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…
