The McCanns...

[Babb'sBurstNad]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Was there ever any solid evidence that the McCanns knew the convicted paedo with the big mansion just up the coast from the resort? 

 

None of us know what happened either way and there are enough claims on both sides to support either. Not worth falling out over it though when as I said, none of us actually know what happened. 

 

The more you press the point the more you look like you're involved. TK/Rico.... where were ya'll that night? 

Easy for you to say, I got called "piglet".

 

*sniff

 

You don't just get over trauma like that!

[Captain Turdseye]

If they were from a council estate, nobody would have a problem with them being pally with raging nonces. People are just jealous of them being middle class. 

[No2]

19 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

No one else thinks they parents did it other than a crank copper and internet weirdos.  Imagine being obsessed with a dead child and clutching at straws hoping the parents killed her.  

That's just not true and you have no way of proving it one way or the other. Excluding those obsessed with the case I'd guess a high percentage of those with just a passing interest think they were involved. Before watching the Netflix series I would have thought that. I still wouldn't rule it out although I would class it as extremely unlikely.

[Pureblood]

A DNA expert based in the USA has offered to retest the DNA free of charge.  He has made a request to Operation Grange to provide him with DNA samples, but they are ignoring him. .

 

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/new-dna-analysis-could-help-solve-madeleine-mccann-mystery-expert-says-20190329-p518zx.html 

 

Nine.com.au senior journalist Mark Saunokonoko, who is behind the top-rating podcast, said the inconclusive DNA test result meant investigators hit a "dead end" in that particular line of inquiry.

 

Saunokonoko said after speaking to Dr Perlin he contacted Scotland Yard to tell them the Cybergenetics lab was willing to test the data, but so far had not heard back.

“[Dr Perlin] can resolve those samples, hopefully he gets that data to find that out, that should be exciting for a cold case that 11 years on and still struggling,” he said.

[Pureblood]

https://www.9news.com.au/world/madeleine-mccann-dna-offer-perlin-appears-ignore-uk-police-maddie-podcast/ffca64a3-86b7-465a-9340-7bec54be9437

 

A remarkable pro bono offer to solve 18 DNA samples which could explain what happened to Madeleine McCann – first made in the nine.com.au podcast Maddie – has so far been met with deafening silence from UK police in charge of the years-long, $20m hunt for the missing girl.

 

The London detective who heads up Operation Grange - DCI Nicola Wall – has not yet acknowledged correspondence from one of the world's top DNA scientists, weeks after she was informed how ground-breaking testing methods in the US could breathe new life into the cold case.

 

Nine.com.au has provided a series of forensic reports from the UK lab that tested the McCann samples in 2007, the Forensic Science Service (FSS), to top American scientist Dr Perlin for review.

 

Asked what he had seen in that FSS documentation, Dr Perlin said: "What this report says is there is a possibility that Madeleine McCann's DNA is present in this mixture."

 

Following an investigation by nine.com.au, Dr Perlin on April 5 sent a formal request to London Metropolitan Police’s DCI Wall to assist Operation Grange, the investigation she has led since 2014. DCI Wall, an experienced homicide investigator, has so far not responded to Dr Perlin.

 

Despite several approaches from nine.com.au, DCI Wall has declined to explain why Dr Perlin appears to have been stonewalled by Scotland Yard.

 

Over the weekend, following revelations first aired in nine.com.au's podcast investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, an army of UK tabloids lined up to report on Dr Perlin's offer.

 

In recent episodes of Maddie, multiple requests to Scotland Yard, the UK Home Office and the office of Prime Minister Theresa May to comment on Dr Perlin and the impact his work could have on the Madeleine mystery have all been refused.

 

Dr Perlin's Pittsburgh laboratory Cybergenetics has a proven history of helping police forces in Great Britain, with his team and technology contracted to assist UK law enforcement on various cases over the past 20 years.

 

Dr Perlin has informed DCI Wall he will analyse the 18 McCann samples of interest for free, and that he could deliver the results back to Operation Grange in just one week.

The computational testing methods pioneered by Dr Perlin, known as TrueAllele, is far superior to the methods used in 2007 to analyse evidence from the McCann holiday apartment and a rental car.

 

Dr Perlin told the podcast the 2007 testing methods at the FSS had "failed" in the McCann case, effectively closing off potentially important lines of inquiry.

 

"Computers have no dog in the fight," Dr Perlin said, explaining how TrueAllele works. Cybergenetics only requires the archived DNA data from UK police, not the actual DNA samples.

 

"If your goal is truth, and your goal is the best science, then there is really no excuse for not opening up the data for better analysis by better methods.

 

"True Allele has been used successfully in England and Australia and Northern Ireland in cases like [the Madeleine McCann mystery] where there are complex mixtures and a small amount of DNA."

 

Dr Perlin said he would find it strange to not deploy hugely improved DNA technology to work on cold cases where there were "inconclusive" DNA samples waiting to be solved.

 

"It would be as if you found some old tissue from a person's body from one hundred years ago and now we have better microscopes so we can analyse it with. And some governmental agency says, 'No, let's only use the methods from 100 years ago that we know don't work. They failed then, they can fail now. And better methods with stronger microscopes or electron microscopes that could answer the question that we have, let's not use them’."

 

Ten months after DCI Wall took over Operation Grange, the police investigation was drastically scaled back, with the number of officers on the team cut from 29 to four.

The Home Office is currently considering a request from Operation Grange for further funding, believed to be £300,000, through to March 2020.

 

Portuguese police had focused on the McCann hire car and certain areas inside the family's Algarve holiday apartment after intensive search work by two specialist British cadaver dogs, three months after Madeleine went missing.

 

The two dogs had alerted inside the apartment, car and on several personal family possessions. Any alerts by cadaver dogs need to be corroborated by additional evidence, such as DNA.

 

One month after the dogs had searched those areas, Madeleine's parents were declared arguidos, formal suspects.

 

Mr and Mrs McCann, both doctors from Rothley, Leicestershire, have strenuously denied they were involved in the disappearance of their daughter, and nine.com.au does not suggest any involvement on their part.

 

Arguidos status was lifted from Mr and Mrs McCann when the Portuguese police investigation was shelved in August 2008.

 

Aged three when she vanished in May 2007, Madeleine would turn 16 in 2019.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

There's an interesting Wired article about probabilistic genotyping, Perlin and TrueAllele, for background.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/trueallele-software-transforming-how-courts-treat-dna-evidence/amp

 

Too long to copy and paste, sorry.

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

She's in the drink.

[Scott_M]

Repent! Repent! Repent!

[Dr Nowt]

Turns out the man who challenged Kate McCann is also a Labour activist.

[Bjornebye]

This Madeleine Mann documentary on Netflix is damning to them. One of the crime unit fellas who specialises in child abuse/kidnappings even says he didn't like Gerry McCann as soon as he met him. 

[Barrington Womble]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

This Madeleine Mann documentary on Netflix is damning to them. One of the crime unit fellas who specialises in child abuse/kidnappings even says he didn't like Gerry McCann as soon as he met him. 

But then hasn't he gone on to be one of the McCann's biggest supporters?

[Bjornebye]

14 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

But then hasn't he gone on to be one of the McCann's biggest supporters?

I don't know I've not got that far. The bald fella? 

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I don't know I've not got that far. The bald fella? 

Can't remember but I think so. Scottish too if I recall. 

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

Can't remember but I think so. Scottish too if I recall. 

Yeah thats him. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

McCann / McCan't. The wee baldy stoat the baw needs tae make his fuckin mind up ah siz.

[Anubis]

 

 

[manwiththestick]

2 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

 

Ffs, how are they going to find her now,  the window gets smaller the longer they delay?

[Thoth]

48 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

 

Been missing that long now that if she is still alive she will be in the vulnerable category for Coronavirus 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Starting to suspect Maddie is patient zero.

[Jairzinho]

Maddie El Zhar.

[Dr Nowt]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

 

 

Oh this is too much. Where are their fucking priorities?

[Mudface]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

 

 

 

No messing about from Ian there.

[dockers_strike]

This is still a tragic event \ story whatever you describe it as.

[johnsusername]

2 hours ago, Mudface said:

 

No messing about from Ian there.

Someone called L E I S A knows the truth. If it was the Predator surely they could have asked Arnie to go and get her back?