I must say, having listened to the Andrew Pierce LBC discussion with former Met Commander John O'Connor and journalist Sonia Poulton in respect of the additional two million pounds allocated to the Madeleine investigation, I came away with the distinct impression that most of what was being said was more window dressing than factual based.
Sonia Poulton wasted a unique opportunity to put forward her own findings whilst O'Connor came across as badly informed and out of touch.
One comment stands out for me when O'Connor was asked why the Maddie case was awarded so much funding whilst others like the Needham's had to fight tooth and nail for it. His response was that there were no leads in the Ben Needham case whereas there were many in the Maddie case generated by the parents own investigators. But weren't the McCann's own investigators creating false leads and giving false hope simply in order to line their own pockets?
The bottom line is that there are no new leads in the Maddie case, the trail has gone stone cold. What SY are doing is raking over old coals in the hope that something new will turn up but that just hasn't happened. On what basis SIO DCI Nicola Wall has sought additional funding can only be speculated because there can be no doubt that she and her team are no further forward than the PJ were seven years ago.
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