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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2017 18:52:04 GMT
 The Home Office has agreed to give Scotland Yard another £154,000 to continue its search for Madeleine McCann until the end of March next year. In April the Scotland Yard team investigating her disappearance was given £85,000 to continue working until the end of this month.  More than £11m has been spent trying to find the missing girl, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007, aged three. "Following an application from the Metropolitan Police, the Home Office has confirmed funding for Operation Grange until the end of March 2018," a Home Office spokesperson said. "As with all applications, the resources required are reviewed regularly and careful consideration is given before any funding is allocated." |
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Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2017 19:23:58 GMT
 Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are reportedly hunting a "person of significance". The revelation comes just days after the investigation was awarded new funding. The Times reports a source close to Scotland Yard's search operation has said that finding the person in question is one of the "critical lines of inquiry."  More than £11 million has been spent on the probe to find the missing girl, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007, aged three. Since 2011, the Met Police have been assisting with the search for clues about what happened to Madeleine, with officers visiting the holiday resort in 2014. |
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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2017 19:01:37 GMT
 Police are now searching for an Eastern European woman, described by them as a “critical witness,” in the investigation for missing UK girl Madeleine McCann. Scotland Yard gave some £154,000 ($203,000) to Operation Grange’s £12 million ($15 million) budget to find a woman who investigators think could provide information into the girl’s disappearance in 2007.  “She may have see [sic] or heard something which to her may seem insignificant but to us could prove vital. If she recognizes herself she should contact police. She has nothing to fear. This is just to eliminate her from inquiries,” a police source told The Sun. The woman is said to have lived in Praia da Luz, Portugal, where the girl vanished 10 years ago. She left the country after her husband died. Another source added to the newspaper that the unnamed woman is a “critical witness.” There is a theory, according to the source, that the girl was abducted in a burglary-gone-wrong. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2017 18:54:07 GMT
 Ten years ago, Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old daughter of Kate and Gerry McCann, vanished from the family’s resort apartment in Portugal’s Praia da Luz. The frantic search for Madeleine quickly evolved into an international investigation, with Portuguese and British police coming to very different conclusions. Early on in the investigation, the Portuguese police, Polícia Judiciária, suspected Kate and Gerry McCann were involved with the disappearance of their daughter. Detectives didn’t believe Madeleine could have been abducted through the apartment’s bedroom window like Kate had claimed, as they (incorrectly) said the window shutters could only be opened from the inside. There was also no reported forensic evidence of anyone climbing through the window. |
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Post by Admin on Nov 10, 2017 19:05:46 GMT
Some also believe Madeleine could have left the apartment on her own in search of her parents, who were having dinner with friends at a tapas bar about 70 meters away from where Madeleine and her twin brother and sister Sean and Amelie slept. While the front door of the flat was locked, Kate and Gerry left the patio door open so they could easily check on their children throughout the evening.  According to The Sun, Mark Williams-Thomas, an investigative journalist and ex-cop, told ITV's This Morning, “I think Maddie was aware they were in the tapas bar in the resort. In order to get to the bar you have to come out of the premises, walk on a public road and go back in again.” For this to be true, however, Madeleine would’ve had to open and close the large sliding door on her own, which many believe is unlikely. |
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