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“We have been saying for a long time now that, frankly, it’s about time that the police came to reinterview anyone they need to reinterview,”

Sounds to me like someones nerves are getting the better of them!

Night night anyone reading!

go to the M F

London asked for more time before the McCann are charged
(coming soon)

http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2008/01/london-asked-more-time-before-mccann.html

What is man on a hill?

http://www.esplendordelaforma.blogspot.com

With the movie the McCanns have gone too far
Daily Mail

Portuguese Police consider that they have enough evidence to charge the McCann and some of their friends, without the need of a new round of inquiries to the Tapas Group. However, it was suggested that the process of sending rogatory letters could achieve a better result, with the cooperation of British authorities, after the McCann and some of their friends rejected a suggestion from Polícia Judiciária to go back to Portugal and submit to another questioning.

The suggestion was transmitted through Leicester Police but the McCann legal team put as a condition to accept it that the status of formal suspect of Gerry and Kate should be lifted, first. Portuguese police justified the suggestion as a faster way of going forward with the investigation, avoiding a complex and bureaucratic process for a new questioning to take place in UK, with rogatory letters to the Home Office.

But informal messages sent from the British Government to Lisbon stated clearly that the best way to get a full cooperation from British Police, while charging the McCann, would be to follow a more time-consuming process, in order to guarantee that it would take, at least three months to achieve it, as Gordon Brown fight for political survival can have him facing elections early than expected.

Today it was revealed that Esther McVey, one of the managers of the fund to help find Madeleine, resigned to concentrate on her role as a Conservative parliamentary candidate. Other members of the board have announced the intention to resign, but were requested to wait until contacts to replace them were finished. Around 75 % of the donations have been spent in payments to several private companies and other advisers and experts that have been helping the McCann to manage the Media campaign about Madeleine’s disappearance.

With almost no donations since the parents were named formal suspects, the fund is dwindling fast and the McCann are negotiating agreements for a movie and a book. At the same time, a new private detectives company – Hogan International - was hired, with a specific mission: to review all the police investigation and try to find “weak links”. Hogan International will also replace Metodo 3, the Spanish detectives company, at the end of their contract.

Duarte Levy and Paulo Reis

Mods + Admin

What is the situation about commenting on forums if charges are made. I’m sure I read
Peter O saying he would no longer comment because of libel during a criminal case

If this is the case, what will happen to the commenting.

What has been the precedent on Anorak before eg: the Operation Ore case?

Thanks

Thanks Brandon , must have missed that sorry..

got excited when it said new forum

The heart consultant has become a close friend of the father of 15-year-old Amy Smart, abducted in the US and found eight months later. Several movies were made about her while she was missing including The Amy Smart Story.

Her father has told Gerry he believes they helped keep his daughter in the public eye and led to her being spotted months later.

Last night, critics condemned the McCanns over the movie plans. On one blog, angry Pamela Blears, from Oldham, wrote: “From the day little Madeleine disappeared I have felt sympathy and compassion for the McCanns but this beggers belief.

“How can they think about making a film out of the tragedy when the poor child hasn’t even been found yet? How low can you get?”

Geoff Lowe, from New Zealand, wrote: “How could any genuine grieving parents be looking for this sort of money-making venture so soon after her disappearance?” An entry on another site said: “This is bad taste in the extreme. It is quite staggering.

“Surely the McCanns should be focusing all their efforts on finding Madeleine, not negotiating movie deals. It is just unbelievable.”

Kate and Gerry, both 39, deny being involved in their daughter’s disappearance and insist she was abducted from their holiday apartment while they dined with friends in a nearby Tapas restaurant.

Insiders said they would not appear on film personally but would give the makers interviews and access to personal background material that has never been seen.

The film would chart events leading up to Madeleine’s disappearance and her parents’ desperate hunt for her. It will also show how they went from victims to suspects and highlight their fight to prove their innocence.

Mr Mitchell said the couple would only co-operate with the film, or any other project, only when their status as suspects was lifted.

A source close to the couple added: “The film deal is possible. It is the sort of thing we would look at seriously because in one fell swoop we could resolve the funding of the search overnight.”

Back for a moment to post this left by EQG on other thread.

Dr G P scared stiff by response to Film reports ??

Read today’s blog.

http://findmadeleine.com/

G’night all…again.

24 annie123 Says:

“Their legal team said they would only return to Portugal if the arguido status was lifted - so much for them wanting to return to clear any misunderstandings.”

Where’s the problem? What the McCanns want is one thing - what their legal team advices them is another. It’s the same with your lawyers as with your doctors. You may want yet another pint, but who could ever blame you if you obey to your doctors advice instead?

26 Ferdinand Says:

January 9th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Pact of silence?
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must be the witching hour

28 Cheryl Says:

“This is not the first person over the months I’ve read saying they’d made a statement to the police but never heard back.”

What would you expect? The police takes the statement. The story about the orphanage is easy to verify. The police has either not found out who this person was, or they have found out and he was indeed collecting for an orphanage.