Scotland Yard has been granted a further £300,000 to fund Madeline McCann detectives’ costs for another year.
A Home Office spokesman commented, "All applications for Special Grant funding are considered carefully on their individual merits, however, decisions are made in batches to allow us to better consider the impact on the overall policing budget.
"Due to this, the next round of Special Grant funding will not be decided until October, however we have written to Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in the meantime with assurance that the Metropolitan Police Service will receive a similar level of funding for Operation Grange for 2019/20 as it did for the previous year."
The Met wanted the additional money, in a case that already has cost UK taxpayers over £11 million, to continue to work on what it describes as 'outstanding leads.'
The extra funding for Operation Grange should allow a further year’s work to be carried out.
Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May, 2007.
An initial Portuguese investigation led to no result and Scotland Yard launched an investigation in 2011 with the same effect, despite throwing detectives and resources at the mystery.
There now are just a few officers working on the case and, despite looking at more than 60 ‘persons of interest’ and making inquiries as to the whereabouts of 650 sex offenders, the result has been a massive and embarrassing ‘zero.’
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The McCanns left 2 infants and a toddler unattended, that is not hearsay. What is the punishment in the UK and Portugal for this act? Prison sentence?
The Portuguese want to protect tourism but also punish acts of child cruelty and neglect, unfortunately politics got involved in this case and the McCanns got away without explaining their lies to the Portuguese police. The McCanns lying to the police is on record by the way not hearsay.
You are simply relying on conjecture and hearsay.
What we do know is the Portuguese want to protect their tourism at any cost?
Child neglect and abuse is not something people sympathise with especially when you see the culprits avoiding punishment.
I found the Netflix documentary a scary insight into the Portuguese police and legal system.
Would recommend people watch it
The little investigation that was allowed to be conducted showed no signs of breaking and entering or abduction from the apartment where Madeleine and her siblings were left unattended. The investigation also showed that the parents of the child lied to the police and were unwilling to cooperate with the investigation. You don't need 300k pounds to interrogate the McCanns again.
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I hope you find these ranting sessions are of benefit to your mental health, but to be honest, readers of the ADN are running low in humility.
So please find a Therapist and give us a break.
Well, that was their goal, wasn't it?
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I don't know at what point as a parent you stop looking for your child. But as a parent I have responsibility of care and something is very wrong when young children are left to fend for them selves and the parents are not investigated and brought to account for there actions..