Journalistic speculations are not to be relied on. There is no evidence that members of the Metropolitan Police were doing any work at all on the case. Their involvement began in May 2011.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22918857
Kate McCann was unaware of anything at all being done prior to that except Gamble's 'scoping' exercise.
We are still pressing the British and Portuguese
governments to do more, or at least something. A
year after our request for a review of Madeleine’s
case, Alan Johnson, the second home secretary we
had met, commissioned CEOP to undertake a
‘scoping’ exercise – basically to establish whether
they felt a review may be of benefit. Their report has been with the Home Office since March 2010. Although we have not seen it, it has been widely
reported that it highlights some deficiencies in the
investigation and hence areas that merit further
attention. We have since met the current home secretary, Theresa May, and written to her several times. Currently we do not know whether we are any further
forward, or whether the British government has even
raised the suggestion of a review with the Portuguese authorities. In November 2010 we
started a petition to lobby the two governments to
conduct an independent review. We are at a loss to
understand why such a commonly used procedure
isn’t an obvious option and why our request for such
a review has gone unanswered.
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Among the issues highlighted in the scoping exercise ... which did in fact lead to a review of Madeleine's case due to the persistence of her parents ... was the fact that the original investigation led by Amaral was monumentally inept and there was
" ... a basic failure to collate information and join up links that should have been made.
Telephone records were not properly analysed, missing early opportunities for leads.
And Kate and Gerry McCann were named as Arguidos, or formal suspects, by Portuguese police - something that the review says would not have happened if the probe had been carried out in the UK.
Mr Gamble found no evidence sufficient to make them suspects. His findings have now been formally submitted to the Home Office with recommendations to re-investigate".
http://themaddiecasefiles.com/brits-launch-maddie-probe-news-of-the-world-10-04--t7721.htmlDidn't miss much in his scoping exercise didn't Jim Gamble.
Amaral knew that Brueckner was a paedophile with a connection to Luz.
But did he know about phone calls made from Brueckner's cell phone on the night Madeleine vanished ... or was he far too tied into tracing the calls received and sent by Madeleine's parents and friends to be bothered with what a known paedophile might have been doing in Luz using the solid evidence provided by the British instigated initiative of the cell phone dump?
