Has the search for Madeleine McCann ground to a halt?

[Mr Gray]

Care to expand on this?

No need to
SY reviewed the files and found points that had not been followed through
Like the phone traffic j

[Mr Gray]

None of this 'improperly investigated information' seems to have led anywhere, so perhaps it didn't need investigating in the first place.

Yes I suppose that's why the pj didn't bother to investigate it
They probably do it a lot
Why bother
Probably won't lead anywhere
The fact is that sometimes it does and that's why it has to be followed up

[jassi]

No need to
SY reviewed the files and found points that had not been followed through
Like the phone traffic j

Has that led anywhere ?

[jassi]

Yes I suppose that's why the pj didn't bother to investigate it
They probably do it a lot
Why bother
Probably won't lead anywhere
The fact is that sometimes it does and that's why it has to be followed up

Maybe they realised it was a non-starter from the begining.

[barrier]

Has that led anywhere ?

Cul-de-sac?

[ShiningInLuz]

No need to
SY reviewed the files and found points that had not been followed through
Like the phone traffic j

£11 million to check out people in Luz making phone calls to people in Luz?

Did they check out Gerry making calls to Kate?  No?

So a bit of non-substantiated PJ-slagging then.

[jassi]

Sounds like an £11 million  box ticking exercise to me.

[stephen25000]

£11 million to check out people in Luz making phone calls to people in Luz?

Did they check out Gerry making calls to Kate?  No?

So a bit of non-substantiated PJ-slagging then.

It seems, unfortunately, par for the course.

I dare say the PJ will  be blamed when the case is shelved again.

[jassi]

It seems, unfortunately, par for the course.

I dare say the PJ will  be blamed when the case is shelved again.

As none of these leads have led anywhere,  the PJ not investigating them can't have harmed the 'search'  IMO

[stephen25000]

As none of these leads have led anywhere,  the PJ not investigating them can't have harmed the 'search'  IMO

I agree, but we will still see the blame game.

[barrier]

I agree, but we will still see the blame game.

The updated version in the Mail has this to say.

Scotland Yard is chasing a critical lead it believes could crack the case and it is understood they have returned to a theory that burglars were involved

But the Portuguese police, who have previously accused the British of acting like a 'colonial power' in their country, say there is no evidence to back this up. 
Carlos Anjos, the former head of the country's Policia Judiciaria officers' union, said the Metropolitan Police's theory that Madeleine was taken in a botched burglary is 'absurd'. 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4702576/11-weeks-Madeleine-police-funding-runs-out.html#ixzz4n6iXxUbk

[Mr Gray]

The updated version in the Mail has this to say.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4702576/11-weeks-Madeleine-police-funding-runs-out.html#ixzz4n6iXxUbk

The funding runs out then and a decision will be made as to further funding

[ShiningInLuz]

That's not what I said
I said I know why it's cost so much as will anyone who has followed the case

I dare say there will be people in SY and the Home Office who know "exactly why it cost £11 million".

The idea that you do is unbelievable, in the literal sense.

[Alice Purjorick]

Cul-de-sac?

More like cul-de-canard, je pense 

[Mr Gray]

I dare say there will be people in SY and the Home Office who know "exactly why it cost £11 million".

The idea that you do is unbelievable, in the literal sense.

But I do
Don't you know why it has cost so much