The Bottom Line... "Psychic drawings 'are no help' to Madeleine family"
Philomena McCann said the rough sketches, which were drawn by a former American soldier who claims he is able to draw predictions from his dreams, had been investigated by the authorities.
"Those drawings have been checked out," she said. "It's nonsense, there's nothing in it. We must have had hundreds of things like that sent to us. We have been contacted by thousands of mediums from all over the world who claim to know something. There's nothing in it."
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/psychic-drawings-are-no-help-to-madeleine-family-28507588.html
When one thinks about it, the situation regarding Madeleine McCann's disappearance remained one of great mystery and there were those determined it would remain so.
Madeleine's case was closed in 2008.
In effect everyone but her parents had written her off very early after her disappearance in 2007 and there was no official ongoing investigation. Apart from that organised and kept going by her parents and the private detectives employed by them.
2023 represents changed days since those dismal days when her parent's lobbying resulted in Madeleine's case being looked at again and the volume of un-investigated circumstances prevailing, dictated a new investigation taking place.
Even at that and in full possession of the fact that there was work to be done which never had been done at any stage of the proceedings - there remained a viciously vociferous coterie who just did not want the disappearance of this missing child who had never been properly looked for, investigated and perhaps the discovery of what her fate might have been. Even to the possibility that she might still be alive.
Part of the evidence which was not investigated when Madeleine vanished was there all the time and always had been there.
The key to unlocking it was a name.
Quite extraordinarily the Portuguese police had been in possession of that name and that key since 2007.
So going from a "hopeless case" from the time of her disappearance until its tenth anniversary, we are at the stage when an active police investigation into Madeleine's case is fact. No mean feat!
I definitely think we have learned a lot over the years. And I think we will probably learn a lot more in the years to come.