MIRROR NEW PROSECUTOR BRINGS HOPE - VOWS TO SOLVE CASE

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-madeleine-mccann-prosecutor-vowed-4417866

New Madeleine McCann prosecutor has vowed to solve the case - bringing fresh hope to her parents
Oct 10, 2014 22:30 By David Collins
High-flying investigator Ines Sequeira has taken on the case and British detectives believe her appointment will shake up the investigation

A new prosecutor has been put in charge of the Madeleine McCann case – and has vowed to solve it.

High-flying investigator Ines Sequeira said she was “utterly determined” to crack the case, bringing fresh hope to Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry.

British detectives believe the appointment will shake up the probe and Scotland Yard officers will fly out next week to discuss a shortlist of seven prime suspects with their Portuguese counterparts.

A source close to the inquiry said: “Ms Sequeira is one of the sharpest and most ambitious prosecutors in Portugal. She is utterly determined to get a result on the Madeleine inquiry.

“British police are telling the McCanns they’re doing everything in their power to find out what happened.”

It is understood the investigation into Alice Gross, a 14-year-old schoolgirl found dead in west London, held up Operation Grange as resources were diverted during a huge search effort last week.

British police will arrive in Portugal next week to discuss plans to interrogate the seven shortlisted suspects and request permission to search their homes.

British detectives are trying to get a fifth letter of international request approved by the Portuguese authorities, which would allow them to continue their work on the ground in Portugal.

The Met’s Operation Grange team, set up to review the case, believe Madeleine may have been killed during a bungled break-in at the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz in May, 2007 while her parents were eating out nearby.

They will interview three of the seven suspects for a second time and request permission to search their homes.

The three suspects to be re-interviewed are understood to be Jose Carlos Fernandes da Silva, an ex-worker at the Ocean Club resort, Paulo Ribeiro, who looks like a man seen near the apartment, and charity collector Ricardo Rodrigues.

Portugal’s Attorney General gave the go-ahead for the country’s own Madeleine McCann investigation to be reopened in May at the request of the country’s Policia Judiciaria police force - more than five years after the probe had been shelved.

The reopening of the investigation coincided with news a former employee at the Ocean Club holiday resort where Madeleine disappeared had been identified as a suspect.

Recovering heroin addict Euclides Monteiro, a convicted burglar, died in a tractor accident in 2009.

His widow Luisa Rodrigues was interviewed by Portuguese detectives but insisted he was an innocent man and has been fighting to get authorities to confirm they have now ruled him out as a suspect.

Madeleine’s parents have been buoyed up by the joint efforts of the two country’s police forces.

They believe Madeleine, who would now be aged 11, could still be alive.

McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry will not comment on Operation Grange."

Postby tigerloaf » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:40 pm
I see Joana Morais in these comments which she wrote to add to her blog piece about the change of prosecutor in the Madeleine case told us (as if we didn't know already) that the PT justice system leaks like a, well like a leaky sieve to be honest.

       Regarding the behaviour of the UK media related to this news

       . In Portugal the Oporto PJ coordinated by Monteiro is just conducting a review of the process, so a new prosecutor means nothing, unless the PJ is able to conduct an investigation without hindrance and/or further external pressures.

       . This is an attempt to pressure the new Prosecutor a few days before Redwood's team returns to Portugal, ie, now that the prosecutor's name is in under the spotlight she "has to approve" all steps requested by the English rogatory letter, no matter how risible or unevidenced they may be.

       . The prosecutor would never talk to/with the press without PGR/Public Ministry consent.

       . Someone's leaking to Mirror, where else would they have found Inês Sequeira's name?

       . Spin was added to the articles, citing the prosecutor. If the allegations are true then something must be done about it (breach of secrecy of justice).

       . When will the PGR (AGO) Dr. Joana Marques Vidal put an end to the ignominious British pressure and numerous interferences?

Its also amusing that instead of being a genuine journalist which of course she isn't and never has been, she does the amateur blogger's trick of just guessing what is going on. She implies that the prosecutor would not talk to the press for example. Perhaps there was permission which JM simply isn't aware of?

But funniest of all is the claim by Morais that something must be done about the comments attributed to the prosecutor because (presumably the prosecutor) has broken the secrecy rules.

In no other society would a supposed freedom of speech campaigner ever complain that a prosecutor was being quoted for saying that she wanted to see a case solved. Morais is living in that other universe I think, the one I referred to in a post yesterday. Her ideas relating to justice are completely bizarre.

Oh and her bee in her bonnet about the UK putting pressure on Portugal hardly does any favours for the reputation of Portuguese Politicians or Justice officials does it? Is she implying it is easy to manipulate them? It certainly looks like that and to be frank, having seen just how many corruption cases they are dealing with, I think she might be right.