After news channels started buzzing the story of British police on the ground in Portugal in the ongoing hunt for Madeleine McCann almost two weeks ago, officers from Scotland Yard led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood finally flew in to Faro on Tuesday.
As so often happens in this case, ‘news’ of what was happening preceded any official statements. All the press know for sure is that four men, including Redwood, have now met with the PJ’s director Luís Mota Carmo.
This latest visit follows a letter of request sent by the Crown Prosecution Service in UK to the prosecution service in Portugal. Contents of the letter are unknown, but speculation centres on the possibility that Met detectives want to follow-up mobile phone records and interview three ‘burglars’ whose phones were apparently ‘red hot’ after three-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s rented apartment while on holiday in Praia da Luz in May 2007.
