Missing Madeleine star-date 2nd March 2010

We were totally amused to read the following piece in the Daily Star News web site:

 Missing Madeleine 2nd March 2010
By Jerry Lawton

POLICE have failed to investigate dozens of possible sightings of missing Madeleine McCann dating back almost two years.   Her parents claim detectives have also ignored tip-offs about possible suspects.

The case was shelved by Portuguese police in 2008.

But Kate and Gerry McCann, both 41, have asked Home Secretary Alan Johnson, 59, to demand that it is reopened.

A family pal said: “It is scandalous that police seem to have just washed their hands of this case.”

Has someone forgot to tell this individual that the McCanns decided that they could do a better job than the Police, and almost from the start commenced employing their own "detectives" and "detective agencies", who have all cost a lot and achieved very little?  Presumably as funds are running low they now want to move the financial burden back on the taxpayer and give the Police another opportunity to bring the case to a conclusion. 

We just wonder what support the McCanns will give the Police in their endeavours!!!   Will they participate in a reconstruction or answer the questions put of them?   We shall see but don't hold your breath!
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NON CO-OPERATION OR ???

We see that the McCanns are now crying over the fact that they do not seem to be getting any help from the Portuguese or English Police when "leads" are reported to them.  We are not surprised.

Perhaps if the McCanns had left the Police in both countries to do their jobs instead of interfering by producing their own monstrous publicity campaign and by employing their own Detectives, the Police would have got on with the job and we may have seen a positive result by now.  We are sure that both Forces dislike the McCanns efforts to criticise the work they were doing and as such we think they have now all but left the McCanns to their own devices.

The present private dicks do not seem to have done anything useful and, in fact, have probably had a negative effect on the matter by apparently just attempting to find a scape goat and assisting in the depletion of the Find Madeleine Fund.  For so called intelligent individuals the McCanns can certainly make some peculiar decisions!

If the McCanns want the case re-opened, as they are suggesting, then first they must "call off the dogs", give the Police ALL the help they can and get the rest of the Tapas group to do the same.   Some honest statements need to be made, and possibly a genuine reconstruction in PdL of the events of 3 May 2007 with ALL of those involved present.   The amount of work and cost that will be involved could maybe be considered as unjustified when the central figure may well be beyond finding, or even dead.  The McCanns fighting fund could, of course, be handed over to the Police to offset the cost to the taxpayer!

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The Cancelled Reconstruction

http://www.mccannfiles.com/id279.html . The above link relates to the happenings surrounding the proposed reconstruction of the events on the evening of Madeleine's disappearance. The Portuguese Police felt that by holding a full reconstruction of the events of that evening with the actual persons taking their own roles they would be in a position to further explore the evidence they had alrady assembled and clarify any areas of uncertainty. . Despite assurances given by the Police as to the safety of the McCanns and the others in the party the reconstruction had to be cancelled as there was a refusal by them to take part. Not exactly what one would expect from doting parents and their "friends" desperate to locate a missing youngster. . The link shows the results of the efforts of the Police to set up the reconstruction and the lack of co-operation of the British party. . Thanks to Ironside .