McCanns: Time for a new Maddie hunt.

A Portuguese police case file obtained by The Sun showed how little has been done with new information about Maddie, who was three when she vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

Last night a top human rights lawyer, who claims to have seen Maddie, joined calls for a new probe. Manuel Jimenez, who works for the EU, said his report of seeing a girl "extraordinarily similar to Madeleine" in Santander, Spain, in September 2008 was ignored.

• Paulo Rebelo MUST have known about this happening then, why did he keep quiet about it?
  
• Why was control of this investigation handed over to Ricardo Paiva and inexperienced detective who is the best pal of disgraced former PJ coordinator Goncalo Amaral?
  
• Why has Ricardo Paiva been allowed to compromise the investigation and himself by testifying for Amaral?
  
• How much information has been thrown directly into the bin?
  

• Goncalo Amaral must be arrested, made a formal witness and be made to tell what he knows.
  
• Ricardo Paiva must be sacked for gross deriliction of duty and then made a witness and be forced to tell what he knows.
  
• A brand new team without any connection what so ever to Amaral and Paiva, must be deployed to this investigation.
  
• Specialised detectives from Scotland Yard MUST be included in this new team.
  
• Scotland Yard's Holmes technology MUST be used in the new investigation and review.
  

Dear **************,

Thank you for your recent letter dated 19th December, 2009 regarding the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance from Praia da Luz, The Algarve, Portugal on May 3rd, 2007.

You included a reply from the Minister of State the Rt Hon David Hanson MP, in which he detailed why this government could not send a specialised team to Portugal to assist with this investigation.
Needless to say, I was less than impressed with his reasons for doing nothing, which he laid out in the letter you kindly enclosed.

The "reasons" Mr Hanson gave showed that he had not read my concerns correctly, and also showed how little he actually knew/knows about the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. Had he read my concerns properly, he would not have alluded that this was a Portuguese investigation as he would have quickly realised that indeed, there is NO investigation, Portuguese or otherwise, and this is my (and others) whole point in trying to contact Alan Johnson the Home Secretary.

For a considerable time we have been trying to convey to Alan Johnson, that the Portuguese were not investigating new leads, not investigating any information being reported to the "investigation", in fact nothing was being done to find this child and her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann were being left to flounder in the dark with a very small team of private investigators funded by themselves, this is the only team investigating Madeleine's disappearance and as good and as experienced as Dave Edgar and Arthur Cowley are, they have no jurisdiction on Portugal and therefore cannot legally follow leads as and when they come in and they have no powers.

I have tried on numerous occasions to contact the home secretary by email and all I get is the run around, they simply offload my mails to the Commonwealth Office, who issue a number, leave a suitable gap and then respond with yet more buck passing and excuses why they cannot do anything. It is NOT up to the Commonwealth Office, it is for Alan Johnson to take control of this situation, if he doesn't, the way things are going this is going to turn into a diplomatic incident, one that can be avoided. I promise I will not keep quiet about the fob offs I have had from the government concerning this child's welfare! I am not gong to be put off by some unknown person responding to my emails and fobbing me off to the Commonwealth Office and the Department for Children Schools and Families .
I believe this is a matter for the home secretary to sort out immediately, too much time has already been lost, if this was a child of the prime minister or David Cameron, we all know the response would be hugely different and it should not be, one child's life is equally as important as the next.

Recently, a number of things have come to light that actually prove what we have been saying all along. I outline it here:

Goncalo Amaral, the disgraced former Policia Judiciaria coordinator recently tried to overturn a ban on his his book (it failed the ban was upheld), which the McCanns claim libels and defames them and harms and hinders their search for their daughter.
Goncalo Amaral called a witness by the name of Ricardo Paiva, who is currently the head of the shelved investigation. During cross examination from Mr Mrs McCanns libel lawyer Dra Isabel Duarte, it was revealed that Ricardo Paiva had been ignoring information being reported and that in existence was a huge dossier of information that has been ignored and has not been investigated, this dossier is marked "Not Relevant To The Investigation". Here we have a clear admission that absolutely nothing has been done or is being done to find this child or discover what happened to her and the people responsible for this heinous crime caught and punished.

This whole investigation is a farce and a fiasco from start to finish and at the center of it is an innocent little child who is being ignored. i want to know what is being done to assist Mr Mrs McCann.

The McCanns themselves have recently called for a full review of this investigation and this is the very least that should happen, it should have happened automatically by now, but it has not. The Portuguese government are trying to sweep this under the carpet, but they should know that this is not going to go away, we will not allow it to go away, something must be done.

Little girls do not just disappear from their beds at night without trace. The Portuguese government have tried to hide this because of the harm to their tourist industry, I would put it to them that they have inflicted far more harm on their £2.8 billion tourist industry by trying to ignore this, rather than deal with it effectively.

I would like to bring these concerns to home secretary himself, I am NOT satisfied with David Hanson's reply, it shows complete ignorance of this investigation.,

** ************* please could you see that my concerns are put before Alan Johnson personally? He has recently met with Mr Mrs McCann and so has the Conservative leader David Cameron.

This should NOT be a political issue, this should be cross party, the life of a child is at risk here, as we speak she could still be alive and being held captive and unspeakable things which I cannot even allow myself to think of could be happening to her, yet the British government and the Portuguese government do nothing! Can you imagine ** ************* the price that could be asked for "time" with this poor little girl? I cannot bear to think of it, I have children and grandchildren myself, for God sake when is something going to be done about this terrible situation?

Might I remind the home secretary once again, that Madeleine McCann was made a ward of court by Mrs Justice Hogg in June, 2008 and this means that Madeleine is a ward of this state and so the government have a legal obligation to see that every single thing that can be done is being done to help find this child, it is obvious nothing is being done and they should stop this deplorable buck passing.

Mr Mrs McCann are indeed being left alone to find their daughter and I defy David Hanson to tell me and others otherwise.

The government should liaise with Portugal as a matter of extreme urgency and get a team out to Portugal from Scotland Yard, either the specialised kidnap team or the cold case team and the Yard's technology, "Holmes" should be put at this team's disposal to help with the thousands of bits of information.

David Hanson should re-read my concerns, I have never once suggested that detectives simply be sent into Portugal to take over, I have always stressed to work ALONGSIDE their Portuguese counterparts, to form a team. Why would protocol, primacy and jurisdiction get in the way of this? All that is required is simple negotiations, this would actually help the Portuguese government as people like myself would then be assured that something was being done, it would lift the pressure.

Please help Madeleine and her parents.

Sincerely

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