Maddie's parents thank public for 'being on our side' after £300k funding boost
KATE and Gerry McCann have thanked the public for "being on our side" as they continue their desperate search for Madeleine.
They posted the moving message online after cops received a £300,000 funding boost to the £12million investigation this summer.
The couple said there's "still work to do" after the cash injection was announced in July by the Home Office more than 12 years after their daughter vanished.
They said this week: "Thank you for being by our side as we continue to search for Madeleine."
They have vowed to carry on the worldwide hunt “for as long as it takes” with or without the support of police.
We previously revealed Scotland Yard’s hunt for Madeleine McCann is being led by a top murder cop already battling London’s knife crime epidemic, The Sun can reveal.
Det Chief Insp Mark Cranwell has recently been put in part-time charge of Operation Grange, which has cost taxpayers £12 MILLION to date.
He runs a tiny four-cop team trying to crack a case the Met has been investigating for EIGHT years.
So far it has not made a single arrest – yet was still granted another £300,000 by the Home Office in June.
£12MILLION SEARCH
Shock figures showed blade offences had soared by seven per cent in the year to June, a record high.
DCI Cranwell is playing a leading role in trying to combat it – making a series of appeals to the public in a raft of recent teenage murders.
And a DNA expert in the US could provide a breakthrough in the Madeleine McCann case after he offered to analyse samples held in the UK.
Dr Mark Perlin has claimed his Cybernetics lab in Pittsburgh, which was used to identify victims of the 9/11 terror attack, could get results after testing in the UK failed to get any meaningful evidence.
Madeleine McCann went missing on May 3, 2007 while her family were on holiday in Praia da Luz and Portuguese cops sent the samples taken during the investigation and sent them to the UK’s Forensic Science Service (FSS) in Birmingham.
But the evidence was said to be “too complex” for the team and did not have a “meaningful inclusion/interpretation”.
DNA HOPE
Dr Perlin told the Daily Star Online: “Most of the apartment’s samples were taken from the wall, floor, and skirting board. One item was from the curtains.
“The mixture evidence could contain DNA from an unknown person who was not a member of the immediate McCann family.
“However, we wouldn’t know whether or not that stranger was actually an ‘intruder’.
“But the DNA results could provide an investigative lead, eg., for conducting a DNA database search to find the unknown person.
“And, once DNA from a suspected intruder became available, a TrueAllele comparison between the evidence and suspect would provide a match statistic.”
TrueAllele is a computer programme said to be able to analyse complex data, which Cybernetics has.
It uses a mathematical formula to determine statistical likelihood whether or not a particular genotype came from one person compared to another.
The programme is said to have been used in hundreds of cases since 2009.
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