Yeah hidden in the Algarve I agree with. SY must be too quiet for their liking.
Madeleine McCann's mum Kate believes her daughter is still alive in the Algarve
00:19, 15 FEB 2016 UPDATED 00:19, 15 FEB 2016
BY PAUL HOOPER
She is convinced Madeleine never went far from the Praia da Luz resort where she was snatched in 2007 - despite thousands of reported sightings of her around the world
Kate McCann has revealed she believes missing daughter Madeleine is still alive in the Algarve.
She is convinced Madeleine never went far from the Praia da Luz resort where she was snatched on May 3 2007 - despite thousands of reported sightings of her around the world.
Launching a campaign to get a million people to sign up for missing child alerts, Kate said: “Praia da Luz is where I feel closest to her.
“That’s where she last was and I don’t think she’s been taken a million miles from there.”
As well as the scores of apparent sightings , other theories on the tot’s disappearance include that she might have been rushed out of Portugal and sold to a childless couple.
But Kate, 47, said that her and husband Gerry’s years of research has taught them that kidnapped children are not usually taken far away.
“It’s all only speculation, but we’ve learned that’s usually the case,” she said.
Kate is heading up a two-week drive to get a million people in the UK to register for free Child Rescue Alerts (CRAs).
Read more: Madeleine's parents still place presents in her untouched room
The scheme, funded by the Royal Mail, sends appeals to phones, computers, and tablets when a child vanishes.
Kate thinks if the scheme had been around back in 2007 then Maddie, aged three at the time, may have been found within hours.
“It’s nearly nine years and that’s so ridiculous and so unbelievable,” she said.
“You think ‘gosh that could have been hours, or a day’.
“If enough people had been mobilised and galvanised early then who knows what the outcome would have been.”
With Maddie’s 13th birthday approaching in May, Kate said: “Nine years. Time just goes too quickly. It’s the quiet times that are tough.
Times when you are thinking about her - or something related to her.”
Despite Scotland Yard’s probe into Madeleine’s abduction being scaled down , her parents insist they will continue to search for her.
Kate said: “The urge to look for Madeleine absolutely hasn’t changed at all.
“You hear all the time about people who have been missing for years being found.
Read more: Kate and Gerry to launch new appeal to find daughter
“We will never give up. You couldn’t settle if you thought about giving up.
“I want an end, an answer. Whatever that is.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-mum-kate-believes-7372654
Yeah hidden in the Algarve I agree with. SY must be too quiet for their liking.
Madeleine McCann's mum Kate believes her daughter is still alive in the Algarve
00:19, 15 FEB 2016 UPDATED 00:19, 15 FEB 2016
BY PAUL HOOPER
She is convinced Madeleine never went far from the Praia da Luz resort where she was snatched in 2007 - despite thousands of reported sightings of her around the world
Kate McCann has revealed she believes missing daughter Madeleine is still alive in the Algarve.
She is convinced Madeleine never went far from the Praia da Luz resort where she was snatched on May 3 2007 - despite thousands of reported sightings of her around the world.
Launching a campaign to get a million people to sign up for missing child alerts, Kate said: “Praia da Luz is where I feel closest to her.
“That’s where she last was and I don’t think she’s been taken a million miles from there.”
As well as the scores of apparent sightings , other theories on the tot’s disappearance include that she might have been rushed out of Portugal and sold to a childless couple.
But Kate, 47, said that her and husband Gerry’s years of research has taught them that kidnapped children are not usually taken far away.
“It’s all only speculation, but we’ve learned that’s usually the case,” she said.
Kate is heading up a two-week drive to get a million people in the UK to register for free Child Rescue Alerts (CRAs).
Read more: Madeleine's parents still place presents in her untouched room
The scheme, funded by the Royal Mail, sends appeals to phones, computers, and tablets when a child vanishes.
Kate thinks if the scheme had been around back in 2007 then Maddie, aged three at the time, may have been found within hours.
“It’s nearly nine years and that’s so ridiculous and so unbelievable,” she said.
“You think ‘gosh that could have been hours, or a day’.
“If enough people had been mobilised and galvanised early then who knows what the outcome would have been.”
With Maddie’s 13th birthday approaching in May, Kate said: “Nine years. Time just goes too quickly. It’s the quiet times that are tough.
Times when you are thinking about her - or something related to her.”
Despite Scotland Yard’s probe into Madeleine’s abduction being scaled down , her parents insist they will continue to search for her.
Kate said: “The urge to look for Madeleine absolutely hasn’t changed at all.
“You hear all the time about people who have been missing for years being found.
Read more: Kate and Gerry to launch new appeal to find daughter
“We will never give up. You couldn’t settle if you thought about giving up.
“I want an end, an answer. Whatever that is.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/madeleine-mccanns-mum-kate-believes-7372654
Some news must be due out....
So the McCann's believe Madeleine is still in the Algarve. What possible difference could a child rescue alert have made in her case therefore? Half an hour after she was discovered missing people were out searching the town. The following day the world was informed by the media. Without needing to sign up to an alert system, everyone in the Algarve knew about the child by the following day. Being told by text the night before would have achieved nothing. Would all residents of the Algarve rushed out of their homes at midnight and started searching around? Of course not, they would have done what they did; keep their eyes open during the following days.
So the McCann's believe Madeleine is still in the Algarve. What possible difference could a child rescue alert have made in her case therefore? Half an hour after she was discovered missing people were out searching the town. The following day the world was informed by the media. Without needing to sign up to an alert system, everyone in the Algarve knew about the child by the following day. Being told by text the night before would have achieved nothing. Would all residents of the Algarve rushed out of their homes at midnight and started searching around? Of course not, they would have done what they did; keep their eyes open during the following days.
I think you have to be signed up in order to receive these emails, so not much use if you haven't done so.
So the McCann's believe Madeleine is still in the Algarve. What possible difference could a child rescue alert have made in her case therefore? Half an hour after she was discovered missing people were out searching the town. The following day the world was informed by the media. Without needing to sign up to an alert system, everyone in the Algarve knew about the child by the following day. Being told by text the night before would have achieved nothing. Would all residents of the Algarve rushed out of their homes at midnight and started searching around? Of course not, they would have done what they did; keep their eyes open during the following days.Gunit you have badly let yourself down with that response. I have always found you intelligent enough previously even if always refusing to see anything from the Mccann and Justice point of view.
Gunit you have badly let yourself down with that response. I have always found you intelligent enough previously even if always refusing to see anything from the Mccann and Justice point of view.
To say, " What possible difference could a child rescue alert have made in her case therefore? Half an hour after she was discovered missing people were out searching the town." is not a thoughtful comment.
The golden hours are the couple of hours or so immediately after the event. The abductor and Madeleine might still be in the vicinity, and MEMORIES ARE FRESH.
How do you know that everyone knew about Madeleines disappearance immediately afterwards? You dont. I would like to bet that it was several days before some people knew.
It is more than quite possible that Madeleine had been moved to a neighbouring town , or en route somewhere at the time she was noticed missing.
With an alert system, people would be aware and looking rather than simply seeing and it not registering. Also it would have got more out and more people remembering events from the minutes before.
Gunit you have badly let yourself down with that response. I have always found you intelligent enough previously even if always refusing to see anything from the Mccann and Justice point of view.
To say, " What possible difference could a child rescue alert have made in her case therefore? Half an hour after she was discovered missing people were out searching the town." is not a thoughtful comment.
The golden hours are the couple of hours or so immediately after the event. The abductor and Madeleine might still be in the vicinity, and MEMORIES ARE FRESH.
How do you know that everyone knew about Madeleines disappearance immediately afterwards? You dont. I would like to bet that it was several days before some people knew.
It is more than quite possible that Madeleine had been moved to a neighbouring town , or en route somewhere at the time she was noticed missing.
With an alert system, people would be aware and looking rather than simply seeing and it not registering. Also it would have got more out and more people remembering events from the minutes before.
There's no way of knowing whether a similar system might have helped in Madeleieine's case. It might certainly have improved the chances of someone spotting her possibly kilometres away shortly afterwards.
In any event, the alert could prove a lifesaver for numerous other children.
Thank you for the backhanded compliment Sadie.Madeleine was abducted between 9.35pm and 10.00pm
If Madeleine was abducted it was between 9.15pm and 10.55pm. The police were called at 10.41pm and the GNR arrived at 11pm. Your couple of 'golden hours' are nearly gone now. Any alert would have been issued by the PJ, who arrived much later. I would say 2am at the earliest, if they thought it fulfilled the criteria, which I doubt. Only those who had signed up would get an alert. Most of them would have been asleep by then. The following day the TV, newspapers, etc were full of it. If you want to believe it could have made a difference, feel free, I do not.
Thank you for the backhanded compliment Sadie.
If Madeleine was abducted it was between 9.15pm and 10.55pm. The police were called at 10.41pm and the GNR arrived at 11pm. Your couple of 'golden hours' are nearly gone now. Any alert would have been issued by the PJ, who arrived much later. I would say 2am at the earliest, if they thought it fulfilled the criteria, which I doubt. Only those who had signed up would get an alert. Most of them would have been asleep by then. The following day the TV, newspapers, etc were full of it. If you want to believe it could have made a difference, feel free, I do not.
Madeleine was abducted between 9.35pm and 10.00pm
Matt ran to the receptionj and asked them to ring the police at 10.10pm - 10.15pm. Reception messed up and it seems failed to ring the police until 10.41pm. Hells bells! ....Approx 30 minutes wasted by reception!!!
Why not notify people who are signed up immediately the Police,[ what ever branch], are notified?
Grab those golden hours.
Given immediate action by reception, then as soon as they heard about it a simple alert could have been given out within five minutes, by 10.20pm. Lots of people would have caught the message then ... and memories would be fresh.
Many more would have turned out for the search and people along the route she travelled would have properly LOOKED out... registered anything they saw and notified the police [if they dared 8(8-))]
The receptionist never mentioned seeing Matthew (twice; 10,10pm and again later) or Gerald although both are said to have gone there. He phoned when asked to by the Manager, John Hill.With such a major error, did they have tio cover their backs?
The alerts in the UK are not issued when a phone call is received, so that's just wishful thinking/fantasy on your part.
So the McCann's believe Madeleine is still in the Algarve. What possible difference could a child rescue alert have made in her case therefore? Half an hour after she was discovered missing people were out searching the town. The following day the world was informed by the media. Without needing to sign up to an alert system, everyone in the Algarve knew about the child by the following day. Being told by text the night before would have achieved nothing. Would all residents of the Algarve rushed out of their homes at midnight and started searching around? Of course not, they would have done what they did; keep their eyes open during the following days.What nonsense. What evidence do you have that in less than 24 hours the whole of the Algarve knew that a little English girl was missing or what she looked like?
With such a major error, did they have tio cover their backs?
Had reception taken notice and done the right thing, who knows what the golden hours might have produced?
Especially had the Alert system been in effect.
MORGAN: Do you both 100 percent believe she's still alive? Or do you have to believe that?
K. MCCANN: I don't think -- I don't think we can say 100 percent. I mean, you know, we're realistic. We know that there is a chance that she may not be alive. But what we do know is there's a very good chance that she's alive. And there's certainly nothing to suggest otherwise.
And as you know, as well as many children who are found years down the line, they could have been written off, you know. And then they were found. So it would be wrong -- you know, it is wrong to give up on children who are still missing.
http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/11/pmt.01.html
In the absence of any evidence whatsoever to the contrary ... Madeleine deserves the assumption that she is alive and may be recovered. Until such time as Scotland Yard and the Policia Judiciaria come to the end of the leads they are presently following the investigation should continue unimpeded.
What nonsense. What evidence do you have that in less than 24 hours the whole of the Algarve knew that a little English girl was missing or what she looked like?There is no evidence that 'the whole of the Algarve' knew...
There is no evidence that 'the whole of the Algarve' knew...Not having it certainly wouldn't change anything, having it might, no guarantees, but surely something is better than nothing?
There is no evidence that an Amber alert would have put the whole of the Algarve on lookout within 24 hours.
I wasn't here at the time of the incident. I look at the news infrequently. I have not signed up to the Amber alert scheme, in fact, I'm not sure that I have the facilities to do so. Unless someone banged on my door, I probably wouldn't find out until later, but I am not in a prime location to intercept nefarious deeds in such an incident.
Who knows whether it would have made a difference or not? Aside from whoever 'dunnit'?
Not having it certainly wouldn't change anything, having it might, no guarantees, but surely something is better than nothing?Something always costs something, it does not come free.
MORGAN: Do you both 100 percent believe she's still alive? Or do you have to believe that?
K. MCCANN: I don't think -- I don't think we can say 100 percent. I mean, you know, we're realistic. We know that there is a chance that she may not be alive. But what we do know is there's a very good chance that she's alive. And there's certainly nothing to suggest otherwise.
And as you know, as well as many children who are found years down the line, they could have been written off, you know. And then they were found. So it would be wrong -- you know, it is wrong to give up on children who are still missing.
http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/11/pmt.01.html
In the absence of any evidence whatsoever to the contrary ... Madeleine deserves the assumption that she is alive and may be recovered. Until such time as Scotland Yard and the Policia Judiciaria come to the end of the leads they are presently following the investigation should continue unimpeded.