCI Nichola Wall can arrange fo...Hi textusa,perhaps DCI Nichola Wall can arrange for the PJ to come to UK and ask to go over the original statements form the Tapas 9,do a reconstruction as to the original process, as they may remember"crime watch"scenario, DCI Redwood's time management method?<br />Nah, the duty free is appalling in UK!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com