You know they interfered
'Competing British police forces' harmed Madeleine McCann search
Relations with Portuguese authorities damaged as agencies fought to join investigation, says secret Home Office report
Relations with Portuguese authorities were damaged as UK agencies clamoured to get involved in the high-profile case, leading to warnings that Britain should not act as a "colonial power".
His unpublished report, which was commissioned by former home secretary Alan Johnson in 2009, also said the decision to put the McCanns' local force, Leicestershire constabulary, in charge of the operation was a mistake because it was ill-equipped to deal with such a wide-ranging investigation.
I totally agree and find it so sad that the PJ were simply not strong enough to withstand the weight of interference from the UK authorities. If only they’d been allowed to arrest and charge the McCanns back in the Summer of 2007 then we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. With the huge wealth of evidence against the McCanns such as the dog alerts, the Smith sighting, the jemmied shutters, the blood spatter, the strange body language, the video of them burying the body etc, they would certainly have been found guilty and left to rot in a Portuguese prison as they deserved. Meanwhile we could have been spending the last 17 years trying to solve some other terrible crime from our armchairs.