Kate and Gerry McCann said yesterday that they were more confident than ever that their daughter Madeleine would be found. As the couple prepared to mark the fifth anniversary of the little girl’s disappearance, they appealed once again for the public’s help, expressing fears that the “burden” of the search would be passed to their [...]
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May 2012
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Apr 2012
Madeleine McCann: Unfinished business
April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Five years after she vanished in Portugal, Scotland Yard insist that the hunt for Madeleine McCann is far from over. But is there really any hope? It is, said the detective, like a school photo that any parent or grandparent would put up at home for everyone to see. With her shoulder-length hair and gentle [...]
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Apr 2012
Spanish police have begun searching for Madeleine McCann in a Costa del Sol holiday resort, it has emerged. Detectives are making inquiries in Nerja after a tip-off from colleagues in Portugal. Portuguese police are understood to have received information from an informant about a Madeleine McCann lookalike spotted in the town near Malaga. Officers from a specialist [...]
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Nov 2011
Madeleine McCann – CrimeBlogUK View
November 8, 2011 By 3 Comments
Like many other people, I have read many articles with regards to the continuing case surrounding the abduction of Madeleine McCann. Like most people I have followed the case with great interest, hoping and praying that Madeleine would be returned safely. I have also read with interest some of the commentaries about the case both [...]
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May 2011
MPs criticise PM’s ordering of lengthy and costly Scotland Yard review of police investigation into child’s disappearance. The Metropolitan police review into the abduction of Madeleine McCann could take months or even years to complete and cost millions of pounds. Detectives from Scotland Yard’s homicide command face huge difficulties in examining all the paperwork that details the inquiry into [...]
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Mar 2010
Home Office Secret Review into Madeleine’s Disappearance
March 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
The Home Office has, behind closed doors, commenced a review that could lead to a new police inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. This follows the release of a 2,000 page dossier of evidence last week in which Portuguese detectives are accused of having failed to fully investigate the case. Sources close to Gerry [...]
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Jan 2010
Kate McCann ‘confident’ of winning Madeleine libel case
January 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
‘It’s difficult to hear something incorrect and inaccurate,’ she says of ex-detective’s claim that McCanns faked daughter’s abduction. Kate McCann said today she was confident of winning the libel action over claims that her daughter Madeleine is dead. As she arrived at court in Lisbon she admitted that listening to claims that she faked Madeleine’s [...]
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Jan 2010
Gerry McCann: No evidence to suggest Madeleine is dead
January 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
• Kate and Gerry McCann in court for second day of hearing • Portuguese police claim parents faked child’s abduction Gerry McCann lashed out at Portuguese police today, as a former senior detective dismissed the McCanns’ challenge to claims that Madeleine was dead as “pathetic”. In a heated exchange with reporters outside the court in [...]
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Jan 2010
McCanns in court to fight book ban appeal
January 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Madeleine died in family’s flat, claims ex-detective as her parents seek €1.2m for defamation in second case. Portuguese police believed Madeleine McCann died in her family’s holiday flat and that her parents faked her abduction, a court heard today. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, faced the former detective Gonçalo Amaral across a courtroom as he tried to overturn [...]
