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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2015 13:53:15 GMT
 The trio were given “arguido” or suspect status in July last year which allowed Portuguese detectives to question them intensively about their movements around the time that Madeleine vanished in May 2007. Details of those interviews have now been analysed by Scotland Yard officers. Under Portuguese law the arguido status lasts for only eight months but can be extended, although that is not common. If no formal accusations can be made, investigations are shelved, which automatically removes the arguido status. With an April deadline approaching, the Yard is carefully considering its next move. Senior Portuguese police officers recently met British officials in Portugal for an update on what the Yard team seeks to do and how long it will take. Although there are no plans to drop the four-year £10million Operation Grange investigation, led by Detective Chief Inspector Nicola Wall, the meeting focused on what new information has come to light and what more needs to be done. It is understood that part of the discussion was about DNA samples taken from the Ocean Club holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve where Madeleine was staying with her family. The trio waiting to have their arguido status lifted are former Ocean Club driver Jose Carlos da Silva, jobless schizophrenic Paulo Jorge Ribeiro and Ricardo Jorge, who was just 16 at the time Madeleine vanished.  |
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Post by Admin on Apr 3, 2015 13:22:06 GMT
 Sky News offered "condolences" because one of the people it reported on died by suicide, the Guardian reported. Brenda Leyland, who had posted on Twitter hundreds of negative remarks about the parents of Madeleine McCann, who went missing in Portugal in 2007, died by suicide last year. BuzzFeed collected a list of her tweets about the family.  "Brenda Leyland's tragic death highlights the unforeseeable human impact that the stories we pursue can have, and Sky News would like to extend its sincere condolences to her family," Sky News said in a statement sent to iMediaEthics, defending its reporting as in the "public interest." Sky News' reporter Martin Brunt, who attempted to interview Leyland about her tweets days before her death, said he is "devastated" by what happened. Leyland's death is in the news again as a UK coroner just completed an inquest into her death and confirming her death was by suicide.  At the time of Leyland's death last October, Brunt defended his actions noting he never "stalked, chased" Leyland and only asked her for comment, as iMediaEthics wrote at the time. Leyland told Brunt that she had "thought about ending it all but I am feeling better," but Brunt said he dismissed that comment as not a serious remark about suicide, he told the inquest, according to the BBC. Sky News defended its decision to pursue Leyland for an interview and a news report. “The team at Sky News followed its editorial guidelines and pursued a story in a responsible manner that we believed was firmly in the public interest," it said in a statement, according to the Guardian.Meanwhile, Leyland's son Ben said in a statement, “There is no doubt in my mind that the Sky News interview was the final straw that pushed her to do what she did.” Ultimately, the coroner investigating Leyland's death ruled that “I am satisfied that no one could have known what she was going to do and how she was going to do it,” according to the Telegraph. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2015 13:53:38 GMT
Hulk Hogan has once again fallen for a Twitter prank. Less than a month ago he retweeted a picture of Madeleine McCann after someone told him she had ‘just won the hide and seek competition’.  This time, however, it’s Joseph Fritzl. Twitter user AndySE25 told him that he’s his grandfather who ‘despite some family problems’ never misses a show.  Fritzl, who kept his daughter captive in a basement for 24 years and fathered several children with her, also appears to be wearing a WWF-style T-shirt in the picture. The end result was a lot of tweets like this flying around. Good advice… |
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2015 3:42:39 GMT
Kate McCann has said she is "really encouraged" by the progress being made in the case of her missing daughter Madeleine. Kate said she couldn't reveal details of the investigation but said there had been "a lot" of progress in the last six months.  Madeleine McCann was three when she went missing eight years ago from her family's holiday apartment in Portugal's Algarve. Portuguese police closed their investigation in 2008 but the Metropolitan police launched their own inquiry three years later.  Kate said told Good Morning Britain: "Well obviously I can’t give any investigation details out but let’s just say we’re really encouraged. "There has been a lot of progress in the last six months plus, last year. "The co-operation between the UK and the Portuguese seems to be really good which is really positive for us and I can say there is progress being made.” She was speaking from York where she is currently leading a 500-mile bike ride to raise £10,000 for a missing persons charity. Speaking about the bike ride, Kate said: “I think it’s hard to resist a challenge when the cause is something that’s just so close to your heart. "It’s inevitable I will be thinking of Madeleine and I think particularly when it gets tough, there will be the times when I’ll be saying ‘I’m doing this for Madeleine, I’m doing this for all missing children.” Kate is leading 20 cyclists on the bike ride which started at Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh's landmark hill, on Saturday. To donate to Kate McCann's Cycle Challenge visit www.justgiving.com/KateMcCann/ |
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2015 4:06:13 GMT
 Madeleine McCann's mum's completed a five hundred mile charity bike ride from Edinburgh to the Tower of London - to help other families with a missing loved one. Kate McCann (pictured centre) has described how her daughter Madeleine "was very much on my mind" throughout the 500 mile ride. Mrs McCann was greeted by her cheering husband Gerry and their two children as she completed the ride on Wednesday 17 June 2015. She was joined by up to 20 other cyclists to raise money for charity Missing People, of which she is an ambassador. Mrs McCann said: "It's such a great feeling to have achieved that. "We all know why we're here, we know it's such a good cause and that keeps you going whenever you're going up a hill and you can't see round that bend - you just keep thinking about those children.  "I know this won't help Madeline but I'd hate to think that any other child would have to go through this and their family would have to go through what we've been through. "Although Madeline has very much been on my mind through this I know that that is helping lots of other children.  The group travelled through Newcastle, York, Nottingham and Northampton before crossing the finish line in London. Mrs McCann last year launched Child Rescue Alert for the charity alongside the mother of murdered schoolgirl April Jones. The scheme is designed to use social media, text messages, email and digital billboards across the UK in addition to traditional broadcast media to issue alerts when a child is believed to have been abducted, and so far more than 250,000 people have signed up. |
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