“Operation Grange detectives have refused to say what the “final line of enquiry” is”, affirm reports, but it continues to be used as justification for yet more British Home Office funding with a view to discovering what happened to Madeleine McCann – the little girl who vanished almost 11 years ago from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz.
The new tranche of £150,000 will purportedly take Grange forwards for another six months.
Coincidentally, a new thesis on the mystery – only last month mailed to Portugal’s Attorney General in the hope that it might change the status quo (click here) – appears to have fallen on stony ground.
The theory, developed over the years by a number of professionals – including a former British police superintendent – challenges the starting point of Grange, which has consistently run-up against claims that its remit is far too narrow (click here) and that the £11 million and rising spent on it this far has been “an expensive farce”.
Certainly, last night’s news regarding the new tranche of funding has prompted an outpouring of criticism from online readers – particularly in the Sun which is, as we write, allowing no-holds-barred comments through, apparently unmonitored.
natasha.donn@algarveresident.com
