Madeleine McCann - Who Cares?

Madeleine McCann - Who Cares? 

Martin Brunt 

October 20, 2009 1:15 PM 

I don't know why, but I'm still finding it impossible to get a straight answer about Madeleine McCann from Leicestershire police. 

I called to ask about Madeleine and almost before I'd asked the question was being given the old brush off: "It's a Portuguese investigation, not ours." 

The Portuguese authorities closed their investigation in July last year. The press officer said she hadn't heard or read about that. 

Apparently, the Leicstershire force still passes on any potential leads to the dynamic Portuguese police who established precisely nothing about Madeleine's disappearance during their 15-month inquiry. 

I gave it 24 hours and called back. This time I was told that all the Leicestershire cops involved in the Madeleine case were on half-term holiday. So push off. 

She didn't actually say that, but it felt like she had. 

Still, onwards and upwards. The last time I asked a Leicestershire press officer about Madeleine she got hysterical. 

I hope that privately, at least, Madeleine's home force shows a bit more care and thought towards her family. 

Link http://tinyurl.com/yj6zqhy (Sky News)

Who cares? I do, for one.

I care too.

Yes, I agree with Rosiepops, the more complaints the better, because what TB is doing is a serious crime.

Yes we care on here.
Seemingly Leicester police just care about getting paid each month.

This is Martin Brunt. He's a liar and troublemaker. Perhaps they are putting him off because it is HIM. It's also quite possible the McCanns have asked them NOT to speak to the media and they agree it would be a detriment.

I hope Brunt is wrong about the LP's attitude............Brunty is a tw@t ¬!!

No, I don't think Martin is aliar, a troublemaker or tw*t. He is a reporter, a crime reporter.

He pulled up a blog on Madeleine, something that had been archived, uderstandably I think. And this IS a good thing, I think. It isn't like MM or 3A or the alike, is it?

He is, on his own way and within his means, fighting to maintain the awareness about Madeleine. And he is saying that your police are acting exactly like the portuguese police!!! And we do feel it, don't we? Lately I have read some news that do not show LP as a very diligent force.

He ends his piece with:

I hope that privately, at least, Madeleine's home force shows a bit more care and thought towards her family

Brunt on location in PDL and Portimao....always looked and sounded as though he had just been pulled from a Bar to report on camera......

maria wrote:No, I don't think Martin is aliar, a troublemaker or tw*t. He is a reporter, a crime reporter.

He pulled up a blog on Madeleine, something that had been archived, uderstandably I think. And this IS a good thing, I think. It isn't like MM or 3A or the alike, is it?

He is, on his own way and within his means, fighting to maintain the awareness about Madeleine. And he is saying that your police are acting exactly like the portuguese police!!! And we do feel it, don't we? Lately I have read some news that do not show LP as a very diligent force.

He ends his piece with:

I hope that privately, at least, Madeleine's home force shows a bit more care and thought towards her family

He's the source of the 100% DNA match in the hired car myth, isnt he?

Catkins wrote:Brunt on location in PDL and Portimao....always looked and sounded as though he had just been pulled from a Bar to report on camera......

Something about Brunt always disturbed me (for want of a better word).
I always thought when he looked into the cameras and started talking, it was almost like he had his hands tied, gun to his head, and was 'forced' to report exactly what he was told to report.
Maybe its just me, but he always made me feel suspicious whenever I saw him on TV news regarding this case.

My opinion of Martin is that he is trying very hard, maybe to hard to be fair. Some of his opinion pieces in life of crime blog have been very critical of Amaral and the PJ, others have tended to point suspicion towards the McCanns. I doubt he believes both sides, and I am sure he has his own personal opinion. I do believe that he does not want that opinion to colour his reports, so tries to hard to be fair.

That is why he looks like he is saying things he doesnt believe, as Peaceful1 says in her post above.

I think they are all freaked out to be honest with you...the case as become very political and people are scared to talk to anyone for fear they are talking to a journalist or some other source that might cause problems for them.

Peaceful.I agree with what your saying about brunt to.I always feel he speaks as he as to not how he wants to.

I do not always agree with Martin Brunt, in fact some of the time he has been palinly wrong and other times he has reported a lot of twaddle, especially about the blue bag and those witnesses that turned out to be a lot of nonsense. However, with the LP, I think he has a fair point, for whatever reason, I do not think they have behaved properly and their response to Madeleine related enquiries has been slip shod to say the least. I am remembering the reception Clairesy received about the stalking from Tony Bennett and Debbie Butler and the Greens! As for the DNA, I believe he got this from a Portuguese journalist that deliberately told him a lie so he would print it, relations between the British journalists and the Portuguese journalists were always very strained, right from the beginning. And someone said he always looked half drunk, true he did, I remember thinking this a lot of the time and it is true that a lot of their so called "investigative" journalism took place from swapping stories in a couple of well known bars where the hacks hung out, a woman translator would appear in the morning and translate for the Portuguese journalists to the British and as a result mistakes happened due to deliberate misleading and genuine errors in translation, but the overall effect was poor and shoddy journalism, by ALL the journalists!

I think the LP has been less than helpful, this is what it appears anyway, I suppose this could be for a number of reasons, 1) a little bird tells me they are sick and tired of the antis spamming them with rubbish 2) They do not trust journalists 3) They may very well have been asked by the McCanns to do things this way.

However, this does not mean that they stop doing their job properly and the LP to me seem to be behaving just like the PJ did and if this is an unfair criticsm then perhaps they should be seen to be doing something? They are not blameless, they mad some mistakes too and I am not going to make excuses for them, because look at what happened to that mother and her daughter who were being terrorised in her own home, they repeated reported this to the LP and they did nothing and as a result that mother took her own life and that of ther disabled daughter, because they just could not carry on.

I am less than impressed with them at the moment!