Latest news on the search for Madeleine McCann

[stephen25000]

He takes Madeleine from Portugal to Australia by airplane,later Bali, Thailand, UK and Malta.
Madeleine was sighted in Malta after all this trips ??
What a farce!
 

Is it a joke or just plain pathetic ?

[Brietta]

Forensic scientists to join British police in McCann investigation
Analysts want to re-examine evidence retrieved from apartment from which Madeleine went missing in 2007

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/13/madeleine-mccann-forensic-scientists-portugal

There is unidentified DNA from hairs found in the original forensic sweep of the alartment ... there are also hairs which have not been accounted for.

There were also smudged fingerprints from the original forensics, don't know if updated techniques will be able to make anything of those, they certainly couldn't in 2007.

[Matt Erixon]

Is it a joke or just plain pathetic ?

It is a big fat joke as much else in this circus.

[Mr Gray]

There is unidentified DNA from hairs found in the original forensic sweep of the alartment ... there are also hairs which have not been accounted for.

There were also smudged fingerprints from the original forensics, don't know if updated techniques will be able to make anything of those, they certainly couldn't in 2007.

Should be good for the British scientists to have a look at these

[stephen25000]

It is a big fat joke as much else in this circus.

and maybe, just maybe since the cost of this investigation resurfaces, so do the 'sightings'.

Talk about deja vu.

[Brietta]

and maybe, just maybe since the cost of this investigation resurfaces, so do the 'sightings'.

Talk about deja vu.

To which sightings do you refer?

[Alice Purjorick]

Should be good for the British scientists to have a look at these

As long as they are better than the defunct FSS 
The FSS suffered damage to its reputation following the failure to recover blood stains from a shoe in the murder of Damilola Taylor.[5] Further damage occurred when the FSS failed to use the most up-to-date techniques for extracting DNA samples in cases between 2000 and 2005.[6] This led the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to advise all police forces in England and Wales to review cases where samples had failed to give a DNA profile.[6]

[Jean-Pierre]

and maybe, just maybe since the cost of this investigation resurfaces, so do the 'sightings'.

Talk about deja vu.

Are you referring to the malta sightings, by any chance? 

[stephen25000]

Are you referring to the malta sightings, by any chance?

Not at all.

I am referring to the observation that when ever the case comes up in the news for what ever reason, 'sightings' invariably follow.

[Jean-Pierre]

Not at all.

I am referring to the observation that when ever the case comes up in the news for what ever reason, 'sightings' invariably follow.

ok - what recent sightings have there been - given the comments in the press

[Brietta]

Madeleine McCann: Mystery DNA tested to locate her kidnapper

    Oct 14, 2014 20:20
    By Gerard Couzens

Metropolitan Police proposing DNA tests on key samples that have been stored for seven years

New evidence: Madeleine McCann

Scotland Yard detectives probing Madeleine McCann’s disappearance are to propose new tests on mystery DNA that could belong to her kidnapper.

The Operation Grange team have been invited into the bunker where key samples collected from the holiday flat she vanished from are being held.

The Met Police officers plan to discuss new ways of analysing evidence held on file for the past seven years at a forensic science HQ in Coimbra north of Lisbon.

They are expected to focus on DNA found in Madeleine’s bedroom that does not belong to any of her family or workers at the Ocean Club holiday resort where she was staying who were tested at the time.

They hope modern-day technology could help them match the samples, described as “vague”, with DNA taken from three new suspects who were questioned in July.

Their visit to the National Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences comes 24 hours after they met Portuguese police chiefs in the Algarve capital Faro a four-hour drive away.

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood and two colleagues pressed for an quick response to their bid to do more background work on the three suspects during talks with local police chiefs Luis Mota Carmo and Ana Paula Rito.

New prosecutor Ines Sequeira, who has the final say about Scotland Yard’s fifth international of request, is expected to answer detectives in the next fortnight.

Mr Redwood declined to comment before being driven away from Faro police station in the back seat of a BMW hire car.

Asked about the new prosecutor and his hopes from the trip to Coimbra, he said: “I’m sorry but I’ve nothing to say.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccann-mystery-dna-tested-4438451

[Alice Purjorick]

Not at all.

I am referring to the observation that when ever the case comes up in the news for what ever reason, 'sightings' invariably follow.

Being naturally nasty and suspicious of nature I always wonder (not necessarily in the McCann case but this is indicative).
When a noise is made about a particular issue is it to hide something else that has happened / about to happen?
All the crap about sightings in Malta and Gozo (thought he was a Muppet with a big nose) et al was it to hide the Guardian article which raises interesting questions.

[Alfred R Jones]

If you seriously think anyone is trying to hide the guardian article you need to add a couple more adjectives to nasty and suspicious when describing yourself...I could make a suggestion but it will be removed

What Guardian article?  It must be so well hidden I've missed it!

[Jean-Pierre]

Maybe this is the one.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/13/madeleine-mccann-forensic-scientists-portugal

[Alfred R Jones]

Maybe this is the one.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/13/madeleine-mccann-forensic-scientists-portugal

Thanks J-P.  Why would anyone wish to hide this?  It 's good news, the investigation is progressing once more.