Summers & Swan - A new book - Looking For Madeleine

[G-Unit]

Is there a new edition of the Summers and Swan book?

[John]

Madeleine Police Probe More Break-Ins
Detectives are following a new line of inquiry, ahead of the eighth anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance.

By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent

British detectives searching for Madeleine McCann have discovered more of the holiday apartment burglaries they believe hold the key to solving the case.

They had been investigating 18 break-ins in which intruders entered the bedrooms of young, mostly British girls.

Now they are probing 28 such burglaries, Sky News has learned.

Forensic evidence is being tested against findings from the apartment from where Madeleine vanished eight years ago.

The development in the Scotland Yard investigation is revealed by authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan in a new edition of their recent book Looking For Madeleine.

Summers said: "Our source told us that after stumbling across 18 burglaries last year, they have now discovered a total of 28 in the area of Praia da Luz in the years around 2007 when Madeleine disappeared.

"It gives them a much better chance of matching evidence against forensics from the McCann apartment.

"I was told there was great sensitivity around this forensic testing, nobody wants to discuss it, but they are making progress and believe the case is solvable."

The author said in the past few days the Home Office had agreed to continue its controversial funding of the British investigation which has now cost more than £10m.

Summers said: "Officials meet the police every three months to review spending and only last week told them there was no financial or political pressure to cut back."

Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from the family's rented holiday apartment on 3 May eight years ago. It's thought she was abducted.

Portuguese police abandoned their investigation after 15 months without establishing any clues to the mystery and for three years there was no official search for Madeleine.

With Home Office backing, Scotland Yard began a review of evidence in 2011 and then launched a full-scale investigation two years ago.

The London branch leader of the police union the Police Federation said recently that funding of the investigation could not be justified in the wake of continuing public spending cuts which have hit all forces.

Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann have said they are "more driven than ever" to continue the search for their daughter.
http://news.sky.com/story/1476413/madeleine-police-probe-more-break-ins?

Is Sky News and Martin Brunt so starved of real news these days that they have to rehash old speculations taken from the Summers and Swan book which was authored ages ago?

By the way, has anyone found anything new in the book which promised new insights into the Madeleine disappearance?

[faithlilly]

Is there a new edition of the Summers and Swan book?

The paperback edition is doing out on the 7th I believe so Summers, it would seem, is yet again jumping on the nearest passing bandwagon to peddle is rather mouldy wares.

[jassi]

Oh how dreadful - someone trying to cash in on Madeleine McCann.

[faithlilly]

Oh how dreadful - someone trying to cash in on Madeleine McCann.

Truly shocking jassi ! 

[Miss Taken Identity]

Is Sky News and Martin Brunt so starved of real news these days that they have to rehash old speculations taken from the Summers and Swan book which was authored ages ago?

By the way, has anyone found anything new in the book which promised new insights into the Madeleine disappearance?

Errr No! nothing, not a jot. If it wasn't for a little girl being left alone in an unlocked apartment to be 'abducted' whilst her loving and caring parents were eating and drinking...they would have not be writing such a book... cha ching!! Money money Money...

[OxfordBloo]

Errr No! nothing, not a jot. If it wasn't for a little girl being left alone in an unlocked apartment to be 'abducted' whilst her loving and caring parents were eating and drinking...they would have not be writing such a book... cha ching!! Money money Money...

Nor would Amaral have had the chance to profit off the back of a tragedy.

It is rather satisfying that his immoral earnings have been removed from him and given to a fund which will try to make up for the failure of his police colleagues to solve the case in the first place.

No one should profit from this. At least the McCanns have donated each tranche of money to the fund year after year.

[Carana]

Journalism is a profession like any other and it generally generates an income. I have no problem whatsoever with responsible journalism.

[jassi]

Nor would Amaral have had the chance to profit off the back of a tragedy.

It is rather satisfying that his immoral earnings have been removed from him and given to a fund which will try to make up for the failure of his police colleagues to solve the case in the first place.

No one should profit from this. At least the McCanns have donated each tranche of money to the fund year after year.

So we are led to believe.

Can I asume from what you have written that you also  disaprove of Summers & Swan ?

[faithlilly]

Nor would Amaral have had the chance to profit off the back of a tragedy.

It is rather satisfying that his immoral earnings have been removed from him and given to a fund which will try to make up for the failure of his police colleagues to solve the case in the first place.

No one should profit from this. At least the McCanns have donated each tranche of money to the fund year after year.

And how do you know that Ox ? The truth is you don't, and neither do I. Who's to say that money has not changed hands for interviews etc ?

Your mask of neutrality is slipping Ox. Didn't take long, did it ?

[OxfordBloo]

And how do you know that Ox ? The truth is you don't, and neither do I. Who's to say that money has not changed hands for interviews etc ?

Your mask of neutrality is slipping Ox. Didn't take long, did it ?

It is a personal opinion, not a fact. I think that a police officer who misuses his position and privileged information should not profit from his endeavours. I also believe the same of the McCanns but I am happy that we have seen each libel award paid into the fund and no evidence that it has been used to lead a lifestyle above that of any other senior consultant. No expensive holidays, no expensive cars, no expensive jewellery, no sign at all of unusual expenditure.

[faithlilly]

It is a personal opinion, not a fact. I think that a police officer who misuses his position and privileged information should not profit from his endeavours. I also believe the same of the McCanns but I am happy that we have seen each libel award paid into the fund and no evidence that it has been used to lead a lifestyle above that of any other senior consultant. No expensive holidays, no expensive cars, no expensive jewellery, no sign at all of unusual expenditure.

Do you have any idea what the McCanns spend their money on because if not I'm afraid you are in no position to judge what ' unusual expenditure' would entail.

As to payments to the McCanns the libel payments, book revenue etc were all a matter of public record so there was no way of simply trousing those without some negative comment. However you can't exclude the possibility that the McCanns were also paid for interviews, photographs etc used by media outlets, can you ? You also have no way of knowing whether the couple have funnelled the extra money into property, squirrelled it away for another day or used it in a hundred different ways that would leave no outward sign of increased wealth. TBH with their refusal to pay €10 for a baby sitter and their acknowledged liking for the odd freebie the couple never did strike me as the type to throw their money about whether they had it or not.

[Alfred R Jones]

Now, if the S & S book was such a terrible flop with no one wanting to buy or even read it, why is it being released in paperback format...? &%+((£

[faithlilly]

Now, if the S & S book was such a terrible flop with no one wanting to buy or even read it, why is it being released in paperback format...? &%+((£

I'm sure it was part of the contract.

[OxfordBloo]

Do you have any idea what the McCanns spend their money on because if not I'm afraid you are in no position to judge what ' unusual expenditure' would entail.

As to payments to the McCanns the libel payments, book revenue etc were all a matter of public record so there was no way of simply trousing those without some negative comment. However you can't exclude the possibility that the McCanns were also paid for interviews, photographs etc used by media outlets, can you ? You also have no way of knowing whether the couple have funnelled the extra money into property, squirrelled it away for another day or used it in a hundred different ways that would leave no outward sign of increased wealth. TBH with their refusal to pay €10 for a baby sitter and their acknowledged liking for the odd freebie the couple never did strike me as the type to throw their money about whether they had it or not.

And equally you have no evidence that it has been used for enrichment.

What we can say is that the lifestyle of the McCanns differs little from other Doctors at that level, if anything involving fear expensive holidays or school fees or other signs of high expenditure.