New file on Madeleine is "Gold Dust"

My friends, at Sky News, please, look for this title: New file on Madeleine is "Gold Dust", click at: read full story, then, you will see a video with Mr. Mitchell speaking, click and you can see that video, then you can also see these videos: New Zealand Security Guard Madeleine Sighting, New Details of Madeleine Sightings, McCanns "shocked" as Madeleine files emerge.

Here it is Pedro, I thought I would bring it over for future reference. Of course we all know that the NZ sighting has now been ruled out. I never thought that was Madeleine, to me the little girl resembled her but that is about it, but as the video was such poor quality, we had to wait and be sure.


New File On Missing Madeleine Is 'Gold Dust'

3:21pm UK, Wednesday March 03, 2010

Roddy Mansfield, Sky News Online

A newly released file on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is "gold dust" and could lead to a breakthrough, her parents' spokesman has said.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mixp2IchW48

Clarence Mitchell told Sky News it was disgraceful that information about possible sightings of Madeleine has only emerged now after sitting in a box since 2008, when the case was shelved by Portuguese police.
"The McCanns have been tearing their hair out for a long time, they're very frustrated this information has been sitting in a file since July 2008," he said.
"This information is gold dust to them. Kate and Gerry need all of it and they want a full review of all the information it contains.
"Our investigators are working at times with one hand tied behind their back.
"Any leads must come through Portugal but they must come to Kate and Gerry.



CCTV of the girl spotted in New Zealand


"Our investigators will now work very hard and three years on it will hopefully lead to the breakthrough Kate and Gerry have been waiting for."
Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt said the McCanns first became aware of the file after they won a court battle to ban publication of a book that claimed their daughter was dead.
It was during this case that the detective in charge of the case admitted that new information had come in since the investigation had been shelved but was sitting in a box marked "not relevant".
The new evidence is available because four newspapers applied to the state prosecutor in the Algarve.


New Zealand Reporter On Potential Madeleine Sighting

Although the McCanns were aware of the file's existence since the court hearing, they were shocked to learn of the extent of it.
One report mentions a British man called George who saw a small, distressed blonde girl being dragged along a road to Faro airport in Portugal on the night Madeleine went missing.
The file also contains details of a sighting in New Zealand of a girl who looks like Madeleine, seven months after her disappearance.
TV3 reporter Dave Gooselink told Sky News the girl had a British accent but that New Zealand police no longer have the original footage.
Shop assistant Taryn Dryfhout, who reported the possible sighting, said she "absolutely believes" it was Madeleine.



The McCanns believe the new file could provide a breakthrough in the case


"It was her, she was just so much like her. It was quite a recent event at the time, we'd seen her face all over the news and I was just taken aback," she said.
"She had an English accent and told me her name was Hayley.
"She was quite apprehensive to talk to me and stammered over her words when she was trying to think of her name."
Mr Mitchell refused to comment on the New Zealand incident and stressed the McCanns do not want a "media frenzy" surrounding one sighting.
"Any other sightings that have credible information that can be checked, our investigators are working on it," he said.

Rosiepops, my friend, thank you.

Don't you see? It never mattered beyond being followed up.

No child has suffered because she wasn't Madeleine. No harm has come to any child because she was wrongly identified. No harm ever will. Any parent would not mind if they were asked.

More to the point, no parent has ever complained about their child being wrongly identified.

It is only the s### bags who make a fuss about this.

for Sabot

Isn't it better that the lead is followed up and eliminated rather than not. As Sabot has said no child has been harmed because of the enquiry, and you never know the authorities may get lucky as with Jaycee, it was only because of a curious policeWOMAN that she was found. I can't understand the lack of action in some of the people who have come forward, positive that they had seen Madeleine. The man in Austria who said the little girl was saying a silent 'help me'. I would have jumped in feet first, then apologised if I had been wrong. What is the matter with these people??

Probably hindsight Jean.
People see something, don't really think about it, something else happens, makes them think about the incident and from there on it goes.

Sabot wrote:Don't you see? It never mattered beyond being followed up.

No child has suffered because she wasn't Madeleine. No harm has come to any child because she was wrongly identified. No harm ever will. Any parent would not mind if they were asked.

More to the point, no parent has ever complained about their child being wrongly identified.

It is only the s### bags who make a fuss about this.