When was the last official MET Police statement on Madeleine abduction?

[Heriberto Janosch]

Many people consider this the last official MET Police statement on Madeleine abduction:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/exclusive-met-identify-new-leads-in-hunt-for-madeleine-mccann-and-urge-the-portuguese-to-act-8620704.html

Justin Davenport, Crime Editor

17 May 2013

Scotland Yard has identified a number of potential suspects who may have abducted Madeleine McCann, the force’s top detective revealed today.

Investigators carrying out a review of the case have drawn up a list of people who they say are “of interest” to the inquiry.

Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, the head of Scotland Yard’s Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said there were a “good number” of individuals who should be questioned.

Today he urged the Portuguese authorities to investigate the new leads identified by the British review.

DCS Campbell, speaking on the eve of his retirement from the Met, said:  “There are a lot of people of interest. There are people who could be properly explored further, if only to be eliminated.”

He refused to give numbers but said there was “more than a handful” of names of “people of interest”.

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in 2007 as her parents Kate and Gerry McCann dined with friends near-by.

The official Portuguese inquiry was shelved in 2008 but Scotland Yard launched a review of the case in 2011 after David Cameron responded to a plea from Madeleine’s parents.

Last year the review team led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood said it had identified 195 potential leads after examining a huge bundle of material.

Today DCS Campbell said the 30-strong review squad had done a “fantastic” job in identifying “further investigative and forensic opportunities.”

He said it was “perfectly probable” that information which could identify the suspect responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance was already within the Portuguese files.

He added: “We have to ask ourselves why are cases unsolved and, on many occasions, we find we passed the suspects by already and the suspect sits within our system.”

DCS Campbell said there were a “good number” of people who could be interviewed and eliminated to allow investigators to focus on a smaller group.

Detectives from the Yard’s team have travelled to Portugal around 10 times to liaise with the authorities there and gather evidence in an inquiry which has cost more than £2 million.

So far, Portugal’s attorney general has ruled out a new inquiry into Madeleine’s disappearance but the comments from the senior Yard detective will raise hopes of a fresh investigation.

DCS Campbell said: “The Portuguese hopefully will pursue some of these investigative opportunities with our assistance. There is room for further work and collaboration to resolve the case.”

He re-iterated a claim that Madeleine could still be alive. He said: “You only have to look at the case in Cleveland, Ohio, and the European cases. Of course, there is a possibility she is alive, you cannot exclude it. But the key is to investigate the case and, alive or dead, we should be able to try and discern what happened.”

He added: “The purpose of the review is to look at it with fresh eyes…there has been real benefit in doing it.”

Also, Hamisch Campbell would said on a radio May 17th. 2013 morning (I do not find the reference now, anybody has it?) that original (Portuguese?) investigation was "atrocious". We were talking on diplomacy yesterday, ferryman and Carana?

I do not consider Hamish Campbell statement to be an official one by MET police. But his statement desperated the press which began to search in their files for old "news" ... 

What do you think?

[Carana]

Also, Hamisch Campbell would said (I do not find the reference now, anybody has it?) that Portuguese investigation was "atrocious". We were talking on diplomacy yesterday, ferryman and Carana?

I do not consider Hamish Campbell statement to be an official one by MET police. But his statement desperated the press which began to search in their files for old "news" ... 

What do you think?

The alleged "atrocious" comment seems to have originated from a blog. I have never read, seen or heard anything to substantiate that he said anything of the kind.

[Heriberto Janosch]

:)

[Heriberto Janosch]

Carana, Truthiness2 heard Hamish Campbell in the radio saying "atrocious" ...

http://stopthemyths.prophpbb.com/topic5238-25.html#p170326

[sadie]

Truthi is very truthful.  She heard it alright.



SY told me that this case was the biggest in the World.  I guess they meant number of officers, time taken, money spent, world interest? .... dunno

I wonder if like in the Jimmy Savile case, they are looking at a broader spectrum?  In this case including not only the abductor and associates but also including child / slave trafficking and maybe drug trafficking.  I have no reason for wondering this, apart from PT being a major destination of major drug routes.

I forget the figures now, but they have a very high percentage of all the drugs worldwide coming thru their borders en route for the rest of Europe.  Both of the cannabis type from the nearby Rif mountains in Northern Morocco, and of the hemp kind coming from IIRC. S America especially,   I posted the figures on pfa2, now sadly gone.


Of course, the Portuguese were brilliant navigators and seamen.  They were amongst the first to visit S America and Africa.  Our own Scots and Brits were pretty good seamen as well, they were not innocent, certainly of slave trading 


If you visit Liverpool docks, there is a slave trading museum there.  Well worth a visit if you are able.



Gawd, I have diversified.  Sorry.

[Heriberto Janosch]

Truthi is very truthful.  She heard it alright.



SY told me that this case was the biggest in the World.  I guess they meant number of officers, time taken, money spent, world interest? .... dunno

I wonder if like in the Jimmy Savile case, they are looking at a broader spectrum?  In this case including not only the abductor and associates but also including child / slave trafficking and maybe drug trafficking.  I have no reason for wondering this, apart from PT being a major destination of major drug routes.

I forget the figures now, but they have a very high percentage of all the drugs worldwide coming thru their borders en route for the rest of Europe.  Both of the cannabis type from the nearby Rif mountains in Northern Morocco, and of the hemp kind coming from IIRC. S America especially,   I posted the figures on pfa2, now sadly gone.


Of course, the Portuguese were brilliant navigators and seamen.  They were amongst the first to visit S America and Africa.  Our own Scots and Brits were pretty good seamen as well, they were not innocent, certainly of slave trading 


If you visit Liverpool docks, there is a slave trading museum there.  Well worth a visit if you are able.



Gawd, I have diversified.  Sorry.

That is why I do not consider English investigators good and Portuguese investigators bad ... It is wrong ... We have Lowe and Paulo Días, we have Amaral and Grime ... 

Heri.

 

[sadie]

Erm, Heri

How do you deduce that from what I have written?  >@@(*&)

[ferryman]

That is why I do not consider English investigators good and Portuguese investigators bad ... It is wrong ... We have Lowe and Paulo Días, we have Amaral and Grime ...

Can't ague with that, Heri ...

[Mrs. B]

No, I'd say that's generally true, but still, one cannot help but noticing the high number officers either charged or convicted for serious criminal offences within Amaral's investigative team.

ETA Offences, not offices - auto spell checker driving me up the wall 

[DCI]

No, I'd say that's generally true, but still, one cannot help but noticing the high number officers either charged or convicted for serious criminal office within Amaral's investigative team.

And at least 3 writing books, on the case. 

[Heriberto Janosch]

Erm, Heri

How do you deduce that from what I have written?  >@@(*&)

Your comment about the reliability of Truthiness2 and her comment on Hamish Campbell, lead me to talk on English and Portuguese investigators in general ...

Heri 

[Redblossom]

What is is thread about? Unless anyone can come up with proof that Campbell said the Portuguese investigation was atrocious, its hearsay and probably false

We have had more respected people like Professor Barclay saying the police did a pretty good job and there was the possibility the abduction was staged

God forbid that anyone should suggest that, they must be the devils spawn, fact is many alleged child abductions are staged events, those are the facts, doesn't mean they are in this case but there is nothing to say they aren't.