Maddie case funding. McCanns anxiously await news from Scotland Yard.

[Brietta]

Indeed, more money which could be spent elsewhere on dwindling police funds.

You know ... or you should know ... money spent looking for the missing child does not come from policing budgets.

[Alice Purjorick]

The Mail on Line article? It seems we have heard it all before.
A literary agglomeration?
Well literary is maybe stretching a point.
Have we reached the end of the 195 investigative opportunities yet?

[stephen25000]

You know ... or you should know ... money spent looking for the missing child does not come from policing budgets.

The money comes from tax payers.

[Erngath]

The money comes from tax payers.

True but I don't mind my tax being spent looking for any missing child.

[stephen25000]

True but I don't mind my tax being spent looking for any missing child.

Would you like to supply a list of them in the UK, and how much public funding they have received to look for them ?

[Erngath]

Would you like to supply a list of them in the UK, and how much public funding they have received to look for them ?

No Stephen, I have no idea .
I just don't mind how much of the tax I pay goes to pay for looking for any missing child.
Now how much of the tax I pay goes to pay for the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace is of much more concern to me.
Perhaps a new thread elsewhere?

[stephen25000]

No Stephen, I have no idea .
I just don't mind how much of the tax I pay goes to pay for looking for any missing child.
Now how much of the tax I pay goes to pay for the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace is of much more concern to me.
Perhaps a new thread elsewhere?

I certainly agree with your latter sentence.

[barrier]

http://news.sky.com/story/madeleine-mccann-set-to-be-extended-as-police-ask-for-more-funds-11024595

From the sky article.

Early ideas about sex predators, child traffickers and "a burglary gone wrong" were largely dismissed before both detective teams joined forces to focus on the latest theory.

Kind of rules out third party involvement doesn't it?

[misty]

http://news.sky.com/story/madeleine-mccann-set-to-be-extended-as-police-ask-for-more-funds-11024595

From the sky article.



Kind of rules out third party involvement doesn't it?

No. There are other scenarios involving third parties.

[faithlilly]

No. There are other scenarios involving third parties.

Credible ones?

[Alice Purjorick]

http://news.sky.com/story/madeleine-mccann-set-to-be-extended-as-police-ask-for-more-funds-11024595

From the sky article.



Kind of rules out third party involvement doesn't it?

I found this bit significant:
"The money they are asking for is unlikely to be a large amount, effectively enough to keep a small number of detectives - three or four - on little more than a watching brief".
That kind of boots out any theory involving a "significant lead".
So what's coming up ? a thunderflash or a damp squib?

[misty]

I found this bit significant:
"The money they are asking for is unlikely to be a large amount, effectively enough to keep a small number of detectives - three or four - on little more than a watching brief".
That kind of boots out any theory involving a "significant lead".
So what's coming up ? a thunderflash or a damp squib?

IMO it means whatever is going to happen will happen outside the UK - which rules out the McCanns. Phone & computer records are probably key.

[Alice Purjorick]

IMO it means whatever is going to happen will happen outside the UK - which rules out the McCanns. Phone & computer records are probably key.

That rules out professionals then.

[misty]

That rules out professionals then.

Why? Communication could have been via the dark web - inaccessible to the police then but cracked by the experts of present day.

[faithlilly]

Credible ones?

Bump for misty.