As it is revealed that the latest ‘search’ of a reservoir connected to ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann has produced no new evidence, Matthew Steeples asks: “Isn’t it time to stop wasting vast sums and to simply close this case?”
“They do it almost every year for a free holiday to Portugal” was what what Twitter user surmised of news that the recent search of a reservoir near Praia da Luz has produced nothing in the search for what might have happened to ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann – a British girl who simply ‘vanished’ into thin air on 3rd May 2007.
Another, surmising the joke of an organisation that the Metropolitan Police – a force that couldn’t even work out what was wrong with its 999 line yesterday – truly is went further. They added: “Rumour has it that one of the police officers on Operation Grange now playing off single-figure handicap and welcomes pro-am invites.”
With further criticism ranging from “the extravagant interest in contrast to other case feels spurious” and “Portuguese police should take Kate McCann back to Portugal (without [the] organ grinder husband) to answer the police questions she refused to answer the night Maddie went missing,” here is a case most curious that has now cost the British public purse alone over £14 million ($17.8 million, €16.4 million or درهم65.5 million) via funds allocated to a London based crime room.
Reported as an ‘exclusive’ by The Sun yesterday under the headline “MADDIE ROADBLOCK,” the paper’s Aliki Kraterou suggested:
“Cops have spent the past two weeks analysing items discovered during the search in the Barragem do Arade reservoir in Portugal, 30 miles from where three-year-old Madeleine went missing.”
“Sources close to the case say none of the items have thrown up any new clues… Despite using some of the most high-tech forensic kit available none of the items have proved to be of use. It feels like a bit of a roadblock has been hit.”
Given that this three day “scour” of a reservoir has again produced no proof that the evil, vile rapist Christian Brueckner as having no provable link to this matter, isn’t it simply now time to reallocate the money wasted to actually searching for missing people capable of genuinely, actually being found?
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Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers… £14 million wasted on Operation Grange… Why continue? Why waste more? Why not help others?
Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:
- Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?
- Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?
- Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?
- Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?
- Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?
- Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?
- Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?
- Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?
- Why did Mr and Mrs McCann go jogging and play tennis in the days after their daughter’s disappearance?
- Was it acceptable for Mr and Mrs McCann’s mortgage to be paid by the fund established to search for their missing daughter?
- Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?
- Why, given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date, has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the very, very substantial rewards on offer?
The scene of the wasteful May 2023 search – Barragem do Arade reservoir near the town of Silves in the Algarve, about 25 miles (40 kilometres) from Praia da Luz where Madeleine disappeared aged three from her family’s holiday apartment on 3rd May 2007…
Missing Maddie – A story that simply does NOT make sense and a tale of a misallocation of resources when countless others remain missing…
If the Mccanns are innocent as they claim, why have they not taken up the offer from Dr Mark Perlin, who has developed certain software which can identify mixed DNA into the individual persons? He doesnt need the material, just the data. His work is highly prized and indeed Scotland Yard have employed his services in the past. His offer is free and could confirm or otherwise that the ‘MIXED’ dna found in the car they hired 3 weeks after her disappearance, included Maddie’s dna. Or not. Was that car used to carry Maddie’s body? Dr Perlin could prove yes or no.
There’s only one avenue that the Met should go down, but we know that they won’t – question the McCanns. But at this point they should just close Operation Grange down and focus on other things, unless new leads justify further inquiries.
It is said they took soil samples to compare with something found on Brückner’s VW van.
1. If it matched then the van had been there. BUT Brückner has already said this was one of his favourite places to go – (along with thousands of others, hence the women’s underwear found in the bushes.)
2. If it matched then it would only be of evidential value if Brückner could be shown NOT to have visited after May 2007, but even in that instance it still takes the case no further forward. (But we know he did)
3. None ofDit speaks to the core ‘problem’ in this case. Whish is that THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT MADELEINE WAS ABDUCTED. The only evidence is that the parents “REPORTED” her missing around 10pm on Thursday 3/5/7. There is no evidence that she was alive and well after Sunday lunch time 29/4/7
Of course nothing was found. No surprise whatsoever. Perhaps the McCanns would like to divert some money from their massive pot of funding to help others whose loved ones are missing or “taken”.
The company they keep really stinks!
[…] During a frank discussion, Brunt referenced how he will be in attendance for proceedings whilst Chaudri examined the issue of evidence in historic cases. Steeples, questioned by Bleksley, talked of his having met Gerry and Kate McCann via his involvement in the deservedly long ago shuttered Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT) charity and on behalf of other missing children asked: “Why don’t the cases of other missing people get nearly as much attention and nearly as much mon… […]