Madeleine McCann: Leicestershire Police, Jet Trips And Maddie Cops
MADELEINE McCann has not been in the news much of late. But the Mirror can now report that “Maddy cops £22K bill for 196 jet trips”.
Yep, just over £112 for each flight, or jet trip, as the Mirror calls travelling by air. Nto much when you look at like that. But, still, where did the “Maddie cops” fly and what did they discover?
The flights were taken to Portugal by Leicestershire Constabulary from May 2007 to July 2008. The exact cost was £22,055.
The force said:
“Officers used budget airlines.”
Well, yes. and good that they British police took the time and trouble to help in the search for a missing British national. Will they now do the same for all Brits who go missing overseas, or is the media’s Our Maddie a special case?
Revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, the total cost of the first year of the probe to the force was £500,000, most of which will be met by the Home Office.
You can’t put a price on a child…
The search for Shannon Matthews is estimated to have cost the taxpayer £5million.
And Shannon was under the uncle’s bed.
The search for Madeleine McCann has not cost the taxpayer much at all.
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Composite file e-fits of potential suspects which have built up since Madeleine McCann went missing two years ago. From left, a suspect described by Jane Tanner, one of the friends on holiday with the McCanns in May 2007, of a man walking with a child in his arms away from the holiday apartment where Madeleine was sleeping on the night she disappeared, image of a suspects face and a full length image made public in January last year based on a statement given by Gail Cooper, a British holidaymaker. Black and white computer-generated e-fits of two suspicious men seen hanging around Praia da Luz before Madeleine went missing which were released from official police files after Portuguese authorities shelved their investigation but which were never made public by detectives and a e-fit of a suspect released as part of a new TV documentary to mark the second anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance. The artist's impression shows a pock-marked and 'very ugly' man who appeared to be watching the apartment where the little girl was staying with her family on the day before she vanished.
Posted: 26th, April 2010 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
