Despite asking the general public for help on the programme, there has been a deathly silence from the police, and nothing reported in the media.

Not true. After the programme was aired, Scotland Yard received and were sifting through thousands of calls/emails, some which they seemed to be taking very seriously and have spent the last week travelling through Europe (Germany and Ireland were at least 2 destinations I heard) speaking with people whose information seemed credible enough to warrant travelling.

I dont remember whether I read this in a news article or heard it on the radio, but I definitely heard it on Wednesday, in any case, the statement made is definitely untrue.

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@azureline** wrote:

Should we be told the facts? probably no..............police don't usually tell the public anything in case it jeopardises what they already know.

I don't think anyone is being forced to give donations and anything Scotland Yard are spending will be within their budget...............

Questioning Scotland Yard's honesty is a bit dangerous? They could sue.

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If it went to Court ..which Country would it be held in ?

Are the signed statements everyone made earlier still legally binding ?

If the reenactments they took part of on Crimewatch are different to the various other signed statements .What does that mean legally ?

I've looked at some of those ..the changes ..the conflicting info . it's being aired so publicly by the media as they wish and people are looking at what is available .Including PJ witness statements.

PJ wanted a re enactment done there some time back .... .They can be used as evidence I think ?

IF TV stations there wanted to air the BBC crimewatch re enactment  there and were told that the rights weren't being sold ..why ?

It was were it occured .Were the case started.Could they not reopen the case there with this new information ?

Why would anyone 'kmow straight away that their child had been abducted' ?

At the suggestion of the possibility of her wandering off a relative said why would she do that ..as though 3 yr olds don't wander off ...especially if they can't find their parents .

The suggestion was just shrugged off as silly .

and as far as things going wrong....

A grandfather who saw Jill Dando moments before she was shot dead claims police ignored his evidence about the murder.

Barry Lindsey said Miss Dando, 37, was confronted by her 'Mediterranean' killer on her doorstep in 1999 seconds before she was killed.

Mr Lindsey, now 61, told detectives to search for an olive-skinned man - but he claims they were only interested in evidence linking Barry George to the murder

Mr George served eight years behind bars for the killing before being acquitted after a retrial in 2008.

The 53-year-old was recently denied up to £500,000 compensation for being wrongly jailed after the Court of Appeal agreed with a minister that Mr George was 'not innocent enough' to be eligible for a pay-off.

Eyewitness Mr Lindsey told police in the days after the murder on April 26, 1999, that Mr George was not the man responsible for the murder outside the Crimewatch presenter's home in Fulham, west London.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372265/Jill-Dando-shot-dead-olive-skinned-assassin-says-eye... 

If it went to Court ..which Country would it be held in ? 

No idea but isn't some celebrity who lives in the UK being charged there with a crime that happened in Australia?

Are the signed statements everyone made earlier still legally binding ?

are they legally binding? people are allowed to remember things not previously recalled.

If the reenactments they took part of on Crimewatch are different to the various other signed statements .What does that mean legally ?

It probably means they have licence to produce a film that fits their program.

I've looked at some of those ..the changes ..the conflicting info . it's being aired so publicly by the media as they wish and people are looking at what is available .Including PJ witness statements.

PJ wanted a re enactment done there some time back .... .They can be used as evidence I think ?

IF TV stations there wanted to air the BBC crimewatch re enactment  there and were told that the rights weren't being sold ..why ?

It was were it occured .Were the case started.Could they not reopen the case there with this new information ?

Why would anyone 'kmow straight away that their child had been abducted' ?

Obviously the first thing that came to the mind of a distraught parent?

At the suggestion of the possibility of her wandering off a relative said why would she do that ..as though 3 yr olds don't wander off ...especially if they can't find their parents .

The suggestion was just shrugged off as silly .

It was night time, she was in bed, no one found her wandering off. would be my guess, perhaps she didn't ever wander before?.

Despite asking the general public for help on the programme, there has been a deathly silence from the police, and nothing reported in the media. Well up to now, anyway.

I don't see anything unusual about that. If as a result of the programme, the police have been able to zero in on one or 2 persons of interest (esp if they are in another country like Germany, Netherlands), they will keep that to themselves..

There is a  person(s) out there that did abduct/remove Madeleine from the holiday apartment. If the police want to close in on them, they won't be announcing what they are up to. That person(s) could very well go into hiding if they think the game is nearly up for them.

Why would anyone 'kmow straight away that their child had been abducted' ?

Obviously the first thing that came to the mind of a distraught parent?

No matter, where you are with a small child (at the park, at the Mall, on the street etc) if you turn around and they aren't by your side  as expected,  as a parent I think you automatically think the worst first ... abduction, being run over by a car probably second thought (if in an area near a street/road) or drowning if near a pool or other deep water.

According to news reports & statements made, the window in the bedroom was wide open.. child missing from her bed.. wouldn't that set of immediate alarm bells re abduction? It was a smallish 2 brm apartment, wouldn't take long to check if a child was somewhere other than the bedroom in there.

If the following is true, that the Portuguese police rejoin the probe, that is good.

By Charles Miranda, in London

This week Scotland Yard detectives received more than 2400 telephone calls and emails with tips about Madeleine McCann's disappearance on May 3, 2007, after BBC broadcast a police appeal.

The overwhelming response has prompted Portuguese police to rejoin the probe which has also moved to Germany and the Netherlands where at least two suspects are now believed to be from.

Prof Beckett said it was also a detective's story with true mystery that kept audiences engaged but then so too did produce a divide of opinion.

"There is a tremendous amount of sympathy for the parents and naturally universal sympathy for the girl also but actually there are a lot of people who think that the parents are wicked and are somehow to blame and that they should have not left the child alone and even more bizarre theory that they did it," he said.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/madeleine-mccann8217s-parents-divide-public-opinion-...

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@azureline** wrote:

If it went to Court ..which Country would it be held in ? 

No idea but isn't some celebrity who lives in the UK being charged there with a crime that happened in Australia?

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Azure, all these alleged crimes happened in England, didn't they?

Good news for some other parents.

19 October

Hope for Madeleine McCann search as girl, 4, is found in gypsy camp in Greece

POLICE have made an international appeal to find the family of a four-year-old blonde girl who was found in a Roma gypsy camp in Greece.

Authorities believe the child may have been taken from a family in northern Europe.

The 39-year-old man and 40-year-old woman the girl was found with are not her biological parents.

DNA tests have shown the pair are not genetically compatible with the girl who was found near Farsala in central Greece.

The case will offer new hope to the parents of Madeleine McCann who disappeared while on a family holiday in Portugal in May 2007.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/345953/Hope-for-Madeleine-McCann-search-as-girl-4-is-fou...

Am3 wrote:

According to news reports & statements made, the window in the bedroom was wide open.. child missing from her bed.. wouldn't that set of immediate alarm bells re abduction? It was a smallish 2 brm apartment, wouldn't take long to check if a child was somewhere other than the bedroom in there.

McCann family reverse story over break-in 'evidence'

SHANE HICKEY – 25 OCTOBER 2007

THE spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann has reversed a statement made in the early days of the search for the missing child.

Speaking to RTE's 'Prime Time', Clarence Mitchell said she could "easily" have been kidnapped by an abductor who did not leave the trail of a break-in.

However, in the early part of the hunt, friends and family members told journalists that the shutter on the apartment where the McCanns were staying had been broken.

Mr Mitchell made his comments when questioned by a 'Prime Time' team in a report on the disappearance to be screened tomorrow. "There was no evidence of a break-in," said Mr Mitchell.

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I'm not going into the detail, but I can say that Kate and Gerry are firmly of the view that somebody got into the apartment and took Madeleine out the window as their means of escape, and to do that they did not necessarily have to tamper with anything. They got out of the window fairly easily."

Of the criticism that the McCanns left their children by themselves on four evenings while they went for dinner, Mr Mitchell said there was a cultural difference between Britain and Portugal.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/mccann-family-reverse-story-over-breakin-evidence-263271...

THE spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann has reversed a statement made in the early days of the search for the missing child.

Speaking to RTE's 'Prime Time', Clarence Mitchell said she could "easily" have been kidnapped by an abductor who did not leave the trail of a break-in.

However, in the early part of the hunt, friends and family members told journalists that the shutter on the apartment where the McCanns were staying had been broken.

 So was this "statement" part of a signed statement given to police or only something allegedly said to journalists?