Facts and figures on Operation Grange. Plus comparisons.
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FOI release published 28 November 2014. Home Office funding towards the investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann:
"The Home Office has provided The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) £1.9m in 2011/12, £2.8m in 2012/13 and £2.6m in 2013/14. We expect the costs for 2014/15 to be broadly in line with previous years."
In other words the funding for this fiscal year will be circa £2.4 million, meaning an eye-watering total spend by April 2015 of £9.7 million of public money - on just one missing person case; crime undetermined (if any); the event most probably having occurred in a foreign jurisdiction.
A total and complete waste of taxpayers money, when Police and crime investigation resources in the UK are being stretched to the absolute limit through Government cutbacks.
And (before any cultic fanatic tries to state the blinding, bleeding, obvious) if it was my child, lost through my own negligent and selfish activities in a foreign country, no I would not expect the UK public purse to fund an apparently unending investigation into the disappearance.
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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/west-mercia-police-murder-case-6838109The cost of murder: Force forks out £2.5m on just FIVE cases
Mar 16, 2014 11:34 By Nick McCarthy
West Mercia Police spend fortune in bid to track down killers and see justice done
A Midland police force has spent more than £2.5 million on just FIVE murder investigations in the last five years.
The cases were the most expensive investigated by West Mercia Police, according to figures obtained by the Sunday Mercury.
The most money spent was £900,000 on bringing three Birmingham killers to justice for the brutal killing of a sub-postmaster in January 2009.
The investigation led to the successful prosecution of the killers of Craig Hodson-Walker, murdered during a botched armed raid
West Mercia Police, who supplied the Sunday Mercury with the investigation costs, said the £878,000 spent on the police inquiry did not include the court costs, or the costs from other forces.
2 The second most expensive case was the investigation into the murder of a traveller from Surrey, whose body has never been found.
3 Another £271,000 was spent on the investigation into the killing of a convicted sex offender who died in a flat fire in Worcester in December 2011.
4 The force also spent more than £277,000 on hunting down Andrew Bayliss, who launched a fatal assault on Mohammed Arshad in his taxi.
Bayliss, from Kings Norton was jailed for a minimum of 30 years in 2011.
5 West Mercia Police also spent £257,000 on catching the man who murdered Betty Yates and the Rev John Suddards from Gloucestershire.
Birmingham-born former teacher Betty was found dead at her country cottage near Bewdley, Worcestershire, in January 2012.
APOLOGIES - I know this is a long article, but it does put into context how much is being spent, in real terms, on this utter farce. A major police force where their most expensive murder investigations average out at £0.5m apiece.
So the Met has already spent more than the equivalent of 20 murder investigations on one cold case in another country with a net result of no girl, no body and no arrests
Just to put it in perspective, that is roughly the cost of 1,500 hip replacements.
Edited to add - I have edited this article, please see original for full list.
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So how can anyone justify the money spent on OPERATION GRANGE , which has found ZIP ?
