Madeleine McCann cops ask Home Office for more money to continue search for missing child

Ahleckz said:
There has to be a cap, we can't indefinteily have a number of officers focusing on this investigation. Cases get closed all the time due to lack of evidence, no leads, etc. Some are reopened but many (most?) aren't as there just aren't new lines of inquiry. Why has this one been allowed to continue so much longer than others?

What do you propose? We investigate every single crime, to completion, every single time? Because whilst that may be great in perfectland, it's just not possible is it?
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I propose new leads are investigated to a sufficient degree as with any criminal case.

Kenai said:
The point is being made because the cost and time is huge compared to other cases, so it will absolutely increase pressure for results.

Take April Jones case as an example - this is a case also held up as an example of a 'huge cost' case and that came in at £2.5m with the active searching for her body abandoned after a year.

£11m on one specific case is relatively speaking, astronomical, so he's absolutely on point to suggest they'll be feeling under pressure to deliver a result, especially as it's been ongoing and active so much longer than other cases too.
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Unlike in April Jone's case there has been no evidence that Madeline was killed, whilst they found bone fragments while searching the lead suspect's home and after the leads were exhausted it made sense to call it off given the evidence.

The Geezer said:
Whilst a tragic story, I'm struggling to see a positive outcome after all this time.

I have to admit it is a terrific amount of money spent on a single case of a missing child, if we were treat ALL missing children in the same manner who would fund it ?
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Unfortunately this is not like most missing children cases.
 
diamount said:
Unlike in April Jone's case there has been no evidence that Madeline was killed, whilst they found bone fragments while searching the lead suspect's home and after the leads were exhausted it made sense to call it off given the evidence.
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The point I was making, is that AFAIK, that is the next most expensive 'missing persons' case the UK has seen and that's 4 to 5 times less costly than this is. That is why the point was raised - he wasn't saying 'no cases older than 10 years should be investigated' as you've tried to infer from it, he was simply pointing out that the team behind it are clearly under huge pressure to achieve something, given just how much money and time has been invested into the case that no other similar (or dissimilar) missing person's case has come anywhere close to.
 
Kenai said:
The point I was making, is that AFAIK, that is the next most expensive 'missing persons' case the UK has seen and that's 4 to 5 times less costly than this is. That is why the point was raised - he wasn't saying 'no cases older than 10 years should be investigated' as you've tried to infer from it, he was simply pointing out that the team behind it are clearly under huge pressure to achieve something, given just how much money and time has been invested into the case that no other similar (or dissimilar) missing person's case has come anywhere close to.
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Nonsense, there are plenty of cold cases that remain dormant and the police are under no pressure to 'close them'. Fact is there is fresh leads and they are being investigated and in the grand scheme of things that 10 million number being thrown about doesn't seem that much considering the scale and time period, i.e multinational cooperation, state lines, etc etc. There really is no comparison to any other missing case.

Also - stop getting hung up over the monetary aspect. It's trivial.
 
diamount said:
Nonsense, there are plenty of cold cases that remain dormant and the police are under no pressure to 'close them'. Fact is there is fresh leads and they are being investigated and in the grand scheme of things that 10 million number being thrown about doesn't seem that much considering the scale and time period, i.e multinational cooperation, state lines, etc etc. There really is no comparison to any other missing case.

Also - stop getting hung up over the monetary aspect. It's trivial.
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You only think it's trivial because you've decided to 'read between the lines' and conclude that he's saying no old cases should be investigated, when he said absolutely nothing of the sort. He only commented on the pressure they'll be under to achieve results from a case that has been active for so long and has been funded so heavily.

Edit - and you are right on one important aspect - this isn't like other missing persons cases that are dormant, this has remained an ongoing active investigation with assigned teams for over ten years. It's not like it was dormant and just got picked back up because of a new lead.

This is part of what adds to the pressure for success he was posting about - it's not a case that has been sat dormant with no expectation of progress, it has been constantly assigned investigative resources.
 
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Ah, this old chestnut again.

Can we talk about the Mcann's again and how they did it? I've forgotten all the highlights now there's so many question marks and inconsistencies surrounding this dodgy couple.
 
Given that the accused has a history of recording the abuse of his victims, I suspect that the authorities have found video evidence of her death. Utterly sickening. Also, in relation to the parents, the only thing they are guilty of is neglect; leaving their children alone in the apartment. Imo..
 
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