Timing was obviously all over the place with the priority being to get out there and look for the missing child.
By the 12th May Ian Herbert wrote in the Independent of apparent shortcomings in the gathering and collation of whatever evidence there was.
SnipThere is no telling how many clues have been under detectives' eyes all along but Stella Cash is certainly the kind of person who might have provided some. She was working at the Duke of Holland bar, 100 metres from the place where Kate McCann, Madeleine's mother, walked from the bar past the swimming pool, up her apartment's 10 stone steps and through the child gate to look in on her daughter at 10pm.
Several Mark Warner guests dined at Ms Cash's restaurant that night and she later drove home past the McCanns' corner apartment at 10.50pm but no police officer has questioned her about what she saw. "I don't think I saw anything suspicious but then I don't know what they might call 'suspicious'," she said. These are the individuals who form a vital part of an inquiry such as this, according to a serving detective chief superintendent who has put several child killers behind bars.
"You start by clearing the ground around your feet," he said.
"You need to know who has been in and out of every business near that scene."
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