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The family of Madeleine McCann are to launch a fresh advertising campaign to help find the missing four-year-old.
Up to £80,000 from the McCann's fighting fund will be spent on a new appeal through billboards and other media.
That, I believe, is a police theory 'cos they've nowt else to go on. I don't think they did that either. Have the police made an official statement on that? Maybe some calpol for heat stroke but not sleeping pills or syringes. That's ludicrous.
Madeleine officer charged over another missing girl
The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was in chaos last night after the detective coordinating the hunt for her abductor was charged with criminal offences over another notorious missing child case.
Goncalo Amaral and four other Portuguese police officers were charged over the weekend with offences relating to the inquiry into the disappearance of Joana Cipriano from a village seven miles from where Madeleine was abducted.
Originally posted by foriZ
Police have known "for a month" that Madeleine had died in the apartment, it is widely reported. The tabloid newspaper 24 Horas says that the police are looking for Madeleine's body in the sea, helped by English sniffer dogs. They have intensified searches around the nearby town of Lagos and along the Algarvian coast, it says.
Originally posted by dgtempe
Well, maybe there's a lynch mob mentality because these situations are usually perpetrated by the parents.
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THE senior detective jointly in charge of the investigation into the Madeleine McCann disappearance is to face a criminal hearing into an alleged cover-up involving another missing girl.
Chief Inspector Goncalo Amaral has been accused of concealing evidence that the mother of eight-year-old Joana Cipriano, who disappeared in the Algarve three years ago, was tortured by police into confessing she had killed her daughter.
The senior officer, who heads the Policia Judiciaria in Portimao, the nearest Portuguese town to Praia da Luz from where Madeleine vanished, could appear before the secret hearing as early as next month.
A spokesman for the McCann family has refused to comment on allegations they used some of the Madeleine fund to pay their mortgage.
The statement comes after the Daily Mail reported that the family’s spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, confirmed: "part of the donations ... had been used to help with mortgage payments".
Mitchell told Sky News the use of the money was in line with the fund's objectives, "to provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine's family".
The Find Madeleine Fund has attracted more than £1 million (over $2 million) in public donations, to help find Madeleine McCann.
However, use of the fund has been called into question after it was revealed about a third of the money had been used to meet the McCanns' living costs, publicity fees and pay staff.
A young Italian girl who went missing four years ago - and was dubbed Italy's Madeleine McCann - has apparently been found alive and well.
Originally posted by Grailkeeper
I have long sense given up hope on Madeline being found alive and well, but this article does bring a small bit of hope...Italy's Madeleine McCann, Denise Pipetone- 'Found'
A young Italian girl who went missing four years ago - and was dubbed Italy's Madeleine McCann - has apparently been found alive and well.
I believe this was one of the theories in Madeline's dissapearance as well.
Keeps some of the hope alive, some.
A POLICE report into the disappearance of Maddie McCann said she died in the family's holiday apartment, a court was told today.
The lawyer in charge of the original inquiry said the report was signed by Tavares De Almeida, who was chief inspector of police at the time the youngster vanished.
Jose Magalhaes e Menezes also revealed that text messages sent by Kate and Gerry McCann were intercepted by Portuguese police who were suspicious about the couple's role in the then almost four-year-old's disappearance.
But the texts were not considered as part of the 2007 investigation because a judge would not allow it.
Trial ... Goncalo Amaral
Mr Menezes was the first witness called at a libel trial brought by the McCanns against former police chief Goncalo Amaral.
His book — "Maddie: The Truth Of The Lie" — claimed the tot died in the family's apartment in the holiday resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.
The McCanns have always maintained their daughter went missing as they dined with friends in a restaurant nearby.
Mr Menezes said the decision to make the McCanns arguidos — Portuguese for suspects — was taken after sniffer dogs brought from England identified blood in the couple's flat and rental car.
The dogs also found a scent on a piece of cloth in a flat rented by the McCanns after they left the apartment, he said.
The McCanns want £1MILLION compensation and a ruling to stop Amaral repeating his claims.
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The couple's lawyer told the court they were prepared to give evidence — but only after Amaral had done.
The McCanns have also called a new witness — named Luis Frois — in the trial.
Amaral was in charge of the original Maddie investigation, but he was taken off the case after slamming British cops in an interview.
Arriving in Lisbon yesterday, Mr McCann said: "No-one can be allowed to say that our daughter can't be found without very good evidence. That's what this court case is about."
Mrs McCann said: "We're looking for justice."
Originally posted by unicorn1
There was a lot of slamming of the Portuguese police at the time. Like our police is so wonderful... Ironically if they HAD been more on the ball, maybe the McCanns wouldn't now be in a position to sue anybody.