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

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Portuguese police search for paedophile gang who 'may have snatched Madeleine McCann' as her case is reopened
 Police look for ring of five paedophiles who may have taken youngster
 Madeleine was snatched in 2007 from family's holiday apartment
 Portugal police have re-opened case five years after it was closed
10/24/13

Portuguese police are searching for a gang of five paedophiles they believe may have snatched missing youngster of Madeleine McCann.
 
The fresh circle of suspects were spotted near the apartment from where Madeleine, was snatched in 2007.

 
The new development comes after the country's authorities reopened their inquiry into the disappearance of the child, five years after they controversially shelved the investigation


Officers from Porto’s Policia Judiciaria believe foreign perverts kidnapped the three-year-old, who would now be 10, the Mirror reported.

The country’s attorney general authorised the new look into the case this week after ‘highly significant’ new evidence was identified by local detectives.
 
She said ‘new elements of evidence’ and new witnesses justified the continuation of the original investigation.
 

Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry, who were wrongly suspected of being responsible for their daughter’s disappearance during the shambolic first inquiry by Portuguese police, welcomed the news.

We are very pleased. We hope that this will finally lead to her being found and to the discovery of whoever is responsible for this crime,’ they said in a statement.

 
The new investigation will work with Scotland Yard’s multi-million-pound inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance, which was the subject of a major appeal on BBC1’s Crimewatch programme last week.

 
She was three when she disappeared from the McCanns’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve in May 2007.

 
Scotland Yard began a review of the case in May 2011 and opened a formal investigation in July this  year after identifying dozens of potential suspects and scores of new lines of inquiry.
 
Portuguese police said yesterday that their own review team had been working since March 2011 to reassess files from the original investigation and this process had uncovered new leads. A well-placed source told the Mail they could be ‘highly significant’.
    


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2476328/Madeleine-McCann-case-reopened-Portuguese-police-search-paedophile-gang.html#ixzz2ikKXR7Mp
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Fingers crossed

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Why were Maddie suspect E-fits kept secret for five years? Images and evidence of sighting uncovered by private detectives were suppressed

 Images of man seen carrying child through Praia da Luz on the night of Madeleine's disappearance were unveiled on Crimewatch two weeks ago
 Based on evidence from Irish holidaymaker Martin Smith and his family
 Emerged yesterday that E-fits were contained in files from five years ago
 Produced by private investigators hired by the McCanns
The E-fits of a ‘new’ suspect for Madeleine McCann’s disappearance were drawn up five years ago – and suppressed.

 
Images of a man seen carrying a child through Praia da Luz at 10pm on the night the then three-year-old vanished were unveiled on BBC1’s Crimewatch two weeks ago.


They are based on evidence from Irish holidaymaker Martin Smith and his family. At the same time, the British police team behind a new investigation revealed they had discounted a 9.15pm sighting of a man with a child by Jane Tanner, a friend holidaying with parents Gerry and Kate McCann and their three children.

 
It meant there was a new ‘timeline’ of Madeleine’s presumed abduction. Yet it emerged yesterday that the recently released E-fits were in fact contained in files produced five years ago by private investigators hired by the McCanns. Similarly, those private detectives had questioned the Tanner sighting and the timings associated with it.

 
But the E-fits were kept private, and the questioning of the Tanner sighting and related timeline were kept quiet. One detective said he was ‘utterly stunned’ to see his five-year-old dossier suddenly presented as new on TV.

 
The investigator told a Sunday newspaper: ‘I was absolutely stunned when I watched the programme... it most certainly wasn’t a new timeline and it certainly isn’t a new revelation. It is absolute nonsense to suggest either of those things... and those E-fits you saw on Crimewatch are ours.’

 
The McCanns are now fully behind the fresh police drive and release of the E-fits – but five years ago they were reluctant to issue them, possibly in part because witness Mr Smith’s account seemed inconsistent and unreliable.    


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http://www.news.com.au/world/cops-say-sacked-hotel-worker-who-died-four-years-ago-is-main-suspect-in-kidnapping-of-madeleine-mccann/story-fndir2ev-1226750092190

Cops say sacked hotel worker who died four years ago is main suspect in kidnapping of Madeleine McCann


    October 31, 2013

MADELEINE McCann's parents have rejected as 'pure speculation' reports that a vengeful ex-resort employee kidnapped their daughter.

Portuguese police believe the former employee at the Ocean Club Holiday hotel may be behind the infamous 2007 kidnapping - but the man died in a tractor accident in 2009 aged 40, reports Portuguese newspaper Correio de Manha.

Police ID’ed the former hotel worker as the key suspect after his mobile phone showed he was near the McCann’s holiday rental at the time of Maddie's disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann's media intermediary said: "We are aware of reports in the Portuguese press.

"They are pure speculation and the McCanns are not going to give a running commentary on every new report."

But Portuguese police appear to be taking the idea seriously.

 

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Madeleine McCann suspect who died in tractor accident revealed to have had violent past and 'behaved suspiciously' around children according to police profile

- The suspect may have kidnapped the girl as revenge against his former employers, a Portuguese paper reported
- Detectives are investigating the possibility he killed her after seeing the huge media coverage Madeline's disappearance generated
- The 40-year-old was an employee at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz
- He was from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa
- He died in a tractor accident back in 2009 according to Correio da Manha
- He was identified as the main suspect following mobile phone tests

By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE

PUBLISHED: 06:39 EST, 1 November 2013 | UPDATED: 06:44 EST, 1 November 2013

A police profile drawn up of a new Madeleine McCann suspect has exposed his violent past and ‘suspicious behaviour with children,’ it was claimed today.

Leading Portuguese daily Correio da Manha said the profile had heightened police suspicions about a dead immigrant thief said to have been put in the frame over the youngster's disappearance.

The Portuguese paper has identified an ex worker at the Ocean Club, the Algarve holiday club where Madeleine disappeared from, as the man police believe may have kidnapped her in an act of revenge against his former employer.

Detectives are investigating the possibility he killed her after seeing the huge backlash the crime generated, reports say.

 

Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483395/Madeleine-McCann-dead-suspect-revealed-violent-past-police-say.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

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Madeleine McCann abduction suspect was 'immigrant who received Presidential pardon'

THE man suspected of kidnapping Madeleine McCann was an immigrant who received a Presidential pardon after a theft conviction, local media have reported.
10/31/13



The suspect was reportedly indicted in 1996 and would have been deported to his home country of Cape Verde if not for the intervention of then leader Jorge Sampaio.

Portuguese daily Correio da Manha said it was custom around Christmas in the nineties for the President to choose a number of citizens to give pardons to.

The paper claims the unnamed suspect moved to Lagos, a fifteen minute drive from the McCann holiday home, where he tried to rebuild his life with his wife.

However, around the time of Maddie's disappearance the man was fired from his job at the Ocean Club in the Praia da Luz resort where the McCanns were staying.

Detectives are allegedly looking into the possibility that the suspect kidnapped the Briton in an act of revenge to being fired.

The paper claims the suspect knew the routines of Kate and Gerry McCann and was aware that they dined with friends late.

Clarence Mitchell, spokesman for Mr and Mrs McCann, said: "We are aware of reports in the Portuguese press.

"They are pure speculation and the McCanns are not going to give a running commentary on every new report."

The paper claims the man died in 2009 during a tractor accident.A relative of the suspect, who is believed to have been questioned by Portuguese police, told the paper: "They are looking for a suspect that can't defend himself.

"Peoples' lives can't be exposed this way."

Scotland Yard have issued fresh appeals for information in recent weeks in their inquiries into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

They have released two e-fit images of a man who witnesses saw carrying a child to the beach on the night of Madeleine's disappearance.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/440402/Madeleine-McCann-abduction-suspect-was-immigrant-who-received-Presidential-pardon

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521314/20131111/madeleine-mccann-suspect-new-report-praia-da.htm

 Madeleine McCann Hunt: Witness 'Disturbed' by Encounter with Praia da Luz Suspect

By Dominic Gover : Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed | November 11, 2013 5:59 PM GMT

Police officers trying to discover what happened to Madeleine McCann have strengthened a lead thanks to a new report by a British holidaymaker.

The woman, who does not want to be named, told how she and her daughter were approached by a man near to where Madeleine vanished in the weeks before the little girl's disappearance in 2007.

The woman's description of the stranger matches that given by two other witnesses in the holiday resort of Praia da Luz.

All three witnesses  said they had been "disturbed" by the encounter.

 

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Madeleine McCann parents cannot give evidence at detective's libel trial, judge rules
1/3/14
KATE and Gerry McCann were "disappointed" today after a judge ruled they cannot give evidence at the £1million libel trial of disgraced detective Goncalo Amaral.

The couple wanted to take the stand to give explain how Amaral's book about the Madeleine case had left them devastated.

But judge Maria de Melo e Castro ruled neither the McCanns nor the former police officer can give evidence in the case.

The couple, both 45-year-old doctors from Rothley, Leics, are suing Amaral for £1 million over his book The Truth of the Lie and a related TV documentary.

In the book Amaral, the former chief investigator on the case, claimed Madeleine died in the family's Algarve holiday apartment and accused the parents of faking her abduction.

The McCanns say Amaral became rich by promoting his warped theories after being thrown off the investigation in October 2007, five months after Madeleine went missing.

The judge also ruled Amaral cannot give evidence in the civil case, being heard at the Palace of Justice in Lisbon.    

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/451814/Madeleine-McCann-parents-cannot-give-evidence-at-detective-s-libel-trial-judge-rules

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Police identify three prime suspects for abduction of Madeleine McCann following analysis of mobile phone data
1/3/14
Data suggests a burglary gang was operating near time of disappearance
 Suspects made an 'unusually high' number of calls hours after Maddie was reported missing

 Police believe thieves carried out one raid in resort, disturbing a child

 Portuguese police attached no significance to the break-in days before

British detectives described oversight as a 'disgrace'

'Main line of inquiry' suggests burglars panicked and kidnapped Maddie

Analysis of mobile phone data suggests Madeleine McCann could have been kidnapped by a gang of burglars who panicked when she woke up as they raided her holiday apartment
 
Three prime suspects for the abduction of Madeleine McCann have been identified by Scotland Yard officers.
 
Analysis of mobile phone data suggests a burglary gang was operating very near to where she vanished in Portugal in May 2007.
 
The three men made an unusually high number of calls to each other in the hours after Madeleine was reported missing from her holiday flat in the Algarve.
 
Police believe the thieves, including at least one Portuguese man, had already carried out one raid in the resort of Praia da Luz, disturbing a child.
 
That child’s parents, who had been drinking outside the property, rushed inside to find the intruders had fled.
 
During their bungled investigation Portuguese police attached no significance to the break-in, which came a few days before Madeleine disappeared.

British detectives said this oversight was a ‘disgrace’.
 
Following the Yard phone breakthrough, informal discussions have taken place about arresting the three burglars and searching their homes and other sites. 


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533510/Police-identify-three-prime-suspects-abduction-Madeleine-McCann-following-analysis-mobile-phone-data.html#ixzz2pO0E36Q4
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Hopefully there will be a break in this case and Madeleine will be found.

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Hopefully there will be a break in this case and Madeleine will be found.

I agree Cookie!

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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/uk-police-say-gang-of-thieves-snatched-madeleine-mccann-in-a-burglary-gone-wrong/story-fneszs56-1226795199295

UK police say gang of thieves snatched Madeleine McCann in a burglary 'gone wrong'

 January 05, 2014 4:36PM

UK police say they know who kidnapped British four-year-old Maddie McCann in Portugal seven years ago, and are angry and frustrated they cannot swoop in and arrest the men.

Three men who were members of a gang of thieves are now prime suspects in Maddie's abduction from a Portuguese beach resort in 2007.

Scotland Yard police officers have identified the men in the enduring mystery of the girl's disappearance.

British detectives have analysed mobile phone records of the men who are believed to be members of a burglary gang preying on tourists in the Algarve beach resort town of Praia da Luz around the time Madeleine vanished.

The police have tracked a high volume of calls between the three men in the hours after Madeleine was reported missing from the holiday apartment rented by her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann.

 

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If only the children had not been left alone.
Too late now. I do hope that the McCanns get another chance with their daughter. Praying it will be so. I hope that if this story is true, that they took Madeleine and one of them kept her in their family and did not harm her. Am I a dreamer? Hope so.

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If only the children had not been left alone.
Too late now. I do hope that the McCanns get another chance with their daughter. Praying it will be so. I hope that if this story is true, that they took Madeleine and one of them kept her in their family and did not harm her. Am I a dreamer? Hope so.

beautiful dreamer -- I hope you are correct too!

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Scotland Yard police set to make first arrests in case of missing British toddler Madeleine: Officers fly to Portugal to quiz 'three burglars'
1/13/14

The Metropolitan Police are said to be planning their first arrests in the Madeleine McCann investigation review set up three years ago.

 
Operation Grange officers were preparing to travel to Portugal last night. They are thought to be pursuing three burglars who were operating in the area when the three-year-old went missing.

 
As revealed by the Daily Mail 10 days ago, the thieves were identified as prime suspects earlier this month when analysis of mobile phone data indicated they had made an unusually high number of calls to each other in the hours after the disappearance.


This morning a Scotland Yard spokesman confirmed that the Crown Prosecution Service has sent an International Letter of Request to the police in Portugal.
 
The letter is said to request permission to arrest the burglars so that the British detectives can question them about their activities around the time the little girl went missing.

 
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, are said to have described the letter as a ‘significant development’.    


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538472/British-police-preparing-make-arrests-Operation-Grange-investigation-disappearance-Madeleine-McCann.html#ixzz2qIMXfklT
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Thanks Toler...u r awesome...

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/madeleine-mccann-cops-poised-make-arrests-disappearance/story?id=21512647
Madeleine McCann Cops Poised to Make Arrests in Her Disappearance
LONDON Jan. 13, 2014

Video at link.

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/14/british-police-target-3-men-in-portugal-in-disappearance-madeleine-mccann/
British police target 3 men in Portugal in disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Published January 14, 2014
FoxNews.com

Video at link.
British police are on their way to Portugal to arrest three men in connection with the case of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared in 2007 while on a family vacation at a Portuguese resort.   

Britain’s Metropolitan Police Service wants to question three thieves who carried out raids in the coastal town of Praia da Luz, where the then 3-year-old McCann was last seen, according to a report in London’s Daily Mirror. 
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The Crown Prosecution Service sent an International Letter of Request to Portuguese authorities seeking permission to arrest the men. But Portuguese authorities have not yet received the letter, according to the BBC.

“The letter is a significant development. It is necessary for British police to request the Portuguese authorities allow them to operate on their turf,” a spokesman for Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry told the Mirror.

“Whether the Portuguese will co-operate remains to be seen. It is a very sensitive issue with differences they have had,” the unnamed spokesperson said. “Police want to be given a chance to arrest key suspects. It doesn’t prove they have Madeleine, but it will rule them in or out of the investigation and that is i­mportant.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/14/british-police-target-3-men-in-portugal-in-disappearance-madeleine-mccann/
British police target 3 men in Portugal in disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Published January 14, 2014
FoxNews.com

Video at link.
British police are on their way to Portugal to arrest three men in connection with the case of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared in 2007 while on a family vacation at a Portuguese resort.   

Britain’s Metropolitan Police Service wants to question three thieves who carried out raids in the coastal town of Praia da Luz, where the then 3-year-old McCann was last seen, according to a report in London’s Daily Mirror. 
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The Crown Prosecution Service sent an International Letter of Request to Portuguese authorities seeking permission to arrest the men. But Portuguese authorities have not yet received the letter, according to the BBC.

“The letter is a significant development. It is necessary for British police to request the Portuguese authorities allow them to operate on their turf,” a spokesman for Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry told the Mirror.

“Whether the Portuguese will co-operate remains to be seen. It is a very sensitive issue with differences they have had,” the unnamed spokesperson said. “Police want to be given a chance to arrest key suspects. It doesn’t prove they have Madeleine, but it will rule them in or out of the investigation and that is i­mportant.”
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praying for answers.

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Nothing like giving the 3 suspects ample time to go on the run...geez!