Met Police 'bring expertise' to Madeleine McCann search

[The Dragon Master]

The Metropolitan Police are to bring their expertise to the search for Madeleine McCann, the Home Office says.



Madeleine went missing aged three on holiday in Portugal in May 2007.



David Cameron has written to her parents telling them the home secretary will be in touch to set out the new action involving the Met Police.



Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, said they welcomed the news, which came after they asked Mr Cameron to launch a review of the case.



In a statement they said: We welcome the government's response. This is clearly a step in the right direction.



The expertise of the Metropolitan Police is renowned and we are reassured by our government's commitment to the search for Madeleine.

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[Bryd0]

I can't believe it's been four years since she disappeared. I hope she's okay and arrive. The last time I recall, the Portuguese police didn't do a good enough job searching for her. I hope the UK police don't let us down.

 

[Jazzy]

Why are they not following up on this lead?



A private investigator says he has identified two key suspects in the 2007 kidnapping of Madeleine McCann and believes she was taken to the United States.



Marcelino Italiano, 36, told the Sun he's informed police that the then 3-year-old was taken by a Portuguese pedophile ring that hunts children in the Algarve region of southern Portugal then smuggles them out of the country, the Sun reported.



I know these people were involved and I have been told that Madeleine may now be in America, he said. …I think there have been over a dozen children kidnapped. They prey on the weak and vulnerable.



Madeleine vanished in May of 2007 while vacationing with her family in Algarve.



Italiano told the Sun the ruthless ring has high-level contacts in the Portuguese government and links to a law firm in London and has already attacked him twice during his investigation.



He said he's given a dossier of information -- including the names and photographs of two prominent businessmen he suspects in the kidnapping – to police in Huelva, Spain, who passed in on to Portuguese authorities.



Portuguese police as well as private investigators hired by the Find Madeleine Fund are investigating the claims.



Source link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/1...ine-mccann-kidnapped-pedophile-ring-possibly/