Claim there was as a previous attempt at an abduction from 5a.

[Robittybob1]

There will always be a cost/benefit element when deciding what to investigate. If the PJ had investigated everything reported to them by the enthusiastic British public, no matter how tenuous the possible connection, Portugal would probably be bankrupt now. I think it's simplistic to suggest that all information is equally valid and worthy of spending time and resources on.

But these two sightings were for lone male in PDL.  I think that it would be fairly likely he was known to the public there.  I don't understand why that would be an expensive exercise to track this person down and see if he had an alibi for 3 May 2007.

[G-Unit]

But these two sightings were for lone male in PDL.  I think that it would be fairly likely he was known to the public there.  I don't understand why that would be an expensive exercise to track this person down and see if he had an alibi for 3 May 2007.

1. Interview Ms Hall themselves. Cost; flight/accommodation, officer's time.
2. Produce efit of suspect. Cost not known.
3. Find him. How? Lots of officer time involved here.

[jassi]

But these two sightings were for lone male in PDL. I think that it would be fairly likely he was known to the public there.  I don't understand why that would be an expensive exercise to track this person down and see if he had an alibi for 3 May 2007.

Why would you think that would be the case ?

[barrier]

But these two sightings were for lone male in PDL.  I think that it would be fairly likely he was known to the public there.  I don't understand why that would be an expensive exercise to track this person down and see if he had an alibi for 3 May 2007.

Its seems as if the last 4 arguidos were likely to be known locally,where did that get Grange?

[Alice Purjorick]

Its seems as if the last 4 arguidos were likely to be known locally,where did that get Grange?

Not alot farther than you could kick a lamp post without hurting yourself it would seem.

[Robittybob1]

Its seems as if the last 4 arguidos were likely to be known locally,where did that get Grange?

I'm happy with what they did.  In my theory there could have been an attempted burglary, they might have been involved in that but in my theory the burglars don't abduct Madeleine.  So if they deny having anything to do with Madeleine's abduction that is possible, but they might still have been the ones who raised the shutters and opened the window. But unless their finger prints matched there would be no proof.

[Robittybob1]

Why would you think that would be the case ?

It is a small local area where everyone knows what others are up to.

[misty]

When a child had gone missing & there were reports of people having been seen behaving oddly in the same locale during the previous weeks/months, it beggars belief that the Mills & Hall information was not given the same priority as the Flack/Silence/Tranmer sightings.

[G-Unit]

When a child had gone missing & there were reports of people having been seen behaving oddly in the same locale during the previous weeks/months, it beggars belief that the Mills & Hall information was not given the same priority as the Flack/Silence/Tranmer sightings.

I think you're being unrealistic. The UK police didn't appear to treat either women's information as urgent. The others you mention were near 5A during the right timescale.

Mrs Mills, from Basildon, Essex, contacted Leicestershire police, Mark Warner and the British Embassy in Portugal as soon as she heard Madeleine had gone missing, but again criticised the response, accusing officials of being uninterested.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1550955/Scruffy-man-seen-near-Madeleine-resort.html

[Robittybob1]

I think you're being unrealistic. The UK police didn't appear to treat either women's information as urgent. The others you mention were near 5A during the right timescale.

Mrs Mills, from Basildon, Essex, contacted Leicestershire police, Mark Warner and the British Embassy in Portugal as soon as she heard Madeleine had gone missing, but again criticised the response, accusing officials of being uninterested.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1550955/Scruffy-man-seen-near-Madeleine-resort.html

An article linked to that one http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1550732/Paedophile-abducted-Madeleine-police-say.html had a surprise "Police searching for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler abducted while on holiday in Portugal, fear she has been seized by a paedophile.

Officers have a prime suspect but were last night refusing to release any details, including a sketch, for fear of endangering Madeleine's life.
They believe the girl, whose fourth birthday falls this week, is alive and may be being held no more than three miles from where she was abducted. They fear they are now in a race against time to find Madeleine, known as Maddy, before she is murdered."

Were they already looking for this guy who had been hanging around apartment 5A?

[Eleanor]

I think The Police know who did it, and how, but they don't know where he is, or can't actually prove it, yet.

All in my not so humble opinion, of course.

[jassi]

It is a small local area where everyone knows what others are up to.

You are assuming that this mystery person is local.

[Robittybob1]

I think The Police know who did it, and how, but they don't know where he is, or can't actually prove it, yet.

All in my not so humble opinion, of course.

But isn't that the problem.  When the police "know who did it" but have no proof.   That implies they could be very wrong if that is the case.

[Robittybob1]

You are assuming that this mystery person is local.

I was for it seems to be the same person some weeks apart.  That is just about the definition of a local person.
I'm not saying he was involved with the McCann case but I do believe he needed to have been eliminated ASAP.

[Eleanor]

But isn't that the problem.  When the police "know who did it" but have no proof.   That implies they could be very wrong if that is the case.

That might depend on where Madeleine is and who she is with now.