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Published Date: 01 August 2008
LAWYERS for the parents of Madeleine McCann yesterday began trawling through Portuguese police files on the investigation into their daughter's disappearance, the couple's spokesman said.
Gerry and Kate McCann's legal team received notification from the authorities in Portugal that they could begin to study 20,000 pages filed by police.

The McCanns were largely kept in the dark about the official inquiry, because of Portuguese laws governing police investigations.





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  • Last Updated: 31 July 2008 7:08 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Selgovae,

Scottish Borders 01/08/2008 07:20:28
"The McCanns were largely kept in the dark about the official inquiry, because of Portuguese laws governing police investigations."

I see, and it wasn't because they were suspected by the police of involvement in their daughter's disappearance?

Why does the Scotsman along with the rest of the British media continue to give the McCanns the kid-glove treatment? The police report is now available on the internet, and the police inspector formerly involved in the investigation has published his book. These reveal concerns about the behavior of the McCanns and their friends: their conflicting stories of events on the day of the disappearance, and their refusal to cooperate in a reconstruction. The British press has given much coverage to the varied descriptions by one of the friends of the "abductor", but almost none to the reported sighting of someone carrying a child who resembled Gerry McCann.

Many people contributed to the fund to find Madeleine, including at least a few young kids who donated their pocket money. How is the money being used? A substantial amount has been spent on a Spanish detective agency with no history of searching for missing persons, but whose employees are embroiled of accusations of fraud, drugs, attempted murder, and even the paying of witnesses in Morocco who had claimed to have seen young, blonde-haired girls.

Some of us would like to know whether these suspicions have any foundation, or can we be confident that people's donations were not made in vain. But the British media is hardly helping.
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yockel,

01/08/2008 07:30:22
Why do the McCann's need to know what the police found?

 

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