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‘HEART-BREAKING’ FAILURES IN SEARCH FOR OUR MADELEINE.

HOMEPAGE NEWS REPORTS INDEX NEWS FEBRUARY 2010
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Original Source: EXPRESS: SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2010
Saturday February 20,2010 By Mark Reynolds
 

Kate and Gerry McCann called for a full case review at an emotional press conference.

KATE and Gerry McCann yesterday branded the Portuguese police “inhumane” for their “heartbreaking” failure to investigate new leads in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance.

During an emotional press conference, the couple called for a full case review and stressed they should not be forced to “beg” for co-operation between the British and Portuguese authorities.

Speaking the day after a court upheld a ban on a book which claims Madeleine is dead, the pair appealed for fresh help from ­officials to find their daughter.

Mr McCann said: “You would hope that the parents of a missing child shouldn’t have to be here begging for such assistance and that the authorities would actually do everything in their power in the first place.”

The McCanns, both 41, have employed private detectives to search for their daughter since she went missing from Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007.

They said there were cases where their investigators had passed leads on to the Portuguese authorities and Leicestershire Police, their local force, only for them to be ignored.

Mr McCann said: “There are certainly instances where information which we think is very credible and worthy of further investigation has not been actioned. We’re gutted, it’s absolutely shocking and difficult.”

His wife added: “It’s heartbreaking, to be honest.”

Asked about how Leicestershire Police and other authorities responded to requests for a full independent review of the case, Mr McCann said the couple had encountered “reluctance”.

He said: “We don’t think there’s been a systematic review of all the information and the leads, and that’s something that would be automatically done in the United Kingdom. I think for a missing British citizen, that’s what we’re looking for

“We want the authorities to work together. It is an international case and always has been. We feel that it is fundamental to try to find Madeleine for a ­systematic review to take place.”

The couple welcomed the court ruling in Lisbon maintaining a ban on former ­Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral’s book, Maddie: The Truth Of The Lie.

The book alleges the girl died in her family’s holiday flat and her parents faked her abduction, something they strongly deny.

The McCanns said their main motive for challenging Mr Amaral was the fear that people would stop looking for Madeleine if they thought she was dead.

The couple are also seeking €1.2million (£1.08million) in compensation for defamation in separate civil proceedings against the former policeman in Portugal

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