Madeleine McCann Missing-Praia Da Luz, Portugal 3/05/07 #2

[Toler]

Madeleine McCann: UK government lawyers in first visit to Portugal to discuss new leads
6/213

Metropolitan Police / Teri Blythe
 Top British government lawyers have travelled to Portugal to meet officials to discuss new leads in the Madeleine McCann investigation.
 
The trip is the first time that lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service have visited the country in connection with Scotland Yard’s £5 million review of the case.
 
Home Secretary Theresa May is now expected to announce a full-scale Yard investigation into the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine in May 2007.
 
London’s chief crown prosecutor Alison Saunders and her deputy Jenny Hopkins flew to Portugal in April to meet counterparts to discuss leads identified in the Met Police’s review.
 
It was revealed last month detectives had identified a list of potential suspects.
 
Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, who supervised the review, said there were a “good number” of people who should be questioned as well as “further forensic opportunities”.
 
The list is thought to number around 20, including Britons.
 
The potential suspects are thought to include known paedophiles who are believed to have been in the Algarve when Madeleine disappeared.
 
The visit by senior CPS lawyers underlines the belief among senior detectives that the case could be solved.
 
A CPS spokesperson said today: “Prosecutors from CPS London, and investigators from the MPS, visited their Portuguese counterparts on 17-18th April to discuss possible next steps in relation to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. We continue to work with the police on this case.”


Check out all the latest News, Sport & Celeb gossip at Mirror.co.uk http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-uk-government-lawyers-1975845#ixzz2WtT5ekjp
 Follow us: @DailyMirror on Twitter | DailyMirror on Facebook

[Sister]

I pray some day this precious child will be found.
 

[San]

Madeleine McCann: New leads spark Met formal inquiry

Madeleine McCann Madeleine was almost four years old when she disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment


    Madeleine McCann inquiry timeline
    'Madeleine at nine' image created
    McCanns call review 'huge step'

Scotland Yard says it has "new evidence and new theories" in the Madeleine McCann case as it opens a formal investigation into her disappearance.

The Met Police said it still believed there was a chance Madeleine was alive and was investigating 38 "persons of interest" after reviewing the evidence.

Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, said the shift from review to investigation was "a big step forward".

Madeleine was almost four when she disappeared in Portugal in 2007.

Portuguese authorities dropped their investigation in 2008.

New witnesses

 

Read More:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23179230#TWEET811257

[Toler]

Scotland Yard launches 'last chance' investigation into disappearance of Madeleine McCann as detectives identify 38 suspects
7/4/13

Police are convinced the three-year-old was abducted by a stranger
They have uncovered no evidence to suggest she has been murdered

Launching a new investigation, officers say 12 of suspects are from UK

 Parents Gerry and Kate McCann along with their travelling friends known as the 'Tapas Nine' are not suspects
 
The decision to launch a full criminal inquiry on foreign soil is with few precedents in the history of British policing

Suspects include Urs Hans von Aesch who abducted and killed five-year-old Ylenia Lenhard less than three months after Madeleine was taken

Von Aesch took his own life after killing his victim who looked like Madeleine   


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355651/Scotland-Yard-launches-chance-investigation-disappearance-Madeleine-McCann-detectives-identify-38-suspects.html#ixzz2Y5NiyQZB
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[Toler]

Millionaire child abuser and girlfriend accused of trying to extort £2.5m from missing Madeleine McCann's parents are arrested in Portugal hideout
7/5/13

A couple accused of trying to extort money from missing Madeleine McCann's parents have been arrested at a hideaway in Portugal.
 
Italian Danilo Chemello and his Portuguese girlfriend Aurora Pereira Vaz hit the headlines in 2007 after being seized in southern Spain over the alleged bid to get their hands on a £2.5 million reward offered for information on Madeleine's whereabouts.
 
The case never came to trial despite lurid reports about their past and the discovery of newspaper cuttings about Madeleine in their luxury home in Sotogrande, southern Spain.   


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2356762/Millionaire-child-abuser-girlfriend-accused-trying-extort-2-5m-missing-Madeleine-McCanns-parents-arrested-Portugal-hideout.html#ixzz2YBG4hB50
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[Toler]

Why SHOULD we help find Maddie, ask Portugal's police chiefs as they ridicule Scotland Yard claims of new leads on missing girl
7/5/13

Portugal's top lawyer yesterday poured scorn on Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
 

Attorney General Joana Marques Vidal said officers from London had no right to operate in Portugal and cannot question, interview or arrest anyone.

 
Her comments are in stark contrast to the Metropolitan Police’s upbeat announcement on Thursday of ‘genuinely new’ leads in the six-year-old case and that arrests could be made within weeks.
 

Detectives say they are preparing to swoop on 38 suspects – including 12 Britons – in Portugal and other parts of Europe.

 
Scotland Yard says it has asked the Crown Prosecution Service to submit an International Letter of Request to enable a team of officers to pursue inquiries in Portugal.

 
But Mrs Marques Vidal said she has received no British request for mutual legal assistance in an inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine – meaning the Met has no right to pursue inquiries.

 
Her spokesman said: ‘We have not received any request for mutual assistance with regard to the Madeleine McCann case.
 
He added that even if British police are allowed to travel to Portugal to ‘help the sovereign authorities’ carry out the ‘request for mutual assistance’, Met officers ‘cannot conduct any interviews or any other action in Portugal’.    


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357144/Madeleine-McCann-Why-SHOULD-help-missing-Maddie-ask-Portugals-police-chiefs.html#ixzz2YDveAwqj
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[Sister]

Why SHOULD we help find Maddie, ask Portugal's police chiefs as they ridicule Scotland Yard claims of new leads on missing girl
7/5/13

Portugal's top lawyer yesterday poured scorn on Scotland Yard’s investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
 

Attorney General Joana Marques Vidal said officers from London had no right to operate in Portugal and cannot question, interview or arrest anyone.

 
Her comments are in stark contrast to the Metropolitan Police’s upbeat announcement on Thursday of ‘genuinely new’ leads in the six-year-old case and that arrests could be made within weeks.
 

Detectives say they are preparing to swoop on 38 suspects – including 12 Britons – in Portugal and other parts of Europe.

 
Scotland Yard says it has asked the Crown Prosecution Service to submit an International Letter of Request to enable a team of officers to pursue inquiries in Portugal.

 
But Mrs Marques Vidal said she has received no British request for mutual legal assistance in an inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine – meaning the Met has no right to pursue inquiries.

 
Her spokesman said: ‘We have not received any request for mutual assistance with regard to the Madeleine McCann case.
 
He added that even if British police are allowed to travel to Portugal to ‘help the sovereign authorities’ carry out the ‘request for mutual assistance’, Met officers ‘cannot conduct any interviews or any other action in Portugal’.    


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357144/Madeleine-McCann-Why-SHOULD-help-missing-Maddie-ask-Portugals-police-chiefs.html#ixzz2YDveAwqj
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Good grief -- is it really all about fiefdom?
Lord help us all!

[Toler]

New Portuguese police team in Maddie hunt: Officers to quiz 30 'people of interest' including cab driver who may picked up toddler the night after she vanished
8/24/13

Police in Portugal have put together a new team of detectives to assist Scotland Yard in the hunt for Madeleine McCann.

 
They have been told to help officers from the Met and have been given a long list of people British police want them to interview about Madeleine’s disappearance in 2007 while on holiday with her parents in the Algarve.

 
None of the detectives involved in the shambolic initial Portuguese investigation is thought  to have been chosen.

 
The new team is expected to start work in the next few weeks.
 
It will question more than 30 ‘people of interest’, thought to include a taxi driver who thinks he may have picked up Madeleine, then aged three, the night after she vanished from her hotel while her parents were at a tapas bar 50 yards away. 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401553/New-Portuguese-police-team-Maddie-hunt-Officers-quiz-30-people-including-cab-driver-picked-toddler-night-vanished.html#ixzz2cwOGKFYt
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[trimmonthelake]

http://news.yahoo.com/mother-missing-british-girl-maddie-portugal-court-153647380.html
Mother of missing British girl Maddie in Portugal court

7 minutes ago

The mother of missing British girl Madeleine McCann was back in Portugal on Thursday for the start of libel proceedings against a detective who has written a book about the case.

"I'm here today for Madeleine... I'm here to stop the suffering of our family," said Kate McCann, as she left the Lisbon court where she and her husband Gerry are suing Goncalo Amaral for the book in which he argues Madeleine was killed accidentally and implicates the couple in her alleged 2007 death.

The McCanns have strongly denied the accusations and say the former inspector's claims have hampered the search for their daughter and exacerbated the anguish suffered by her relatives.

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Kate and Gerry McCann remain very confident that they will win the case.

"They have a strong case against Mr Amaral. The matter is now in the hands of their lawyer as it goes through court."
<snipped>

[cookie]

I hope the parents win!

[Toler]

The tidal wave of lies over Maddie: Tearful Kate McCann says detective's book added to my family's torment
9/13/13

Case: Kate McCann arrives at Lisbon's civil court today for the start of the family's libel action against Goncalo Amaral
 
Kate McCann wept in court yesterday as friends described her ‘utter despair’ in the days after her daughter Madeleine disappeared.
 
Mrs McCann, 45, brushed away tears as her family’s torment was played out on the first day of a libel trial against the Portuguese policeman who led the botched hunt for Madeleine.
 
Accusations by former detective Goncalo Amaral that Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry faked Madeleine’s abduction and then tried to make money from it engulfed the couple in a ‘massive tidal wave of lies’, their friends told the court.
 
Mrs McCann told friends she was ‘devastated’ by his book, in which he claimed Madeleine, then three, died in an accident in her family’s Algarve holiday apartment and the couple staged her disappearance to cover up their negligence – accusations the McCanns vehemently deny.
 
The couple, from Rothley, Leicestershire, launched £1million libel proceedings against Mr Amaral, who was sacked as the head of the investigation after he launched an outspoken attack on British police.    


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418426/Kate-McCann-says-detectives-book-added-familys-torment-arrives-Portuguese-trial.html#ixzz2eoVxkzLI
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[Toler]

‘Portugal is key to hunt for Madeleine,‘ says the McCann family's former detective
9/15/13


KATE and Gerry McCann’s former ­private investigator has told a court the secret of what happened to their missing daughter Madeleine lies in Portugal.
Retired detective Dave Edgar led the McCanns’ small team of investigators from 2008 until 2011 when Scotland Yard launched its review of the case.

Last week he spoke as a witness for the couple in their £1million libel action against former Portuguese police inspector Goncalo Amaral over his claims that Madeleine is dead.

Mr Edgar, 56, who spent 30 years with the Cheshire force and lives in Warrington, said: “My job was to lead the investigation to find Madeleine McCann and find out what happened to her.

“I discovered evidence and passed it to the British and Portuguese police. The answer to what happened to Madeleine lies in Portugal, so it is important to get information from the Portuguese public.”

Although the investigation was shelved by the Portuguese authorities in 2008 without the case being solved, Mr Edgar told the court at the Palace of Justice in Lis
bon that he continued to work closely with Portuguese officers for several years after the case was closed.    

Earlier film-maker Emma Loach, 40, told the court the book was “a tidal wave of lies” that had devastated the family. She became friends with them after making two films about the case. “If people believed Madeleine was dead they wouldn’t look for her,” she said.

The hearing ended abruptly on Friday when the judge, Maria Emilia Melo Castro, said she had to deal with a personal matter. It meant Kate’s mother Susan Healey was unable to give evidence. She will return to court this week. The case continues.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/429473/Portugal-is-key-to-hunt-for-Madeleine-says-the-McCann-family-s-former-detective

[cookie]

Thinking of u Madeleine. We have never given up hope of finding you.

[Toler]

Kate McCann came close to suicide after Portuguese former police chief unleashed a 'smear campaign' against her, reveals her psychologist
 9/19/13

Kate McCann contemplated suicide after a 'smear campaign' by a Portuguese police chief who claimed she had covered up daughter Madeleine's death, a libel trial heard today.
 
A British psychologist who counselled Mrs McCann revealed she confessed to secret 'dark thoughts' after disgraced detective Goncalo Amaral's shocking book was followed by a TV documentary based on it.
 
Alan Pike, a trauma expert who has been helping the McCanns since Madeleine's May 3 2007 disappearance on the Algarve, told a Lisbon court: 'Kate thought about not being around anymore.

'She referred to killing herself as an option to end the trauma she was experiencing.
 
'I deduced it was an indicator of how she felt rather that something she ever intended to do.
 
'Kate in particular wasn't very well and she shared with me some very dark thoughts which she hadn't done before.   

'She spent many days in tears sobbing about the injustice being done to Madeleine by the very people who ought to have been helping her,' Mr Pike told the court.
 
'There were times when she felt so incensed by Amaral and his friends, by which she meant his publishers, that she simply couldn't get through each day with the panic and the anguish she felt.
 
'These were things Kate told me when I spoke to her that she'd recorded in her diary in September 2008.' He added: 'I remember Kate being further devastated by the content of the film.
 
'The second traumatic reaction we have is sometimes more profound than the first one, more deep-seated, more entrenched and often more extreme.
 
'They can be more difficult reactions to deal with. When I spoke to the family about the film this is what I found.
 
'They were extremely angry and very disappointed and very frustrated.
 
'It was broadcast on TV in Portugal and the McCanns felt there was little or no chance of Madeleine ever being found in Portugal.'


Mr Pike, a partner at a trauma after-care centre based in Skipton, Yorkshire, said the McCanns viewed Mr Amaral's book as a 'gross breach of confidentiality' because it showed he had been speaking to publishers while he and colleagues claimed laws on secrecy prevented them from discussing the Madeleine case with the couple.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425551/Kate-McCann-came-close-suicide-Portuguese-police-chiefs-smear-campaign.html#ixzz2fMhSDREo
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[flamom]

I feel like this little girl is still alive......

[Toler]

'Anti-McCann' websites plotted to kidnap one of Madeleine's siblings 'to find out what they knew about her disappearance', court hears
9/20/13

Internet trolls fuelled by an ex police chief's claims about the McCanns incited conspiracy-theorists to plot to kidnap the couple's twins Sean and Amelie, a court heard today.
 
Goncalo Amaral's claims they faked daughter Madeleine's abduction to cover up her death in their Algarve holiday apartment was to blame for the threats, close family friend Michael Wright said.
 
Gerry and Kate McCann, 45, from Rothley, Leics, are suing the former Portuguese detective over his bombshell July 2008 book 'The Truth of the Lie.'


The couple have also launched £1 million libel proceedings at Lisbon's Palace of Justice against Mr Amaral's book publishers and a TV station which broadcast an April 2009 documentary based on his claims.
 
Mr Wright, husband of Kate McCann's cousin Anne-Marie, told the court the theories in Mr Amaral's book gave conspiracy theorists on anti-Mccann Internet forums 'focus' because he had been in charge of the botched investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.
 
He said: 'There were several examples of them inciting forum members to abduct one of the twins as they felt they would be able to throw some light on what may have happened.
 
'On one of the Internet forums, called The 3 Arguidos, there was an Internet conversation in great length where a member was suggesting that someone should abduct Sean or Amelie because they may be able to get information out of them that would confirm Mr Amaral's theories.'
 
Mr Wright, who helped monitor Internet activity on missing Madeleine for the couple, said he felt compelled to tell Gerry and he was interviewed by police from his home county of North Yorkshire after they decided detectives should be alerted.
 
He said the threats also made Gerry and Kate more vigilant about the use of the Internet by their twins, now eight.    


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426813/McCann-children-kidnap-plots-took-place-websites-accusing-Kate-Gerry.html#ixzz2fS3Lp311
 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

[cookie]

I feel like this little girl is still alive......

Me too.

[Nut44x4]

I don't, not from day one...

[cookie]

 

I don't, not from day one...

What do u think happened?

[Nut44x4]

Not sure 'why' I think that---perhaps it has to do with my pessimistic attitude, but I think the parents know exactly what happened...same with Jon Benet, imo.