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Maddy's case may be re-opened by new home
secretary Theresa May |
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HOME Secretary
Theresa May has asked to meet
Kate and
Gerry McCann, signalling she intends to tell them she will
order a new investigation into their missing daughter Madeleine.
Mrs May wrote to the McCanns last week asking them to come to the Home
Office in what is being described as a ?positive step? by department
officials.
A
senior Home Office source said: ?The Home Secretary has already
exchanged letters with Kate and Gerry about the case and will be meeting
them shortly to discuss how the investigation is being taken forward. It
would not be appropriate to pre-empt that meeting or give details of the
work.?
A
new team of
detectives, most likely from Scotland Yard, could soon get
the mammoth task of raking over
all files from Portuguese detectives,
police in Leicestershire and private investigators.
Since taking office, Mrs May has taken a close interest in the case. Her
predecessor, Labour?s
Alan Johnson, last March ordered a
costing of a review of evidence and the outline of how a new probe would
work into finding out what happened to
Madeleine, then three, of Rothley, Leics, who vanished from
Praia da Luz
on the Algarve in May 2007.
Sources say that Mrs May felt Mr Johnson made the right decision and the
internal report is almost complete.
Mr
Johnson acted after
Jim Gamble, head of the Child Online and Protection Centre,
wrote a report for the Home Office analysing police investigations here
and in Portugal.
His report, which has not been released publicly, outlines how a new
approach could produce new leads. |
