WikiLeaks cables: UK police 'developed' evidence against McCanns

[sabra]

Source: Guardian UK

British ambassador's reported comments to US counterpart offer insight into role of UK police in 2007 investigation

British police helped to "develop evidence" against Madeleine McCann's parents as they were investigated by Portuguese police as formal suspects in the disappearance of their daughter, the US ambassador to Portugal was told by his British counterpart in September 2007.

The meeting between US ambassador Al Hoffman and the British ambassador, Alexander Wykeham Ellis, took place a fortnight after Kate and Gerry McCann were formally declared arguidos, or suspects, by Portuguese police.

In a diplomatic cable marked confidential, the US ambassador reported: "Without delving into the details of the case, Ellis admitted that the British police had developed the current evidence against the McCann parents, and he stressed that authorities from both countries were working co-operatively."

The comments attributed to the ambassador appear to contradict the widespread perception at the time that Portuguese investigators were the driving force behind the treatment of the McCanns as suspects in the case.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/13/wikileaks-madeleine-mccann-british-police

[Arctic Dave]

1. More meaningless gossip. Move along, nothing to see here.

[drm604]

2. I just want to point out that

while it is true that this particular one is meaningless gossip, your characterization of it as "more meaningless gossip" may give the impression to some that all of the cables are meaningless gossip, which of course is not true.

I don't think you intended it that way, but some may read it like that. :hi:

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