HOPES DASHED? Madeleine McCann’s parents given ‘false hope" - Mark Williams-Thomas.

[carlymichelle]

 HOPES DASHED Madeleine McCann’s parents given ‘false hope’ by cops who claim they are chasing critical leads ex detective says

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley has said there are "significant investigative avenues" that are of "great interest"
By Lauren Fruen
27th April 2017, 12:32 am
Updated: 27th April 2017, 12:35 am


THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann have been given false hope by police who claim they are chasing critical leads, according to former detective.

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said he is following up “critical” leads on the tenth anniversary of the tot’s disappearance.

Former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas said police who claim they are chasing critical leads give the parents of missing Madeleine McCann false hope.

Next month marks ten years since little Maddie went missing

But former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, 46, has since revealed his “concern” over claims, The Daily Star reports.

Speaking ahead of the 10-year anniversary Mr Rowley said they are following up “significant” leads.

Asked if police were any closer to solving the case than they were six years ago when the UK investigation was launched, Mr Rowley said: “I know we have a significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing, and because it’s worth pursuing it could provide an answer, but until we’ve gone through it I won’t know whether we are going to get there or not.

“Ourselves and the Portuguese are doing a critical piece of work and we don’t want to spoil it by putting titbits of information out publicly.”
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said there are “significant investigative avenues” that are of “great interest”


Maddie disappeared in May 2007 while on holiday with her family in Portugal.

She vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz while her parents Kate and Gerry were dining nearby with friends.

When Kate returned to check on the kids at around 10pm that evening, she discovered that Maddie was not in her bed and was missing.


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3424229/madeleine-mccann-false-hope-police/

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[stephen25000]

HOPES DASHED Madeleine McCann’s parents given ‘false hope’ by cops who claim they are chasing critical leads ex detective says

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley has said there are "significant investigative avenues" that are of "great interest"
By Lauren Fruen
27th April 2017, 12:32 am
Updated: 27th April 2017, 12:35 am


THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann have been given false hope by police who claim they are chasing critical leads, according to former detective.

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said he is following up “critical” leads on the tenth anniversary of the tot’s disappearance.

Former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas said police who claim they are chasing critical leads give the parents of missing Madeleine McCann false hope.

Next month marks ten years since little Maddie went missing

But former police detective Mark Williams-Thomas, 46, has since revealed his “concern” over claims, The Daily Star reports.

Speaking ahead of the 10-year anniversary Mr Rowley said they are following up “significant” leads.

Asked if police were any closer to solving the case than they were six years ago when the UK investigation was launched, Mr Rowley said: “I know we have a significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing, and because it’s worth pursuing it could provide an answer, but until we’ve gone through it I won’t know whether we are going to get there or not.

“Ourselves and the Portuguese are doing a critical piece of work and we don’t want to spoil it by putting titbits of information out publicly.”
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said there are “significant investigative avenues” that are of “great interest”


Maddie disappeared in May 2007 while on holiday with her family in Portugal.

She vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz while her parents Kate and Gerry were dining nearby with friends.

When Kate returned to check on the kids at around 10pm that evening, she discovered that Maddie was not in her bed and was missing.


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3424229/madeleine-mccann-false-hope-police/

Good.

Someone with the gumption to say the obvious.

[carlymichelle]

Good.

Someone with the gumption to say the obvious.

 exactly   we knew in the next week the  media would  start spinning postive   stories about the mcanns didnt  we??

[stephen25000]

exactly   we knew in the next week the  media would  start spinning postive   stories about the mcanns didnt  we??

Yep and it hasn't finished yet.

[carlymichelle]

Yep and it hasn't finished yet.

it proves  people shouldnt believe everything the media tells them

[Mr Gray]

it proves  people shouldnt believe everything the media tells them

yet you are believing what this article in the media is saying

[John]

I agree with  Mark Williams-Thomas, these continual references to new lines of enquiry are baseless and have been consistently shown to be fruitless.  How many innocent people have now had their lives thrown into turmoil by these witch hunts?

The Met should admit they are beaten and stop tormenting the McCanns.

[Mr Gray]

I agree with  Mark Williams-Thomas, these continual references to new lines of enquiry are baseless and have been consistently shown to be fruitless.  How many innocent people have now had their lives thrown into turmoil by these witch hunts?

The Met should admit they are beaten and stop tormenting the McCanns.

don't agree at all...we don't know these leads will lead nowhere...they may well do but without hope helps people cope...it actually lessens the torment

[Eleanor]

don't agree at all...we don't know these leads will lead nowhere...they may well do but without hope helps people cope...it actually lessens the torment

Of course it lessens the torment.

[carlymichelle]

Madeleine McCann and the media


The most reported and discussed missing person case ever recorded is still not only a highly contentious mystery, but also a personal tragedy that has been turned into a public farce by elements of the media.

In the entirely predictable press frenzy surrounding the imminent 10th anniversary of the disappearance, much of the coverage, particularly in the British tabloids, has been farcical. But it should not be dismissed lightly.

Unable to come up with “news” on the case, the tabloids have been rehashing the same old speculation and guesswork.

“Could Madeleine McCann have been snatched by a lone paedo or simply wandered off?”

“She was sold to a rich family, says ex-cop.”

“New hope after decade-long search.”

“Experts say Madeleine McCann’s body is almost impossible to find.”

And then there was the much-touted Australian TV show that promised “a major breakthrough in the case”.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror took a slightly different tack with a story headlined, “What REALLY happened the night Madeleine McCann disappeared as nanny breaks her 10-year silence”.

The story did not explain what “really” happened, nor did it name the nanny or why she had remained silent for so long.

It quoted her as considering the McCann to be “the picture perfect family” and repeated the usual British criticism of the Portuguese police.

More surprisingly, she claimed that the resort from which Madeleine vanished was considered so unsafe that nannies were given rape alarms (whistles) and advised, “don’t go anywhere by yourself, ever”.

There was nothing to suggest the Mirror had tried to question or check this or any of the nanny’s other assertions, but, in Praia da Luz, they were viewed with derision. It was seen as yet another attempt to brand Praia da Luz as a den of iniquity, which it is not and never has been.

The official police files on the case contain nothing about rape whistles or alarms. None of the signed statements by child-care workers mentioned anything about suspicious goings-on or Luz being “unsafe”.

The manager of the Ocean Club where the McCanns were staying said in a police statement in 2007 that he had “no knowledge of any untoward situation involving Ocean Club users or in the village itself, other than some damage and minor thefts”.

The Mirror story was also a reminder that real journalism has to a large extent been replaced by ‘churnalism’, which disregards traditional standards of original news gathering based on impartiality and fact-checking for accuracy and honesty.

The nanny’s story was quickly recycled virtually verbatim on the internet by other tabloids. Even the broadsheet Daily Telegraph fell into line as did news services in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Trial by the media has had a huge influence on public perceptions about guilt or innocence in this case. Most of the mainstream media reports state as if it were a fact that Madeleine was “abducted”. Maybe she was. Maybe she wasn’t.

There is no certainty either about the other main theory, that her parents covered up an accidental death in the apartment.

Until solid evidence is found and the culprits are brought to justice, the public fascination with this case will continue to fuel and be fuelled by the media’s determination to churn out stories whose accuracy and agenda may sometimes be open to doubt.

The current avalanche of stories inevitably evokes the previous admission by Lord Bell, founder and former chairman of the Bell Pottinger public relations group, to columnist and author Owen Jones, that “the McCanns paid me £50,000 in fees to keep them on the front page of every single newspaper for a year, which we did”.

Nevertheless, “Maddie” helps circulation figures and makes money. Money, along with misinformation, has always played far too big a part in this case which, let’s remember, is about the tragic loss of a child.



http://portugalresident.com/madeleine-mccann-and-the-media

[Robittybob1]

one good point there " nor did it name the nanny or why she had remained silent for so long."

[John]

I think the only sensible comment recently has come from Paul Luckman, the editor of The Portugal News in Lagos, Portugal, who mentioned the 600 plus wells dotted all around the Luz area. The scope of such a search is nigh impossible and anyone secreting a body there would know that.  A terrible realisation for the parents of any missing child.

[Eleanor]

I think the only sensible comment recently has come from Paul Luckman, the editor of The Portugal News in Lagos, Portugal, who mentioned the 600 plus wells dotted all around the Luz area. The scope of such a search is nigh impossible and anyone secreting a body there would know that.  A terrible realisation for the parents of any missing child.

Well, they'll have to dig them all out, won't they.

[jassi]

Well, they'll have to dig them all out, won't they.

Who did you have in mind?

[Eleanor]

Who did you have in mind?

I'm not bothered really.  Although I don't suppose even you want Kate or Gerry to find the dead body of their child.