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Queens Fish Bar 9:44 Mon Feb 12
Police apply for more funding for Madeleine McCann search

FFS! Surely enough is enough?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/12/police-apply-funding-madeleine-mccann-search/

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have applied for more funding for the search.

The Home Office confirmed that it is considering an application from the Metropolitan Police for more money to keep the probe, called Operation Grange, going.

A spokeswoman said: "The Home Office has provided funding to the Metropolitan Police for Operation Grange and the resources required are reviewed regularly with careful consideration given before any new funding is allocated."

Government funding for the investigation has been agreed every six months, with £154,000 being granted from October last year until the end of March.

More than £11 million has been spent so far on the probe to find the missing girl, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007, aged three.

Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have vowed never to give up hope of finding their daughter.

In 2011 the Met Police launched its own investigation into what had happened to the toddler.

riosleftsock 9:45 Mon Feb 12
Re: Police apply for more funding for Madeleine McCann search

There is, I believe still a sizable six-figure sum in their appeal fund.

On The Ball 9:47 Mon Feb 12
Re: Police apply for more funding for Madeleine McCann search

*slush

Nurse Ratched 9:50 Mon Feb 12
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Let the McCanns fund it themselves. This is just sick now.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 10:00 Mon Feb 12
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Never have the words, 'nice little jolly up' seemed more appropriate.

And that, as Nursie says, is sick.

Mike Oxsaw 11:01 Mon Feb 12
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Didn't the pope have a good old pray about the kid a while back?

If I was the McCanns, I'd demand a refund from the church.

PwoperNaughtyButNot 11:18 Mon Feb 12
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There are some met detictives hoping for another year of chasing white elephants rather than going back to some hard work.

stoneman 11:29 Mon Feb 12
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Prostitutes aren’t cheap in Portugal, you can’t expect British detectives to pay out of their own money 😄😄😄

Sven Roeder 11:34 Mon Feb 12
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After 10 years you wonder what conceivable leads they could be working on day to day.
About 7 years ago I'd have asked for a complete run down on what had been achieved in the previous 12 months and shut it down then.
Unless Mr and Mrs McCann were happy to pay the bills.

geoffpikey 11:38 Mon Feb 12
Re: Police apply for more funding for Madeleine McCann search

Can't we just nationalise Derek Acorah for the Scouse mum?

Be as much use.

Crassus 12:04 Tue Feb 13
Re: Police apply for more funding for Madeleine McCann search

To further investigate the parents?
Just a thought like, given the fathers alledged interest in matters of previous government.....

Pub Bigot 12:07 Tue Feb 13
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I know it's tin foil hat, but maybe the McCann's should be investigated.

Nurse Ratched 12:07 Tue Feb 13
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The Scotland Yard detectives have been told categorically that they CANNOT investigate the parents, Crassus. They are only to consider abductor theories/evidence.

Crassus 12:11 Tue Feb 13
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Blimey Nurse, did not know that
As I alluded then, issues of previous Government but morphing into those of state interest perhaps?
*cough* Alledgedly of course

Pub Bigot 12:12 Tue Feb 13
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I don't understand that. Why can they not be investigated as potential suspects. That will only heighten conspiracy theories

Takashi Miike 12:12 Tue Feb 13
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its long overdue another feature length interview with Gerry grinning

Crassus 12:17 Tue Feb 13
Re: Police apply for more funding for Madeleine McCann search

Anyone mention Dr David Kelly? - No thought not.....

Nurse Ratched 12:18 Tue Feb 13
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PB. There is a detective on record as saying he turned down the gig because he was told by senior officers what he could and could not investigate. It's all googlable, I expect.

Nurse Ratched 12:21 Tue Feb 13
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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4467832/amp/Met-interested-proving-McCann-parents-innocent.html


First link that came up. I expect there are more.

Gavros 12:36 Tue Feb 13
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something remarkably grotesque about the entire affair.

Nurse Ratched 12:42 Tue Feb 13
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Indeed.

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