Does the Madeleine McCann case warrant a Public Inquiry?

[Lace]

The Portuguese investigation is their business. The British investigation is our business.

At the moment they seem to be working together.

[Alfred R Jones]

The Portuguese investigation is their business. The British investigation is our business.

There would be no British investigation without Portuguese co-operation.

[G-Unit]

There would be no British investigation without Portuguese co-operation.

If they solve the case fair enough. If they don't I would like to know what happened. If the Portuguese want to know they can have their own inquiry.

[Alfred R Jones]

If they solve the case fair enough. If they don't I would like to know what happened. If the Portuguese want to know they can have their own inquiry.

You would like to know why they didn't solve the case?  Will you be requiring a public inquiry into the Ben Needham case if Ben is never found?  Or Claudia Lawrence's case if no one is brought to justice?  Where do you plan to draw the line in your insistence on knowing why some police investigations never gain resolution?

[Brietta]

If they solve the case fair enough. If they don't I would like to know what happened. If the Portuguese want to know they can have their own inquiry.

No doubt we will have a fresh set of PJ files to peruse at our leisure     if the case is archived yet again ... I am particularly interested in what the arguidos had to say.

[Brietta]

You would like to know why they didn't solve the case?  Will you be requiring a public inquiry into the Ben Needham case if Ben is never found?  Or Claudia Lawrence's case if no one is brought to justice?  Where do you plan to draw the line in your insistence on knowing why some police investigations never gain resolution?

Tut tut, Alfred.  This is Madeleine McCann we are talking about, and that is reason enough to have a public inquiry and when that is concluded why not a public inquiry into the public inquiry.

[Carana]

No doubt we will have a fresh set of PJ files to peruse at our leisure     if the case is archived yet again ... I am particularly interested in what the arguidos had to say.

Are there any arguidos established by the PT side?

[jassi]

No doubt we will have a fresh set of PJ files to peruse at our leisure     if the case is archived yet again ... I am particularly interested in what the arguidos had to say.

I think I might just be losing the will to live   

[G-Unit]

You would like to know why they didn't solve the case?  Will you be requiring a public inquiry into the Ben Needham case if Ben is never found?  Or Claudia Lawrence's case if no one is brought to justice?  Where do you plan to draw the line in your insistence on knowing why some police investigations never gain resolution?

I would like to know their reasons for deciding to investigate the McCann case if it doesn't get solved. I have no opinion those other cases as they don't have anything to do with the thread.

[Carana]

I would like to know their reasons for deciding to investigate the McCann case if it doesn't get solved. I have no opinion those other cases as they don't have anything to do with the thread.

They'd discovered a number of potential leads that either hadn't been fully investigated or hadn't been at all?

[Brietta]

Are there any arguidos established by the PT side?

No idea how it works, Carana.

If anyone had been likely to incriminate themselves while making a rogatory statement in Britain, would they have been given the right to have a lawyer present? 

I think the arguido status of people under which the latest interviews were conducted was mainly as a precaution by the Portuguese ...
(a)  to make sure everything was demonstrably above board 
(b)  to ensure interviewees legal right
I find it odd that giving the right to silence displaced having to answer every question asked, and looked more like angling for evidence for prosecution rather than seeking out what information might have been available to find Madeleine.

[Brietta]

I think I might just be losing the will to live   

                 

                              I hate having my hopes raised ... only to have them dashed   

[Brietta]

They'd discovered a number of potential leads that either hadn't been fully investigated or hadn't been at all?

I know that Police Scotland review cold case evidence on a regular basis.  Two of which have been recently solved and persons convicted.  Fresh eyes can spot something missed in the original investigation, witnesses may have come forward and advances in forensic investigation also can play their part.

Seldom are there as many loose ends to tie up as in Madeleine McCann's case ... and it must be remembered that information was collated from Portuguese police sources, British police sources, the McCann PIs and all supplemented by information coming in from public appeal.
Is it any wonder there was enough there to warrant a fresh investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

[Carew]

I would like to know their reasons for deciding to investigate the McCann case if it doesn't get solved. I have no opinion those other cases as they don't have anything to do with the thread.

.........Those "reasons" might also reveal why the comments about the McCanns and friends not being considered suspects and the possibility that Madeleine might not have been alive when she left the apartment, were made.

[G-Unit]

.........Those "reasons" might also reveal why the comments about the McCanns and friends not being considered suspects and the possibility that Madeleine might not have been alive when she left the apartment, were made.

Indeed they might.