The Madeleine McCann Missing Thread

Do you think Madeleine McCann died in the family's holiday apartment?

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MADELEINE MCCANN POLICE SEEK LONE SEX ATTACKER

Detectives investigating the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann in Portugal said Wednesday they were looking for a lone intruder who sexually abused four girls during break-ins at holiday homes.

The tanned, dark-haired man is suspected of breaking in to 12 properties where British families were staying in the Algarve between 2004 and 2010, the Metropolitan Police said.

In four of the incidents, girls aged between seven and 10 were sexually assaulted.

The attacks happened between 2004 and 2006, before Madeleine vanished from a holiday apartment in 2007, days before her fourth birthday.

Her parents were dining with friends at a nearby restaurant at the time.

Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood said tracing the man, who is said to have "an unhealthy interest in young white female children", was one of his priority lines of inquiry.

His team currently has 38 people classed as "persons of interest" and is also sifting through details of 530 known sex offenders whose whereabouts cannot be accounted for.

Of those 59 are classed as high priority, and some are British.

Portuguese authorities closed their investigation into Madeleine's disappearance in 2008, but the Metropolitan Police spent two years reviewing the evidence at the British government's request and opened their own probe in July last year.

The girl's parents Gerry and Kate McCann have never given up their campaign to find Madeleine.


Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 19 Mar 2014 14:30
 
IMO the reason she hasn't been found is because the Porra police are just as useless as ours if not worse in some ways.
 
What is very frustrating is that they have a new theory every week! It always ends in nothing.

Grasping at straws.
 
UK POLICE PROBING MORE BREAK-INS IN MCCANN CASE

British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann say they are looking into more cases involving sexual assaults on children in the area where the girl, then 4 years old, vanished.

Police say all 18 potentially linked cases involve a male intruder into holiday villas occupied by British families vacationing in Portugal's Algarve region between 2004 and 2010. Some of those incidents involved sexual assaults on children.

Madeleine was reported missing in May 2007 from her family's resort apartment in Praia da Luz on Portugal's south coast. Her disappearance remains unsolved.

Last month police said a suspect may have been responsible for 12 cases of intrusions and assaults on children in the Algarve. Police said Wednesday further inquiries have identified six more cases.


Source : Sapa-AP /gm
Date : 23 Apr 2014 15:19
 
British police leading the hunt for Madeleine McCann have been given permission to start digging at the resort in Portugal where she disappeared, it has been claimed.

Specialist search teams will scour sites across the Praia da Luz holiday resort where she disappeared seven years ago, shortly before her fourth birthday, according to Sky News.

Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann - who have never given up hope that she could still be alive - have already been briefed by Scotland Yard on the plan.

Detectives believe the grim searches, possibly to coincide with the first arrests of suspects, are the next logical step in their multi-million pound inquiry.

Forensic officers will use ground penetrating radar to uncover sites where earth has been disturbed within the last decade.

They will then move in with mechanical diggers and other earth moving equipment, as well as conducting finger-tip searches.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tuguese-resort-disappeared.html#ixzz30wCwTklv
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Soooo what ever happened to the south african who used ground penetrating machines and found something on under a suspects driveway, that was about a year or more ago?
 
BRITISH POLICE TO BEGIN 'ACTIVITY' IN MADELEINE MCCANN SEARCH

British police investigating the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann at a Portuguese holiday resort said on Tuesday that search "activity" would begin in the next few weeks.

The disclosure from the Metropolitan Police comes after reports that British police want to use radar equipment to search land close to the apartment complex in Praia da Luz where Madeleine disappeared in 2007.

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said activity would occur in "forthcoming weeks", but he was unable to give more details.

In a letter to editors, he urged the British media to avoid speculation about excavation work and to "think carefully" about information they published despite the high interest in the case.

Rowley warned that Portuguese police did not provide the media with regular updates on investigations, and that any activity in Portugal would be halted if police in Britain gave out information to the media, or if journalists disrupted the search.

The announcement came almost seven years to the day after the British girl's disappearance.

Her parents Kate and Gerry have never given up hope that their daughter is alive.

In March, British detectives said they were looking for a paedophile who sexually abused five girls during break-ins at holiday homes between 2004 and 2010 in the Algarve region of southern Portugal where Praia da Luz is located.

The man is suspected of breaking in to 12 properties where British families were staying.

Madeleine vanished just days before her fourth birthday in May 2003 from the bedroom of a holiday apartment while her parents dined in a nearby restaurant with friends.

Portuguese police officially closed their investigation in 2008, which at times proved controversial, especially after they indicted the girl's parents in connection with her disappearance.

After a high-profile campaign by her parents, British authorities began their own investigation in 2013.

On Saturday, a prayer service was held in the McCanns' home village of Rothley, near Leicester in central England.

Around 100 people attended the open-air service in the village centre, in which candles were lit for all children taken away from their parents.

Gerry McCann expressed his gratitude for the police investigation, which he said was now moving on to a "very active" phase.

"They are chipping away and obviously there is new evidence so we are going to continue to hope that we will get a happy outcome," he said.

In a message posted Saturday on the official website dedicated to finding their daughter, Kate McCann said: "Our situation seems as unbelievable as it did that very first night without Madeleine.

"Whenever I find myself becoming paralysed with disbelief, unease, frustration or sadness, I have to refocus my mind on the positives, of which there are many.

"The Metropolitan Police force continue to make encouraging progress in their investigation with new evidence being uncovered, fresh information coming in to the inquiry following appeals and, subsequently, links being made between people and events."


Source : Sapa-AFP /mjs
Date : 06 May 2014 20:30
 
POLICE PREPARE FOR SEARCH IN MADELEINE MCCANN CASE

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cordoned off Monday an area of scrubland near where the British girl vanished seven years ago.

Officers placed yellow-and-white police tape around the waste ground, which is mostly level and slightly larger than a soccer field, and were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area in coming days. Officials have previously said detectives may use excavators, dogs and ground-penetrating radar as they scrutinize the terrain.

Officials made no immediate comment on Monday's developments. Cases that are under investigation in Portugal are covered by a judicial secrecy law, which forbids the release of information.

The scrubland is about 300 meters (330 yards) from the Praia da Luz resort in southern Portugal where Madeleine vanished from her family's vacation apartment in May 2007, shortly before her fourth birthday. The area was searched in the days following her disappearance.

Authorities in Portugal and Britain said recently they would conduct new searches in coming weeks after reviewing the case file and a new public appeal for information.

Portuguese police closed the case in 2008 because authorities had detected no crime. The public prosecutor's office in Lisbon last year reopened the investigation, saying new leads emerged during the case review though it did not elaborate.

British police launched Operation Grange in 2011 to try to find out what happened to Madeleine. British detectives have been sifting through the Portuguese case files and say they have identified new avenues of investigation. Among other things, they have compiled a record of cases involving sexual assaults on children in the area between 2004 and 2010.


Source : Sapa-AP /lk
Date : 02 Jun 2014 12:33
 
BRITON ACCUSED OF ONLINE ABUSE OF MCCANNS FOUND DEAD

A British woman accused by a television station of directing Twitter abuse at the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann has been found dead, press reports said on Sunday.

Brenda Leyland, 63, was confronted on the street by a Sky News reporter who accused her of being in a group of online "trolls" who directed abuse at the McCanns, whose daughter has been missing since 2007.

Asked by reporter Martin Brunt "Why are you using your Twitter account to attack the McCanns?" Leyland replied "I'm entitled to do that."

Told that her activities had been reported to police, Leyland replied "That's fair enough". The filmed encounter was aired on British television on Wednesday.

The BBC reported that Leyland was found dead in a hotel in Leicester, in the East Midlands of England on Saturday.

A police spokesman said that officers were called "to reports of a body of a woman in a hotel room".

"Identification of the deceased is a matter for the coroner. The death is not being treated as suspicious," the spokesman said.

British press have reported that police are investigating abuse on social media towards the McCanns.

The couple were initially named as suspects in their three-year-old daughter's disappearance while on holiday in Portugal, but were cleared of any involvement.

The unsolved disappearance of Madeleine, one of the most publicised in recent times, has given rise to numerous conspiracy theories.

On Friday, Madeleine's father Gerry McCann told BBC radio that his wife Kate and their nine-year-old twins had been threatened online.

"There have been other instances where people are threatening to kidnap our children. People are threatening violence against Kate and myself," McCann said.

"I do think we need to make examples of people who are causing damage."


Source : Sapa-AFP /aw
Date : 06 Oct 2014 01:43
 
A British paedophile who once lived in Australia has been arrested over a child sex crime – and is expected to be questioned over the abduction of Madeline McCann.

Roderick McDonald, 76, will be extradited from Malta to Britain for the rape of a separate child under 13, and will also be questioned by police about a paedophile ring possibly linked to Madeline’s 2007 abduction.

The UK Daily Mirror reports McDonald – known as Roderick William Robinson while he was living in Australia – has links to paedophile gangs that operated in Algarve, Portugal, where three-year-old Madeline was abducted.

McDonald has been on the run since being convicted in 2012 of abusing two young girls.

The Daily Telegraph reports McDonald, an ex-oil rig worker, was sentenced to six months in prison for sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl in the late 1990s. He was arrested by NSW Police in 2001 but fled while on bail.

McDonald was subsequently arrested in New Zealand in 2009 over alleged child sex offences but again fled — this time to Portugal, aided by a fake passport.

McDonald was finally arrested by Interpol and extradited to Australia, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent assault of a child under 10 and served a brief sentence, according to The Daily Telegraph.

McDonald later returned to Thailand and was arrested by local police following a joint operation between the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency and Thai authorities. He was sent back to the UK, but again fled to Europe after allegedly preying on more girls.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that authorities finally tracked him to Malta this week. He was arrested and will now be extradited back to the UK to serve his prison sentence, and to face questions by detectives investigating Madeleine’s disappearance.

Madeline’s mother Kate McCann said it was “unbelievable” police had missed the chance to quiz the man over Madeleine, The Mirror reports.

She said: “The police knew he was in Portugal around the time she vanished, but let him slip through their fingers.

The police are proposing new tests on DNA found in the little girl’s bedroom that that did not belong to workers at the holiday resort where her family was staying at the time of her abduction.
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Read more at http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/madeline-mccann-arrest/#EGKrfVtPcII65xKK.99
 
FATHER OF FOUND SOUTH AFRICAN GIRL REACHED OUT TO MCCANNS

A South African man who was reunited with his kidnapped daughter after 17 years said on Tuesday that he would like to talk to Madeleine McCann's parents.

Morne Nurse said he had never given up hope that his daughter was alive, and researched the case of the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007, days before her fourth birthday.

"I'm trying to get a hold of the mother," said Nurse, during a press conference shown on state broadcaster SABC.

"What we wanted to tell them is that, never give up."

The girl's biological mother, Celeste Nurse, said "All they have to do is just believe and pray and have hope."

The Nurses found their daughter last month, after their second daughter befriended a girl at school who looked remarkably like her. That friend turned out to be her big sister who was kidnapped in 1997. The girl, not named because she is a minor, was taken from her mother's bedside in a Cape Town hospital at just three days old.

Celeste and Morne Nurse kept their daughter's memory alive, celebrating her birthday every year. Their three younger children blew out the candles on the birthday cake of a sister they had never met.

Police officer Mike Barkhuizen also refused to let the case go. He told the Beeld newspaper that he had been looking for the girl for the past five years, and knew the moment's he saw the teenager, that she was the baby kidnapped all those years ago. In 2013, British police reopened an investigation into the girl's disappearance, believing that she was still alive, after they discovered new leads.

In the years following the South African kidnapping, Morne and Celeste Nurse were tormented by stories of children found murdered or trafficked to foreign countries.

"That killed us," said Morne, but they said they always felt their first child was alive. Their marriage, however, took strain and the Nurses are now separated.


Source : Sapa-AP /gf/th
Date : 11 Mar 2015 16:29
 
Omg, that's too much. These guys are slipping down the media whore slippy slide so fast its not even funny.


There are two very different senarios playing out here... a baby snatched from a hospital and a 4 year old from a hotel.

Sad truth is you don't abduct a 4 year old to bring up as your own.
 
Saw an interesting article in the paper over the weekend where they asked Piet Byleveld about Madeleine McCann. He reckons the family interpreter murdered her
 
Madeleine McCann search turns to Australia after discovery of unidentified remains

British investigators probing the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann from a resort in Portugal have contacted Australian police about remains of a young girl found in a suitcase near a highway, London's Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to FoxNews.com Tuesday.

"We are aware of the discovery of the body and we have made contact with authorities in South Australia," a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said Tuesday morning. Australian police, meanwhile, said a connection is "unlikely," although the girls' ages match and the dead girl's time of death lines up with McCann's disappearance.

The remains -- found with a distinctive homemade quilt -- were described by the South Australian Police Department as those of a "fair-haired" child, likely a Caucasian female and between 2 ½ and 4 years old. Based on an examination of the bones, Australian police determined the child was killed "some time since the start of 2007."...
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Full Story here...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/28/search-for-madeleine-mccann-expands-to-australia/
 
Madeleine McCann ruled out as girl's remains found in Australia

Adelaide - The decomposed remains of a young girl found in a suitcase dumped in Australia do not belong to missing British girl Madeleine McCann, police say.

The bones were found earlier this month in bushes near the South Australia state capital Adelaide.

South Australia Police Detective Police Superintendent Des Bray said late on Wednesday that 43 children had now been eliminated as the victim in the murder investigation, including McCann.
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http://www.news24.com/World/News/Ma...-as-girls-remains-found-in-Australia-20150730
 
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