Scotland Yard ask for extra cash to keep hunt for Madeleine McCann going for one more year

Scotland Yard ask for extra cash to keep hunt for Madeleine McCann going for one more year

• The police asked Home Office for more funding in hunt for Madeleine McCann
  
• In December last year Cressida Dick has reportedly backed Operation Grange
  
• Last year the probe into the missing girl's disappearance had also been granted £150,000 more funding by the Home Office
  

Jill Havern wrote:

Scotland Yard ask for extra cash to keep hunt for Madeleine McCann going for one more year

• The police asked Home Office for more funding in hunt for Madeleine McCann
  
• In December last year Cressida Dick has reportedly backed Operation Grange
  
• Last year the probe into the missing girl's disappearance had also been granted £150,000 more funding by the Home Office
  

By Bhvishya Patel For Mailonline
Published: 18:14, 1 March 2019  |  Updated: 18:56, 1 March 2019



Scotland Yard has asked that the Home Office provide another year of funding in the hunt for Madeleine McCann, according to Sky News.
The Home Office received the official request from detectives investigating the disappearance of the missing girl today as funding for Operation Grange  begins to run out.     
More than £11million has far been spent on trying to find Madeleine who went missing in Portugal on May 3, 2007.      
It is hoped the extra funding, which will see investigations continue until March 2020, will bring new hope in finding Madeleine.
In December, the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick had reportedly backed the long-running Operation Grange, which has so far cost some £11.75million, and defended the ongoing search for the British girl.
A month earlier, the probe into the missing girl's disappearance had also been granted £150,000 more funding by the Home Office.  

In a blog last year the Home Office had said: 'We have received and are considering a request from the Metropolitan Police Service to extend funding for Operation Grange until the end of March 2019.
'The Home Office maintains an ongoing dialogue with the MPS regarding.' 
So far more than £11million has been spent on the search for Madeleine, who disappeared more in 2007 as she slept in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal. 
Following a request by Home Secretary at the time Theresa May, the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine was launched in May 2011 and some 600 'persons of interest' were examined.

During the investigations officers also translated 40,000 documents produced by Portuguese police. 
However in 2015 the British investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine were scaled down from a team of 29 officers to just four.
At the time Scotland Yard had insisted that they would be continuing the search but with a 'smaller team

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6761819/Scotland-Yard-ask-extra-cash-hunt-Madeleine-McCann-going.html

Jill Havern wrote:One could be forgiven for thinking OG are trying to wear us all down and make us go away. Six months is one thing...but a whole year before we get anymore news? Clearly they don't expect to find Madeleine for at least another year.

There was also nothing in the article about the usual 'bouyancy' of the McCann couple.

Get on the case Tracey.

comperedna wrote: Anyone tell me what the Met WANT us to think?

comperedna wrote:True, Verdi... but its the word 'delicate' I don't get. Whatever scenario I try out in my head I can't see to what, or to whom delicate might be referring... a priest? a hitherto trusted close friend or family member?

comperedna wrote:I'm not 'clutching' the word delicate,aquila. I selected it out deliberately because I find it bizarre, and totally inappropriate and amongst all the Horlicks the Met have come up with, perhaps the oddest supposed justification for the unwarranted extension and the extra cash.

aquila wrote:

comperedna wrote:True, Verdi... but its the word 'delicate' I don't get. Whatever scenario I try out in my head I can't see to what, or to whom delicate might be referring... a priest? a hitherto trusted close friend or family member?

Why clutch the word 'delicate'?

comperedna wrote:I long ago went along with Amaral. I knew the case was a stinker way back when the Mirror forum was about the only place where it was discussed. It is the increasingly nutty justificationary verbiage from the yard that I was thinking about.

willowthewisp wrote:Are they innocent in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance!

Blackpied wrote:Everyone know's what happened ,police,politicians and even higher 
Than them, there has been no money spent by grange for a while
now they are just trying to break our spirit,full stop.

Tony Bennett wrote:This is a good way of suppressing dissent.

Many people will still think that the government and the police are entirely honest, and to be trusted, and will assume that the police really really do still have a realistic prospect of 'solving' the case.

Madeleine was born on 13 March 2003.

By the time this further extension runs out, it will be 31 March 2020 - and by then Madeleine, if still alive, would be nearing her 17th birthday - old enough to have got married and to start driving a car. The twins will have reached their 15th birthday.