Feasibility Of Disposing Of A Small Child's Body In The PDL Area

[jassi]

Unless someone is intimately involved in the case how would any of us know what activity has been going on since 2014?  All we know is that the HO sanctioned further funding this year to the tune of 300k.

We do know that the manpower has been reduced to 4, not necessarily full timers.

[Holly Goodhead]

‘ How would a local know MM was home alone in the unsupervised apartment?
Forensic scientist Dave Barclay told Martin Brunt that some 500 paedophiles with links to the area had been ruled out‘.

It might have been a paedophile who was not a local/resident of the Algarve and whose DNA has not been captured on any database during the time. S/he might have simply observed over the course of a couple of days, a predictable pattern emerging as to the McCann’s movements. But then again, a local could have done the same.

It would need to be a paedophile who was able to gain intelligence first or second hand that MM was home alone night after night in the unsecured apartment. 

I don't know what the definition of a paedophile is in terms of the conversation Dave Barclay had with Martin Brunt?  Is it someone who maybe GHCQ/Interpol has intelligence on that has downloaded obscene images which I understand are graded from 1 - 5?  500 paedophiles in an area like PDL seems a worryingly high number if it amounts to those potentially prepared to abduct a child. 

[Holly Goodhead]

Which means that the tracking was fine until the dogs emerged onto R. Dr. F.G.M. There was wind, there were cars, there were lots of people around. I find it hard to believe that the dogs were able to follow a scent across the road to the lampost. I think you are placing too much reliance on these dogs.

But the point is they didn't scent outside the immediate vicinity.

[Holly Goodhead]

In the dark no problem at all. A bunker on a golfcourse is like a graveyard. It never changes as long the course is used.

And given the high profile nature of the case you think those tasked with managing the course on a professional basis would overlook such disturbance needed to bury a small child?

[Holly Goodhead]

We do know that the manpower has been reduced to 4, not necessarily full timers.

Yes I think I read 3 PC's and a sergeant so why 300k as this more than covers salaries and pensions?

[Eleanor]

Yes I think I read 3 PC's and a sergeant so why 300k as this more than covers salaries and pensions?

Surveillance.

[jassi]

Yes I think I read 3 PC's and a sergeant so why 300k as this more than covers salaries and pensions?

Creative accounting perhaps?

[Anthro]

Hi Holly, the intelligence you are referring to lies within observation itself.

[Holly Goodhead]

Surveillance.

Why didn't I think of that being a spy 

In theory I think the Brit police need the  from their foreign counterparts if they wish to carry out surveillance on turf outside UK.  I've no idea what the rules are about electronic surveillance: phones, computers, bank cards etc. 

[Myster]

And given the high profile nature of the case you think those tasked with managing the course on a professional basis would overlook such disturbance needed to bury a small child?

Bunker sand is usually no more than six inches deep at the base level.  Better by far to dispose of a body in one of the many unused wells which litter the Algarve... no digging required.

[Holly Goodhead]

Creative accounting perhaps?

Maybe.  Here's the pay scales:

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3349735/metfriendly-police-pay-scales-2018-2019.pdf

I guess 3 pc's, 1 sergeant and the gold plated final salary pension (linked to rpi I think) doesn't leave a great deal.  Certainly not much for further onsite visits and expert digs.

[Holly Goodhead]

Hi Holly, the intelligence you are referring to lies within observation itself.

Yes but those who were able to observe directly or gain the intelligence second-hand amount to a finite number of people and imo its these people who need putting under the microscope 

[Holly Goodhead]

Bunker sand is usually no more than six inches deep at the base level.  Better by far to dispose of a body in one of the many unused wells which litter the Algarve... no digging required.

Yes I agree but even venturing up to a well would surely leave some tell-tale forensics by way of earth disturbance, footprints, tyre marks?

OG has has so far had some 12/13 million over 8/6 years: 2011 - 2013 = review.  2013 - to date = operational.  I wouldn't mind betting every well has been visited and a camera/scanner inserted. 

[Holly Goodhead]

There will be no disturbance at all if you have the right equipment. The sand covers it. Just egalise  and no one will notice something was buried there.
Of course there are more places further away to dump her body.

A friend of mine buried his dog ( German shepherd) in a bunker. He lived near the golfcourse. The remains are still there and nothing has changed. That was in 1983.

Are you able to cite any cases where humans have been buried in bunkers on a golf course? 

[G-Unit]

But the point is they didn't scent outside the immediate vicinity.

You speak about these dogs as if they were infallible, which they weren't. On the other hand I fail to see their relevance on a thread about whether a dead body could be disposed of in and around Luz.