Misleading for who? I don't agree. She was never missing in the first place and she was found alive which proves it wasn't her cadaver the dog was alerting to.
A little bit of proof never misleads anyone.
The jury in the Shannon Matthews case hear the true extent of time, money and resources dedicated to finding herThree quarters of the UK's trained police dogs were used in the hunt for Shannon Matthews. Photographer: Gareth Copley/PA
The search for Shannon was one of the largest ever conducted by the West Yorkshire force.
Prosecutor Julian Goose QC told the court today that the 24-day hunt cost almost £3.2 million and involved three quarters of all the UK's specially-trained police dogs.
At its height, the search involved more than 300 police officers, members of the public and the media, who all joined in with the operation to find her, the court was told.
Within a half-mile radius of where Shannon was last seen, 1,800 premises were searched and extensive house-to-house inquiries were conducted at many more.
The court was told most child abduction investigations resulted in the victim being found within a half-mile radius of where he or she went missing.
This was why West Yorkshire police committed its "huge resources" to this area where there were more than 2,850 premises, the jury was told.
Goose said more than 800 CCTV tapes and computer hard drives were examined and 41 other areas were searched outside the half-mile radius of Moorside Road, including operations in Cumbria and Nottinghamshire.
The jury of seven men and five women also heard that police experience showed that when children were abducted and murdered they normally died within three days of their disappearance.
"All available police dog handlers, firearms officers, special constables, rescue workers and a large number of residents from the Dewsbury Moor estate were engaged in that search," he said.
The prosecutor added: "The search involved hundreds of police officers, even more members of the public and national newspaper and television publicity.
"All this was for one single purpose; to find Shannon alive and well."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/12/shannonmatthews-biggest-searchThat is precisely the fact that Martin Grime noted in the search for Madeleine ... "which proves it wasn't her cadaver the dog was alerting to."
But you are seriously wrong in saying that Shannon "was never missing".
Of course she was ... and it is misleading for you to claim otherwise.
The intensive and immediate concentration of the focused search of the area in which she was eventually recovered from shows how difficult it is to trace a missing person who has been hidden.
Shannon was missing for twenty four days during which the intensity of the search for her was never let up.
Madeleine was never given that leeway ... according to Amaral in his book he thought she was dead right from the beginning ... and leaks to the Portuguese press during the golden hours prove how early she was given up on ...
JOSE MANUEL OLIVEIRACrime reporter, 'Diario de Noticias'
Information started circulating from sources connected to the Portuguese police that the story was full of holes from the side of the McCanns and their friends. Indeed within two days of Madeleine disappearing, this crime correspondent was filing this piece in the Portuguese Daily: Diario of the Noticias: "Headline: a badly told story." We started to receive information according to which the police suspected the theory they had apprehensions, didn't believe the theory that she had been kidnapped. To conclude, the police started to suspect the parents from the word go.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7106086.stmMaybe Saunokonoko might make a podcast reflecting that angle contrasting the difference in the manner of the searches conducted for two missing children ... I wouldn't think the contrast might have occurred, but one never knows.
