McCanns have hired ex-SAS and M15 experts to launch their own hunt?

Question

They have brought in crack detectives to follow the leads the Portuguese police failed to investigate Thoughts? I feel a glimmer of hope, you?

James: For the same reason that mercenaries exist, they do not to stay within the boundaries that police have to. They are focused on one job. They have the finance and man power to follow up every lead. The finance to buy information, many people will sell their soul, let alone their nearest and dearest.

Sez: If your child went missing and you didn't put yourself in the public eye and use the media, the general public wouldn't remember her name after 4 1/2 months, sad but reality.

Tim: Both my papers say hireD.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/09/24/mccanns-we-ll-find-maddy-ourselves-89520-19836742/
http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2517988.ece

Scary: When my Dad retired from the Paratroopers he was a mercenary, that's why I speak a few languages and have lived abroad most of my life. Guess that's why dole dossers like justmeb..irritate me, mere shadows of real men

Answer 1

I agree with you freethinker. It's ridiculous that they have to account for every step they have taken just to appease the public in the finding of their daughter. So much for PRIVATE investigating. eh!
The primal being emphasis on PRIVATE does not seem to seem to come into it on here. It doesn't matter what they do. Next we will be hearing that they are wasting money on private investigators rather than doing it themselves.
The amount of moaning about what the McCann's do or don't do to find their daughter is unbelievable. Why can't people just agree to differ on this instead of the typical snipes that I have come to expect on here now. I wonder what they would do under similar circumstances.
We do not have a given right to know every step that is taken to accomplish their goal until the child is found. Why can't people understand that, if they were to make everything public, their would be no point in hiring a private investigator in the first place.

Answer 2

SAS and MI5, eh?

Why go down the military / intelligence route when this is so clearly a police and judicial matter? The SAS and MI5 are the very best in their respective fields of expertise, but detectives they are not.

Perhaps the McCanns' PR people think that Maddie may have been snatched by Osama Bin Laden or a rogue ex-KGB operative?

Or perhaps the PR team just realised that references to special forces & spooks makes for a much sexier press-release and headline than humdrum boring old 'private investigators'?

I would honestly love to share a glimmer of hope here (for Maddie) but I can't help feeling that this is just more spin. Still, someone's got to get to the truth sooner or later, one way or another....

Additional note:
I see a subsequent poster - ScareyMary – has every confidence that these (ex)Special Forces guys will succeed where the police and judicial authorities have ‘failed’ (if one narrowly interprets ‘failure’ as the inability to concur with Kate and Gerry’s version of events).

Whatever my misgivings about the McCanns (I don’t know them, so I guess I really mean The McCann Media Machine, rather than the two individuals) I do hope that poor little Maddie is still alive and well somewhere, and I genuinely hope any renewed search will result in a positive outcome.

However, I cannot share ScareyMary’s gung-ho “they can do this” attitude, as these Special Forces haven’t been entirely successful in smoking out insurgents and recovering kidnap victims in Iraq – witness the dreadful butchery of poor Ken Bigley and many others, so publicly, wickedly and grotesquely broadcast on Al Jazeera and the internet, and right under the very noses of the “1000s of mercenaries” and super-doopah private security guys.

So I stick by my original point: say ‘private investigator’ in a press release and no-one listens, but hint at the glamour and excitement of SAS and MI5 involvement and journalists’ ears will always prick up. Sadly, this is is just so much more spin, and I really do wish they'd stop it !

Answer 3

Don't you think that too many stories and leaked information, whether it be true or not has actually harmed the search for Madeleine? I am confused and don't know what to think, like lots of other people. You hope that they are innocent and that someone has Madeleine, but will we ever know the real truth. This will go on for a long time i think and everyone will always wonder what the became of Madeleine. I think it is so sad and I partly blame the portugese for all the errors made in the beginning when she first went missing. If our own detectives were allowed out there straight away i am sure things would have turned out differently. These are my own persosnal views. God Bless Madeleine

Answer 4

A glimmer of hope no not really
There was a mi5 intellegence led raid on potential terrorists abode in london
first raid=wrong address
after half hour of tooing and throwing
a second raid was launched
this too was a wrong address-you couldnt make it up!
third raid=about 1 hour later was the correct address but the occupants had left the place by that time and was picked up by police going about their merry way to prayers at the local mosque
SAS would be good but they do tend to be for obliterating
enemy army units and are not for capturing a nut~job walking down the high street hand in hand with a small child,a bit like putting a tin tack into the wall using a 50lb sledge hammer i would have thought

Answer 5

I find it interesting how a few days ago the focus was on the McCanns being guilty and the supposed DNA evidence that the Portuguese police have had. Now there are news that the Portuguese police team that is handling the case have a history of concocting stories and cover ups, and how the DNA evidence is unrealiable, and just today reports of a second sighting of a girl resembling Maddie in Morocco.

Hmmm....

Answer 6

Yeah its great that they'll have experts on the job! but isn't it a shame that it is necessary, surely a police force shouldnt be so incompetent, that this is required.
I would do the same thing if I was in the Mccanns shoes and had the funding that they have. I'll continue to have hope for madeleine until evidence to suggest she is dead comes to light. x

Answer 7

Faith how do you know they hired them from the start? They said themselves they would not be hiring them. Is there a link to this?

So these detectives are going to Morroco? Where she was sighted 4 months ago? Hmm interesting. Well if they know for sure where exactly she is then it would not hurt them any of some detectives were on a wild goose chase to Morraco. If indeed she was not kidnapped.

Scary..I would not be so quick to say Great Minds when you are referring to yourself and people that neglected their children to the point where one of them is missing. Not something I would be proud of. And is only going to give the trolls something to insult you with.

Answer 8

WOW!

I can't believe it. I emailed them the other day, Saturday I think, with this suggestion... Probably was already thought of, but hey, great minds!

Good for them. This is a positive step.

The person above who said "why go down a military route" these are EX military. Private Soldiers. Like the 1000's of Mercenaries in Iraq. If they can go to Iraq and smoke out insurgents, they can go to Morocco and try to find a child. No Problemo.

Answer 9

People on here don't want hope. Sad to say all they want are reasons to keep on kicking the parents when they are down all ready. That's what bully's do.

I have never given up hope as it's all that you have some times and if that's what Maddies parents have to do to try and find her then good on them. I'm sure they will do a better job than the Portuguese police who have given up and just want the case closed.

Answer 10

All I have ever wanted to know is , what happened to Maddie, and where is she now.
Hopefully, the parents will soon have some
answers now these experts are involved.
I feel this is a positive step.