The actual excerpt from 51 seconds onwards says, verbatim - "The file was handed to that team and we were liasing with Leicestershire police which is where the McCann family live, and sadly as it turned out possibly the person who was trolling and abusing, er, people, may well have been. The file was in the process of being considered partly by the met,partly by Leicestershire but was likely to have been dealt with by Leicestershire police not by the met"
Context - Hogan Howe confirms that Leyland was trolling and abusing, and may well have been living in the Leicester area also.
If you are going to take the bit about the handing over of the dossier by the family as authoratative then you must logically do the same for his assertion that BL was trolling and abusing.
OK Alfie this answers your question....(in red font) there was no immediate rushing to make arrests due to a crime being commited against the McCanns.. They did liase to see who would deal with it.. no one dealt with it! but being very angry and wanting blood - the police ignored it- no case to answer- someone handed it to SKY..roopie murdooks media outlet. ( well used by McCANNS).
Oh and just a wee thing about reporting crime... if It comes to court everyone has the right to face their accuser...hmm cool eh? no annonymity here guv.
JP...The word was MAY not has in Howes statement. he did let a we murder word drop into his speech as well- not the most articulate of people to do TV interviews eh?