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Evening Standard
Lisbon: The police search for Madeleine McCann came under fire yesterday
as a leading expert said the Portuguese investigation had been plagued with
"serious errors."
Former Surrey officer Mark Williams-Thomas
said detectives had failed to seal off the apartment when the toddler vanished,
had not made a direct public appeal, and had not carried out proper forensic
searches.
He said the investigation had hit "a brick wall" as a result and
called for British detectives to carry out a full review of the case to ensure
that everything was being done to find Madeleine.
Her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, were at the same time making an emotional
pilgrimage to a Portuguese shrine to pray for the safe return of their
daughter.
Meanwhile, forensic tests on evidence gathered in the case of the girl who
vanished 20 days ago during a family vacation in Portugal are still far from being
completed, a senior official said yesterday. The head of the National Forensic
Medicine Institute, Duarte Nuno Vieira, denied media reports that tests on
hair, fibre and sweat samples taken from the hotel room where Madeleine McCann
disappeared had yielded no clues. "The analyses are ongoing," Vieira
told Lisbon
radio station TSF. "They're far from over, and we'll only be able to draw
conclusions once they're completed...Things don't go as fast as they do on
television." |
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NEWS MAY 2007 |
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