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DETECTIVES FROM OPERATION Grange are asking for the public’s help to identify a man they are keen to trace in connection with their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The Metropolitan Police in the UK have today released two images of a man which will feature in the BBC1′s Crimewatch appeal running at 9pm tonight.
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These e-fits have been drawn up based on statements and descriptions from two different witnesses who saw this man in the Praia da Luz town area.
The witnesses have described the man in the e-fit as being white, aged between 20-40 years old, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean shaven.
[If you cannot view the e-fit images on the app, please click here and here]
The sightings are from the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007, the night that Madeleine went missing.
Work by detectives has given them a far greater understanding of the times when the abduction could have taken place. This in turn has made the statements from the two witnesses far more significant.
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One of the main priorities for their investigation is being able to identify the man who is being described.
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Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, the senior investigating officer, said:
Today I am asking the public for their help. Whilst this man may or may not be the key to unlocking this investigation, tracing and speaking to him is of vital importance to us. We have witnesses placing him in the resort area around the time of Madeleine’s disappearance.
He added that this “was far from our only line of inquiry” and there will be e-fits released of other sightings as well of people they are equally keen to trace. These people were seen on the day of Madeleine’s disappearance and the days leading up to it.
He added:
Where we have been able to make massive steps forward is by drawing together all the material gathered to date, and reviewing it as a whole.
We continue to put Madeleine at the heart of our investigation and I would urge people to watch Crimewatch tonight and if you can help identify this man or have any information about our new appeal points please contact us.
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He said that Praia da Luz is a popular holiday destination for many nationalities which is why they have made requests for help and asked that the appeal be repeated in many different countries. He said he will be travelling to Holland, Germany and Ireland to seek the support of the public there.
“We still have a lot of material to investigate and much work to do. Your information could be the vital piece we need to finally answer what happened to Madeleine,” he said.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the incident room on 0800 096 1011, if you are UK based. If based outside the UK please call +4420 7158 0126, or email operation.grange@met.police.uk
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Exactly and think about it, could you describe that guy standing next to you in the pub last week? Not a hope so 6 years on, they might as well pull images out of Google Image search.
Thanks Angela.
I think this whole E-Fit thing is absolute bulIshit – to anyone who has read any detail on this case, it is pretty clear the “abduction” story doesn’t add up at all.
I have read 2 independent case studies into this and this “abduction” suddenly became political at the moment Gordon Brown, the McCanns’ fellow countryman and then UK PM, got involved.
Oh yeah, they made double sure the E-Fit didn’t look anything like Gerry McCann, didn’t they?
While I hope the poor girl is found safe and alive. Surely her parents have some questions to answer as to why she was left alone in an apartment in a foreign country for so long…I would have thought that has to be some form of neglect? As I said though hopefully she’s found
“Surely they have some questions to answer”?? Do you think they haven’t been judged, asked themselves that question over and over every second of every day of every year she’s been missing?? They made a horrible mistake in thinking that checking up on them every 20min was enough and they’ll know that for the rest of their lives and never forgive themselves. What a dick of a comment.
It’s not a dick comment. It was a question. It may be an uneasy or unpopular question to ask but it’s one that should be asked. If you or I left a child alone at home and god forbid something were to happen to them we would be accountable for what would be a form of neglect to that child. I just think they have questions to answer with regards to that.
@gaaa…they have been asked that, judged because of that, cried openly about that and now live with that….every day of their lives! You are asking a question that was answered many many times. Fool.
I’d love to see her returned safe as everyone does, but questions have to be answered. Some of which are why the McCanns have so much pull that their child gets 100x the media attention and police resources of any other missing child, why they wouldn’t answer difficult questions, why their stories changed and why the cops have never done anything about that. No harm in asking the questions if there’s innocent answers to them surely?
Gaa Nut – you are dead right, they left a three year old and twins one year old in a room on their own while they went off to have a nice evening meal.
Like it or not they should have been charged because with some common sense this could all have been avoided.
Just think what Madeleine must have gone through because of their selfish act.
If that little girl had been born in a council estate, with unemployed parents instead of attractive wealthy doctors…the parents would have been charged with child neglect. It strikes me as odd why the mother would repeatedly answer ‘no comment’ to almost 40 questions when interviewed by police. As for the photos released, they look like the sky news reporter.
The one on the right looks like that BBC impersonator chap doing Gary Lineker (not Rob Brydon). And the one on the left looks like someone else famous that I can’t quite put my finger on.
I have not followed the story of the parents with much interest, but as a pair of educated people you would have thought at least one of them would have known better than to leave their child unattended in a strange country..
They may well kick themselves over their error – but I can’t see anyone I know who has kids doing this.. It is literally asking for trouble – no matter how many times you vow to go and check (because we all know full well that you mean to check every half hour, but in reality – it’s whenever there’s sufficient lull in the conversation, and that doesn’t happen on a timer).
Amy you are not being unreasonable. Apparently they refused to do a reconstruction for the Portuguese police in the weeks after she went missing, and on the first anniversary, but now have assisted one which is filmed in Spain.
I am looking forward to seeing this new timeline they are talking about, since the existing timeline is based on the statements the MCCann group made to the police, all available to be read on http://www.mccannfiles.com.
This case has mystified me from the beginning, as I know Luz and the are very well and a lot of the statements and subsequent media reports simply don’t make sense.
I think that 6 years down the line the accusations and blaming should stop. The parents have been through enough. They’ve recognised the mistake, they’ve had to face accusations of murdering thier own child. They should not have left those children alone, of course, they did and have paid the ultimate price for it.
I don’t really buy into the class warfare explanation. It’s a lot stranger than that. Middle class families in England are definitely not immune to the attentions of the police and social services – google the Sally Clarke case for one.
I’d be more inclined to ask questions about how it was that Gerry McCann was able to have multiple personal conversations with the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and why Gordon Brown intervened in the investigation at the behest of the McCanns and against the advice of the Portuguese police. The McCanns were card-carrying members of the Labour Party, & Gerry was being touted as a possible candidate. This may be a coincidence, of course. There seem to be lots of those.
That’s true. I think as a parent, part of me just can’t believe that they would bring this little girl to harm. I don’t know. I still think I won’t be casting any stones yet.
@Valerie
It was their companions at the tapas bar that refused to take part in a reconstruction, the reason being that the reconstruction wasn’t going to be televised so they didn’t see the point.
The children were sedated to keep them asleep while the McCanns had dinner with their friends. Kate McCann admitted that. Some mistake!
And tell me, why would anyone haul a child out a bedroom window when there was a perfectly usable patio door (which was screened by bushes so not visible from the McCanns’ table in the tapas bar?
Leaving children unattended to enjoy the finer things in life & the sixth night is a horrible mistake? I think not. There are so many unanswered questions in this case, 48 to start with!
I think for two such highly educated individuals it was an awful stupid thing to do. They had a nanny in the UK why didnt they bring her with them. The reason they gave for not using the babysitting service available at their apartments is that htey didnt want to leave thier kids with strangers. However lets not forget this couple were one of many together who left all their children alone. They supposedly took turns checking on them. There was what 8+ people and it just happened to be the parents who discovered her missing not one of the other many trips by someone else. There are far too many holes in this story it is beyond strange. I personally found in their interviews that they were both emotionless. I know people are told not to cry if they can help it in press conferences but these two seemed almost numb to emotion. I also found Gerry to almost nudge Kate when she was asked questions in interviews he alwasy commanded the stage in public.
This might be a daft question, but are they two e-fits of the same man? Because they look nothing alike. I wouldn’t be very hopeful of identifying someone whose appearance was somewhere between the two.
Jane, the problem with witness descriptions is that if there were 10 different witness’s to a crime you will probably get 10 different versions of events. The 2 images that you see may look like 2 different men but may act as a visual aid to jog the memory of someone who was there at the time. Something which may have been overlooked or disregarded by a witness as not being important might come back to them. It could be a fleeting glance or maybe someone bumped into them but the witness didn’t take any notice of it at the time. Now by issuing these photos that chance encounter might come back to them and might even stir up other memories of the day.
@MB The lady in question seems quite intellectual and articulate actually. You on the other hand seem like a lonely, insecure, intellectually challenged, attention seeking, “durtbird” raised in a gutter by some sort of bacteria that has yet to be studied extensively. You are making a fool of yourself, I know you think you are somewhat amusing and that by ‘abusing’ strangers on a screen you are getting attention…but you just come across as foolish.
@Alan Burke Is that the correct use of the word “durtbird”?
MB what Jane said is that the two efits , that are supposed to help and find the alleged suspect, are in fact not very helpfull as they look like two different men.
Thick is the one who can’t see that, read You
Have a little respect, MB, if not for yourself then forJane. Your comments say more about you than about Jane. If you can’t make a constructive criticism then maybe don’t bother posting at all.
The bacteria bit was funny though. You wouldn’t believe how happy it makes me to see someone else getting a bollocking on the journal, journal butt hurt is the worst;)
@Michelle, I deserved it. I did get outa bed the wrong side.
Thankfully I can see the error of my ways, some others however, have bully tendencies. Those individuals have pack mentalities, and I will reiterate, their comments say more about them than me.
You attacked people for no reason other than you are an insecure attention seeker, you are the only ‘bully’ here, and a rather irritating one at that. Nobody cares what you have to contribute, bacteria was being rather polite. Your retorts are equally pathetic, go back in your box.
MB, I don’t take insults levelled against me on the Journal seriously – if I did, I’d never post again!
Your apology is appreciated, though. I think we should all drop it now and get back to the issue at hand – that of searching for Maddie’s captors.
As many other commenters realised, all I was trying to do was draw attention to the discrepancies between the two e-fit images above and get a dialogue going that might be useful or at least interesting.
Unfortunately I wound up being really busy today and didn’t have a chance to follow up on what I’d started.
Sean I have too agree with gaa nut. I have young children and there is no chance I would leave them alone in an apartment while I eat and drink nearby. A lot can happen in 20mins. Bottom floor apartment too. I truly feel for that family. Negligence was the main factor in play here.
“The man they want to contact is described as white, aged between 20 and 40 years old, with short brown hair, of medium build, medium height and clean shaven.”
If people took the time to educate themselves on the actual facts of this case it would soon become clear that the abduction theory is bull. The parents did it. A corpse dog responsible for solving over 200 crimes indicated 2 places in their apartment, it was brought to other apts no indication. Same thing with their car, random cars no indication, their car the dog goes mental. The police video of the actual event is available on YouTube. Kate refused to answer police questions. Just 2 examples of many.
I said already that I had little knowledge of the case – I always thought the leaving her alone was dodgy enough.. I didn’t realise there was other kids and I only just found out about the drugs and unlocked door since yesterday.. If anything it would make me more skeptical – and that’s before dogs and refusing to answer questions comes into the equation..
I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact they drugged the kids.. People were up in arms about a cat being given unnecessary sedation under close supervision by a vet – but drugging your kids and leaving them alone in an unlocked room in a holiday resort to disappear is just.. I don’t know, I can’t view that as ok.
I don’t think that there is any proof that they drugged the children. In fact they have consistently denied that they gave them anything to help the sleep. They were confident that the kids were good sleepers and in fact the twins continued to sleep right through all the noise when they all went to the apartment and searched in it for madeleine, then stayed in it while they waited for police etc.
They have confirmed though that the patio door was open.
All the families left their children in their apartments and they went up every so often to check on them, though accounts of who and when and whether they went into the apts and actually saw the children, or not, vary. One family had a child monitor.
Just to set the record straight, the facts as the McCann have stated them is that they left the three kids asleep in the apartment with the patio door open. To get to where the McCann were dining meant going down steps, onto the public road, down about 50 yards, in through a reception area and then another 50 metres or so along the poolside,into an area which was screened off by heavy plastic sheeting because of the cold/ wind. From that area you can see the top of the patio door, though not sure how clearly on the dark.
So anyone could have easily gone in the door and taken a child. Or a child could have wandered out. There is a mystery about whether the window and shutters were actually open or not. First they said the window was open, then when it was proven that the shutters could not be opened from the outside, later on they said they’d left the door open. Maybe they were embarrassed about that, ie leaving the door open. In any event, the key thing is that the door was open and anyone watching would have realised that.
Hopefully the police will soon resolve this tragedy and everyone affected can move on.
The McCanns seen to have been helped – to say the least – right from the top of the establishment in Britain from the moment Madeleine went missing.
Is it a coincidence that he was deeply involved in the Labour party and was tipped to run for Labour at the next election? The level of support they received on a diplomatic, political and legal level was extraordinary even considering that both were high profile doctors.
I have no.problem with high profile people being helped by their country of origin. I do have a problem with what seems to have been interference with a police investigation in a different jurisdiction, diplomatic and political. The McCanns have a lot of questions to answer which they refused to do during the investigation.
The character description is far too broad to reasonably assume this man, (or men I would believe seeing as the pictures are virtually different in my
opinion) is going to be found. There’s nothing specific to enable people to see this man. Aged 20-40? Brown hair? Medium build? They’ve virtually described almost all Caucasian males in the UK, Ireland and Western Europe in that description. There’s nothing concrete, nothing stands out about these images. It worries me that after 6 years of yearning no results, that the Metropolitan police believe this is their ‘new lead in a fresh investigation’. It’s great that this tragedy is still being kept in the publics mind to practise extra vigilance, but I hate to think that this may be the only glimmer of hope for this poor family, who have been through so much, to find their daughter.
Believe it or not.. it was not uncommon for parents to leave the kids behind while they went for a meal.. the mccanns assumed that their children were safe and sound. In a locked apartment, in bed asleep.. who would ever have thought something terrible would have happened to them?
In an more innocent age it was inconcievable that any harm would come to these children.. unfortunately the events of that night will have immediate and direct effects for all caring parents from now on.. for ever.. the children will never be left out of the line of sight again.. and woe betide anybody who does..the sea change as to how we raise our kids has taken place.. maddys abductors (i dont believe the mccanns did it) have managed to alter the way we mind our kids like no other behaviour changers in history..should we not invest more effort in identifying the vile evil predators in our society and making it harder for them to harm our children?
Frank I honestly don’t know what planet you are on. I have 4 kids, never in our life has the wife or myself left the kids on their own. No parent with any sort of common sense would leave their kids in a strange room, in a strange country so they could enjoy a meal.
Why didn’t they get a baby sitter? Simple solution!
What would happen if the kids wake up? Obviously not in this case as I believe they were medicated but not every parent is a doctor that bring meds with them on holidays….
Not locked, door was open, ie patio door unlocked, leading down steps to street with traffic. A four year old in charge of two two-year olds. Yet they never considered that she might have wandered out.
When do you think the child went missing?
All this talk about simpler times – she didn’t go missing a few decades ago. The world has been a scary place where children get abducted for quite some time now.
As a pair of doctors – who would be considered very intelligent people indeed, they behaved like idiots.
I was never left in a house unsupervised until I was in double digits. And at that – back then leaving a 10 year old unsupervised was considered living dangerously.
They were in a strange country too.. Seriously – how can you even try to excuse leaving 3 kids under the age of 4?
@The Lynch-Mob…………. This investigation would be non-existent if the McCann’s choose to let it be blown away with time as the Portuguese Police would have done. The progress to date in the search for Madelene is due to the love of her parents and their unrelenting search for their child. They are haunted with the guilt..OF THE WRONG THEY HAD DONE….and as a consequence there is no harsher sentence for them to serve than to have to live with the guilt of their child’s abduction due to their grave error of judgement!
And by that rationale all the parents of other missing kids don’t love their kids enough to whip up this level of attention.. That’s lovely.. Because how many of those parents went off to enjoy themselves leaving their kids unsupervised?
@shanti… My above comment related to the McCann’s because this is the issue we are all commenting on. However my comment also relates to the McCann’s because this abduction was due to their error of judgement concerning the welfare of their children,not all abducts are as a consequence of the parents mistake? Hence my comment!
The McCanns want the investigation re-opened on their conditions, they want reconstruction to take place in Spain, hundreds of miles away from the resort where their daughter was allegedly taken from them and they had changed their time line of events to suit them.
Sounds like an innocent couple to me.
@Monika. NO civilian can dictate to any Police force the format for the Police investigation!
The Portuguese police had NO interest in conducting a further investigation and only reopened it when Scotland Yard got involved. The McCann’s did not trust the Portuguese Police for all the right reasons hence, the McCann’s request to hold the centre of a new and fresh investigation outside of the jurisdiction of the incompetent Portuguese Police. This is why the British investigators had to commence their investigation from ‘zero.’
Micheal you really need to get your facts straight before you start commenting. I believe a few readers here on journal last night managed to prove you wrong.
The only reason McCanns don’t “trust” the portugese police is that they are being the main suspects on their investigation.
How do you explain the fact that tey found a journal with the time line suiting McCanns in their bedroom and that they refused to answer any questions directed at them?
How is it that suddenly, after 6 years , case is re-opened and all previous findings are disregarded? What police force allows time line of events to be changed?
Yes, an average Joe wouldn’t be able to dictate police actions but it seems to me , by the way McCanns became famous and are treated like celebrities, that they are above the law in the UK
The dirt, I know in my heart that baby is still alive, something is telling me that since the the day she went missing. Durtbirds, i’d kill them if I had the opportunity!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come here Amy, anything wrong with being hopeful love? as opposed to half the depressing ba)tards on here?1 and by the way Angela, dont be facetious honey, it doesnt suit ur face!!!!
MB, I was not being facetious. I find your language and manner ‘interesting’ I suggest you learn manners and how to socially interact with others. You talk cheap, look cheap and seem to have the intellect of tree bark. I suggest you go chew on some paint chips and stop embarrassing yourself.
Jim.. you will find this near impossible to comprehend but there was a time when children went out by themselves.. like going to the shops to get a message.. or run an errand down the road without adult supervision.. as a child, i did this myself,as did every other kid on our street.. and nothing ever happened to me or anybody i know..
Hey this is a true story you wont believe.. as a kid i used to walk about 2 kilometers to school and home again every day.. sometimes i used to ride my bike there.. honest!
I lived in an estate with a supermarket right next to it.
I wasn’t allowed to go to that shop alone until I was 8.
I wasn’t allowed walk home from school alone until then either (school was 10 mins walk from my house).
That was a few decades ago now. It hasn’t gotten better – it has gotten worse. You don’t leave a toddler unsupervised while you go out for a meal. End of.
Frank I totally agree it was the same when I was growing up, on occasions as youngsters we would be gone to the country side for most of the day and we had loving, caring parents!
Frank – sorry have to ask how long ago was this? You must be talking of a time more than 30 or 40 years ago as you certainly don’t describe my childhood.
Michael – there’s your error. Country side.
My ex’s mother still left her doors unlocked in 2000 – she was in “the countryside”. There’s less people around so somewhat less of a risk (still came home to find herself being burgled and had the insurance company refuse a pay out because she was an idiot though).
Yes but I bet your parents didn’t leave you in a strange bedroom sedated while they went to have dinner with their friends. And I’m sure they would have been in a dilemma as to whther to leave the door open in case of fire or leave it locked so that if you did wake up you wouldn’t wander off.
And that reminds me. They said the patio door was open in case of fire but if the children were sedated they wouldn’t have woken up and the McCanns didn’t have a clear line of sight from their table because of some bushes.
Frank, did you do all those things on your own when you were just THREE years old? And if so, were you left on your own with two younger siblings for good measure? And did that happen even when you were in a strange house in a foreign country?
Yep. Criminal negligence at best, I would have thought. But as I said below the McCanns were well in with the Labour party and got support above and beyond. Labour were in government in thr UK at that time.
Not mentioning gross negligence manslaughter as it would be described for the rest of the UK population in a situation like this… Doesn’t the efit look like Gerry McCann?
If Maddy is alive and missing and I do believe she may be. Shouldn’t everyone door their level best to get her back to her parents?
Let’s hope that tonight’s programme will help established what happened, find out where Madeleine is, rescue her if she is alive, and allow this family and the people of Luz to move on from this dreadful matter, which at the end of the day is the story of the tragic loss of a beautiful and much loved little girl, and the lonely grief of her parents.
I think she might be dead by now,they might have panicked given all the media attention..I hope she is not dead,but think about what kind of life she might be having now??Hate to think of it..
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Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 46 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 27 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 90 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 97 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 72 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 53 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 86 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 68 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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