In my opinion many of the 'Critical Leads' of the time appear to have been ignored by the investigating team responsible for chasing them up.
Nor in my opinion should it ever become the responsibility of the victims of crime to have to mount their own investigation and the more information which became available the more the investigative omissions which forced the McCanns to do just that became apparent.
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Gail Cooper reported the stranger to police four days after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and gave a statement at her home two weeks later, but the link wasn’t made between the mysterious stranger and the sightings of a man carrying a pyjama-clad child by Jane Tanner and the family of Martin Smith until a UK Sunday newspaper conducted a detailed review of the case, which was read by a member of the McCann team.
The question immediately arose that, if police working under the direction of DCI Amaral from Portimao had considered the theory that Madeleine had wandered from the apartment that night and been carried off by a passing stranger, surely a subsequent call to the public for reports of suspicious itinerants in the community would have started the search for this man sooner?
Danny Collins
VANISHED
Just as the newspaper review highlighted the deficiencies in the initial investigation into Madeleine's case necessitating the McCanns to join the dots with critical leads ignored at the time; Operation Grange discovered many other witnesses and leads which required investigation and justified reopening Madeleine's case.
The Home Office, Scotland Yard and the Portuguese authorities are the only ones who know exactly where the investigation has gone from there and in my opinion reliance on media rehashes is as pointless as its likely inaccuracy.
Better to wait for the official statement.
