2nd! Posted this at the end of the previous thread, so here it is again:

Re Madeleine: DOES THIS WAFFLE RECEIVED FROM THE HOME OFFICE HAVE ANY RELEVANCE TO THE ENQUIRIES MADE?

On 29th January 2008, I wrote to my MP, Michael Foster, edited as follows:
“Why is our Government now failing to cooperate with the Portuguese Police?
Rogatory letters were sent from Portugal in early January…. to date there has not even been an official acknowledgement…..
Would you please investigate:
Why did the McCanns instantly engage top lawyers for themselves, both in Portugal and here, yet continue to employ a detective agency with no experience of finding missing children, and who seem to specialise in making ludicrous sightings at vast expense? In my opinion it smacks of money laundering.
Why are the McCanns not presently and transparently accountable for the huge sums of money raised by the public, supposedly to Find Madeleine?
Why do the McCanns warrant unprecedented support from many influential people, which enables them to suppress investigation into the truth? Just how gullible do all these people imagine the public to be? ”
……….
Michael Foster has now forwarded to me a copy of a letter addressed to him from Admiral The Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, dated 20th Feb 2008. It reads:

Dear Michael,
Thank you for your letter of 5 February 2008 to the Home Secretary on behalf of Mrs (my name and full address) about Madeleine McCann. I have been asked to respond as Minister with responsibility for extradition.

You will appreciate that we cannot disclose details of any specific cases that may have been referred to the Home Secretary for consideration. To protect the integrity of any on-going criminal investigations, our normal policy is to neither confirm nor deny that a request has been made or received. However, exceptionally I can confirm that the Home Office has only very recently received a formal request for Mutual Legal Assistance concerning the McCann investigation. It is not appropriate to comment further on this particular case.

In general terms, the provision of evidence from one country to another for use in criminal proceedings or investigations is carried out under mutual legal assistance legislation, specifically the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003. Competent judicial authorities in one country, who are conducting criminal investigations or proceedings, may make a request for evidence to be obtained by way of a formal letter of request, which is then passed through a Central Authority (the UK Central Authority is located in the Home Office) so that it may be executed by an appropriate law enforcement agency.

Before it is allocated to these agencies, a request is fully considered by officials, on behalf of the Home Secretary, to ensure it complies with relevant legislation and the UK’s international obligations, as there are a number of international conventions and bilateral treaties that need to be taken into consideration.

I would therefore wish to assure your constituent that, far from the Government “blocking” any investigation, requests for mutual legal assistance are a normal method of tackling international crime that are subject to both domestic and international legislation and agreements and as such have to be duly considered by the Secretary of State.

For further information on mutual legal assistance your constituent may wish to see the Home Office website at the following address:

http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/operational-policing/MLA5thedition.pdf?view=Binary.

Yours aye
(signed) West of Spithead
LORD WEST OF SPITHEAD GCB DSC
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I imagine this is probably a fairly standard response sent out to anybody who has written to their MP expressing concern about investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. DOEST IT HELP?

sorry i meant c***s

night then all

Just one.+

Thank you, May.

“I can confirm that the Home Office has only very recently received a formal request for Mutual Legal Assistance concerning the McCann investigation. ”

Among the waffle, a little nugget of information, duly noted.

Mornin come on Brandon, I’m ready to go cash our giro’s, are ya takin ya burberry andbag? see ya at da post office. Lets get some cheap grub for da kids and we can get some booze for us innit!

just_me

See you there!!!

erm innit!!

Lyn 9

Actually Leona Lewis has made an appeal and apparently a donation, and pensioner donated £500.00. Its a far cry from the mccanns, but maybe its our fault, instead of banging our keyboards we should be contacting the news stations asking them for coverage and boosting the subject matter. Actually, I think I will write to a couple of newspapers and online news agencies right now. Lets all do it.

Why one child should get so much attention, and another receive f**k all is totally out of order.

Army helpers now in Jersey. Ground Radar being used.

Why do they keep reporting that Mr Barack Obama is a black man,
As I understand it one of his parents is black, the other white.
Why does that not make him white ?

20 PeterMac

I think that makes him a rather lovely cappuccino.

21 Matt
Absolutely agree.
But I almost thought this sort of racism had been laid to rest
Half caste, quadroon, octaroon and so on. The slightest “Taint” of black blood being enough to bar a person from society.
Now it seems people look for that part of their genetic background and call themselves black, even if they clearly are not.

It seems as though Karen Matthews knows who has taken her daughter. Maybe this is why the police are keeping the case low profile. I think the Press has probably been instructed to keep the news down. I saw Karen on the news holding a teddy - the McCanns certainly have a lot to answer for.

26…Logic

I thought she indicated that she was suspicious rather than certain..and
has lost trust in associates.

A sad state to be in but a natural one considering the circumstances.

Certainly the Police are nosing around areas closer to home…rather than
widening the search presently.

This cannot be a Madeleine thread, she is only fourth on the leader, does Anorak know something we don’t, are we being weaned off gently.