McCann's poignant 2019 Christmas message to supporters.

[Angelo222]

An SY revue should be entertaining.

When the end game arrives, they will have to justify their expenditure.

[Mr Gray]

When the end game arrives, they will have to justify their expenditure.

I agree

[Mr Gray]

In other words 'What's going on? Tell me, tell me!' 

[Mr Gray]

Del

[barrier]

When the end game arrives, they will have to justify their expenditure.

To who?

[The General]

To who?

Probably some dubious, cursory Parliamentary Select Committee or 'public enquiry'.

[barrier]

Probably some dubious, cursory Parliamentary Select Committee or 'public enquiry'.

Well Rowley set it up nicely for some one.



Big cases can take a lot of resource and a lot of time and we have that with more conventional
cases which Scotland Yard gets involved with that run over many years. I think it’s worth noting that
this cold case approach we do, every year we’re solving cases that have gone cold years ago. I think
in the last year it’s 35 rape cases, and two murder cases. Some of those reaching back to the 1980s.
The cold case approach does have some expense, it is time-consuming, looking back at old records,
but it does help solve old cases and you give families and victims an understanding of what went on.
It’s worthwhile. This case is unusual, it’s not in Scotland Yard’s remit to investigate crimes across the
world normally. In this case, in 2011, the Portuguese and British prime ministers were discussing the
case and agreed that Scotland Yard would help and recognising that it’s not what we’re normally
funded for, we were given extra money to put a team together to work with the Portuguese and that’s
what we’ve been doing ever since. We’ve tried to be careful about public money and we started with
that massive sifting and we’ve narrowed the enquiry, the funding has reduced accordingly. And we
will stick with it as long as the funding is available, as long as there are sensible lines of enquiry to
pursue.