Nyt täytyy tunnustaa, että olen tippunut täysin kärryiltä Sirpan skenarioista ja koko Madden jutuista, kun yritin tätä ketjua lukea. Vuodet ulkomailla ovat näköjään heikentäneet luetunymmärtämistäni rajusti. Vuodet ovat varmaan tehnyt saman oikeinkirjoitukselleni, joten anteeksi jos on kovasti virheitä.
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DM kirjoitti:Now Maddie police will probe leads from psychics: A £2million police review will examine previously ignored calls
It is five years since Madeleine went missing in Portugal at the age of three
Kate McCann said the family were 'probably as positive' as they had been in a long time about finding their daughter
Met Police released a new age-progression picture of Madeleine last week
By Vanessa Allen and Phil Vinter
PUBLISHED: 09:22 GMT, 2 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:18 GMT, 4 May 2012
The £2million police review of the Madeleine McCann case will examine calls from psychics which were previously ignored.
Detectives are studying around 100 logs of calls that were discounted because the callers said they were psychics or had dreamt about the high-profile investigation.
Critics said the decision to include information from ‘supernatural’ sources was a waste of resources.
Mystery: The evidence has emerged as Gerry and Kate McCann prepare to mark the fifth anniversary of their daughter's disappearance tomorrow
Police were inundated with calls about Madeleine after she disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal on May 3, 2007.
Crimestoppers set up an international number and sent the information they received to Leicestershire Police, the McCann family’s home force, and to Portuguese police.
But Leicestershire Police reportedly asked Crimestoppers not to forward information from psychics, or calls based on dreams about the case.
Some 100 call logs were not passed on because of the request, Sky News reported. But they have now been sent to the Scotland Yard team reviewing the case.
The information will be examined and entered into the police computer for the first time to ensure no detail has been missed.
But it is considered unlikely that any serious investigation will result unless the leads are corroborated by other evidence.
Peter Kirkham, a former detective chief inspector with the Metropolitan Police, said he was sceptical about the ability of psychics to help police investigations.
‘As soon as you have a high-profile case you get a range of people coming forward,’ he said. ‘I’m certainly not aware of any case that’s been solved by psychics.
‘You can’t waste resources no matter how emotive a case may be.’ US crime author Pat Brown said in a Twitter message: ‘This “review” just gets stupider and stupider.’
Madeleine vanished days before her fourth birthday from an apartment in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz while her parents, Kate and Gerry, had dinner with friends in a nearby tapas restaurant.
The review team has sifted through more than 40,000 pieces of information, including files from the Portuguese police investigation and from the private detectives used by Madeleine’s parents.
It has identified 195 potential new leads, but Portuguese police have refused to reopen the case because they say there is no new evidence.
Mr and Mrs McCann said the fact the Metropolitan Police were reviewing the case had made their lives ‘much more bearable’.
In a statement to mark yesterday’s five-year anniversary of her disappearance, the couple said: ‘It’s hard to define succinctly how it feels to have reached five years without Madeleine – impossible, heart-breaking, frightening, exasperating, incomprehensible.
‘Sometimes it feels like forever and at other times, just like yesterday.’
Scotland Yard said: ‘We can confirm we are in close dialogue with Crimestoppers to ensure that all material in their possession – from any source – is shared with us.’
TALE THAT CAPTURED OUR HEARTS
Kate McCann's book about Madeleine's disappearance has sold nearly 400,000 copies and raised up to £1million for the fund to find the missing child.
Mrs McCann thanked supporters for buying her account of how her daughter went missing on holiday in Portugal, which was published in hardback a year ago.
She said: 'The book has done amazingly well. That's thanks to the general public, and I'm really really grateful.
'Not only obviously has it helped Madeleine's Fund, more importantly it's got people engaged again.
'There's more awareness now, there's more information still coming in now.
'For a long time we had wanted to correct things that were incorrect, just so people could be better informed, and therefore the search enhanced.'
Her husband Gerry added: 'It's put everything in the right context. So much in this case has just been taken as snippets and taken out of context.
'It's a properly considered record of what we've gone through, and Kate's done a brilliant job.'
Mr McCann said sales of the book, simply entitled Madeleine, are 'close to 400,000' and it may have generated as much as £1 million for the couple's fund.
A paperback edition with a new epilogue will be published on May 10.
Kaikkeen voi tietty uskoa kun on epätoivoinen, mutta 100 saikikkoa (mitä ne ovatkaan suomeksi?) tai muuta uniennäkijää olisivat osuneet oikeaan? Luulenpa, että on vaikea löytää edes kahta samaa näkyä noiden 100 joukosta....
Pitäisi tilata Katen kirja ja lukaista, kuitenkin kiinnostaa tapaus. Olimme Madden ikäisen poikamme kanssa tapauksen sattumisen aikaan Thaimaassa lomailemassa ja silloin (ja edeleenkin) ihmettelin joidenkin turistien tapaa jättää lapset hotelliin nukkumaan ja lähteä iltaa istumaan illalliselle ystävien kanssa. Meille jopa naureskeltiin kun kieltäydyimme lähtemästä ja sanoimme syyksi, että lapsi nukkuu jo. Tai lähdimme syömään illalla niin, että poitsumme nukkui/nukahti sitten ravintolassa ja kannoimme hänet hotellille.
Edit. Jaa nyt vasta huomasin, että uutta kirjaa pukkaa näinä päivinä markkinoille...mukavasti ajoitettu ja ihan uusi epilogi on kirjoitettu!
