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

[misty]

Bump for misty.

Sorry, didn't see it before.
Taken to replace a missing child.
Straightforward kidnapping which was bottled due to intense media presence.
Azureblue's theory or something very similar.

None of those scenarios involve sexual predators,traffickers or burglars.

[Alice Purjorick]

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

No need to look at phone records then.
I understand Jim Caviezel and Mark Harmon wish to star in the TV version.

[pathfinder73]

Only a team of 4 have been working on this case for the last two years. They are working with the PJ on the one final lead so they should receive the funding to complete it.

[barrier]

Sorry, didn't see it before.
Taken to replace a missing child.
Straightforward kidnapping which was bottled due to intense media presence.
Azureblue's theory or something very similar.

None of those scenarios involve sexual predators,traffickers or burglars.

In that case then OG are jumping from pillar to post with Rowley not entirely ruling out the burglary gone wrong theory only as recently as April.

[Brietta]

In that case then OG are jumping from pillar to post with Rowley not entirely ruling out the burglary gone wrong theory only as recently as April.

Real life investigations unlike the fly in aspic one favoured by some ~ progress as the investigation progresses.  Nothing is ever set in tablets of stone.

If the police are asking for money they obviously consider they need it to continue their active investigation ... I for one do not visualise them "jumping from pillar to post" ... I visualise them following a definite line of inquiry.

All in my opinion but all a matter of common sense too.

[faithlilly]

Sorry, didn't see it before.
Taken to replace a missing child.
Straightforward kidnapping which was bottled due to intense media presence.
Azureblue's theory or something very similar.

None of those scenarios involve sexual predators,traffickers or burglars.

Surely if a couple was looking to replace a missing child ( though I don't recall this ever happening from an apartment while the parents were out ) they would have taken Amalie rather than Madeleine, who could tell people who she really was ?

[Angelo222]

Real life investigations unlike the fly in aspic one favoured by some ~ progress as the investigation progresses.  Nothing is ever set in tablets of stone.

If the police are asking for money they obviously consider they need it to continue their active investigation ... I for one do not visualise them "jumping from pillar to post" ... I visualise them following a definite line of inquiry.

All in my opinion but all a matter of common sense too.

If they had anything of substance there would have been arrests long ago.  I've never ever heard of a proper police investigation by proxy.  The entire thing is a sham imo.

[Brietta]

If they had anything of substance there would have been arrests long ago.  I've never ever heard of a proper police investigation by proxy.  The entire thing is a sham imo.

Doesn't it occur to you that they may know where she is ... but they may be unable to get to her?  In my opinion it is certainly one option.
I have never assumed any police investigation to be a 'sham'.  I think there is always a beginning - a middle - and an end.  Sometimes a good one sometimes a not so good one.

These guys are doing a job; I think it is wrong to denigrate what they are doing while they are doing it.

[G-Unit]

Police in the UK don't formally archive unsolved cases as happens in Portugal, they just leave them open. Any costs in connection to that will come from existing budgets.

Operation Grange isn't covered by existing budgets so any costs related to keeping it open will need to be provided by the Home Office.

My opinion is that the funds applied for and granted recently are more likely to be for the costs of keeping the case open rather than to cover active investigation. If a similar sum is applied for and granted my opinion will remain the same.

[Brietta]

Police in the UK don't formally archive unsolved cases as happens in Portugal, they just leave them open. Any costs in connection to that will come from existing budgets.

Operation Grange isn't covered by existing budgets so any costs related to keeping it open will need to be provided by the Home Office.

My opinion is that the funds applied for and granted recently are more likely to be for the costs of keeping the case open rather than to cover active investigation. If a similar sum is applied for and granted my opinion will remain the same.

You are arguing with yourself in my opinion

• on the one hand you state that any cold case costs are met within existing police budgets
• on the other you opine that Madeleine's case is a cold case which requires Home Office money

In my opinion one statement is incompatible with the other and makes no sense.

[stephen25000]

You are arguing with yourself in my opinion

• on the one hand you state that any cold case costs are met within existing police budgets
• on the other you opine that Madeleine's case is a cold case which requires Home Office money

In my opinion one statement is incompatible with the other and makes no sense.

It is tax payers money, sequested by others.

[G-Unit]

You are arguing with yourself in my opinion

• on the one hand you state that any cold case costs are met within existing police budgets
• on the other you opine that Madeleine's case is a cold case which requires Home Office money

In my opinion one statement is incompatible with the other and makes no sense.

Really? You can't see the difference between cases falling within the jurisdiction of the Met police and therefore funded via the normal channels and the McCann case which is not within their jurisdiction and is therefore funded seperately?

[G-Unit]

Doesn't it occur to you that they may know where she is ... but they may be unable to get to her?  In my opinion it is certainly one option.
I have never assumed any police investigation to be a 'sham'.  I think there is always a beginning - a middle - and an end.  Sometimes a good one sometimes a not so good one.

These guys are doing a job; I think it is wrong to denigrate what they are doing while they are doing it.

We had enough of that with the denigration of a Portuguese police force, didn't we?

[Alice Purjorick]

We had enough of that with the denigration of a Portuguese police force, didn't we?

I feel a George Mparrbe style response heading your way 

[Brietta]

Really? You can't see the difference between cases falling within the jurisdiction of the Met police and therefore funded via the normal channels and the McCann case which is not within their jurisdiction and is therefore funded seperately?

A cold case is a cold case ... and one cold case is equal to another.  The Scotland Yard case is under British jurisdiction.