So what actual searching was there?

[mercury]

Personally, I would classify the searching done by the T9 as both token and extremely odd.

Kate should have been out the front door of 5A in a flash and wasn't.

Gerry seems to have searched in the Tapas area, which begs the question as to why he might have thought an abducted child should be in the area the T9 had come from.

The crunchy bit is the Tanner sighting.  Tanner supposedly told the police about this soon after they turned up, and that was when Gerry learned of it.  Personally, I would have had the men-folk head in that direction as soon as the info surfaced.  That search never happened.

And just to be crystal clear, this makes the T9 guilty of no more than very odd behaviour.

Some very excellent observations.
To be fair they all  had the luxury that half the village were out all night searching and then we had the mother complaining whilst never searchng at all that night that on going out the next morning was horrified that no one was out searching. Well, people had to sleep. They continued the next day, some IIRC taking time off work/cancelling holidays  to do so.

[ferryman]

Some very excellent observations.
To be fair they all  had the luxury that half the village were out all night searching and then we had the mother complaining whilst never searchng at all that night that on going out the next morning was horrified that no one was out searching. Well, people had to sleep. They continued the next day, some IIRC taking time off work/cancelling holidays  to do so.

In England, relatives of missing loved-ones are not actively discouraged from joining searches for nothing.

[mercury]

In England, relatives of missing loved-ones are not actively discouraged from joining searches for nothing.

Que?

[ferryman]

Que?

Maybe it was the double negative that confused you?

In England, relatives of missing loved-one are actively discouraged from joining searches.

[mercury]

Maybe it was the double negative that confused you?

In England, relatives of missing loved-one are actively discouraged from joining searches.

So who discouraged the parents in Portugal from going out to look for their first born? And of course that was not the sum of my post or SIL's, perhaps you might like to spend a minute or two coming up with a plausible comment/ answer to her very pertinent observations

[Brietta]

Maybe it was the double negative that confused you?

In England, relatives of missing loved-one are actively discouraged from joining searches.

For very obvious reasons.

[Mr Gray]

everything is a matter of opinion...the mccanns have kept up the search for maddie...I bet the needhams wish they could have achieved so much

you want to continually criticise the mccanns..I want to support them..it's a personal choice

[Brietta]

Can anyone give the story of why a search was carried out in Quinta Salsalito?

It seems it was a very extensive one.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/QUINTA_SALSALITO.htm

[Alice Purjorick]

Can anyone give the story of why a search was carried out in Quinta Salsalito?

It seems it was a very extensive one.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/QUINTA_SALSALITO.htm

The woman who gave permission for the property to be searched is Robert Murat's cousin; that may have some bearing on it.
Nothing was found though it seems.

[Brietta]

The woman who gave permission for the property to be searched is Robert Murat's cousin; that may have some bearing on it.
Nothing was found though it seems.

Nothing was found.

But a quick glance at the photographs taken at the time gives an indication of what the PJ were up against with regard to searching some of the larger villas and the surrounding wasteland.

There was little chance of finding anything in that or similar properties without either lots of luck or specific intelligence to inform them exactly where and what they should be looking at.

[Alice Purjorick]

Nothing was found.

But a quick glance at the photographs taken at the time gives an indication of what the PJ were up against with regard to searching some of the larger villas and the surrounding wasteland.

There was little chance of finding anything in that or similar properties without either lots of luck or specific intelligence to inform them exactly where and what they should be looking at.

Or maybe they realised early doors they had been given a bum steer and the game wasn't worth the candle ?
Read the archiving report.

[stephen25000]

Please remind us dave, how much physical searching was done by the mccanns after the 3 rd May 2007 ?

[Angelo222]

I think its ridiculous to suggest the mccanns should physically search...its the job of the professionals.....they have done far more by persuading SY to get involved

That must be one of the most ridiculous replies I've ever seen to the question of searching for a missing child.  Every parent of a missing child goes out searching if they are able to but the McCanns thought going jogging was a better use of their time.

[stephen25000]

That must be one of the most ridiculous replies I've ever seen to the question of searching for a missing child.  Every parent of a missing child goes out searching if they are able to but the McCanns thought going jogging was a better use of their time.

Well said Angelo.

[Angelo222]

The McCanns have had every opportunity to go searching for their daughter since she disappeared in 2007 but have not done so.  They could have spent a lot more time in Portugal promoting the disappearance but again chose not to.