SnipA Scotland Yard spokesperson said: “You couldn’t get a more emotive case than this and
there is still work left to do."We asked for more funding for a final line of inquiry that is still being investigated.
"We can never say how close we really are for operational reasons, which could alert a suspect we are closing in.
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a request for more money would never have been made if there was nothing left to chase.
“We are grateful to the Home Office for approving our special grant request but we are not divulging how much we have been given.”
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SnipKate and Gerry hit back after a top ex-cop said solving the Madeleine riddle was “almost impossible” and the parents of two missing children slammed the Government for handing over more money for the high-profile hunt.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5962857/madeleine-mccanns-parents-kate-and-gerry-hit-back-at-critics-of-new-met-police-cash-to-track-down-missing-girl/A close pal of the couple said: “Kate and Gerry do not feel their daughter’s case should be given any more priority than any other missing child but
there is an active police investigation ongoing and officers still feel there is important work left to be done.“It’s not helpful and is very hurtful for retired police officers and in the past so called crime experts and other families to say the investigation should be wound up and is a waste of public money.
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Kate and Gerry believe there is a chance their daughter could still be found alive, as detectives do.“They have enough to deal with and don’t need people with no idea about the case being armchair detectives and hopes the criticism stops.
“It undermines the work of one of the best police forces in the world.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6056658/madeleine-mccann-cash-grant-150000-amber-rudd-secret-public-backlash/That was the situation in April this year ... seems clear enough to me that the police know exactly what they are about.
Sadly I believe there are those who may be less than happy with that and less than happy that it might be possible for Madeleine to be found.
I don't find it outwith the bounds of probability that SY and the PJ are hand in glove on this.