Found both these articles on Mirro Forum, both interesting reading.
From Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pag.....ge_id=1770
Hogans website
www.ehogans.com
The McCanns bring in cold-case detectives to investigate Madeleine's disappearance
By DAN NEWLING and VANESSA ALLEN
Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a former Met Police officer to carry out a "cold case" review into Madeleine's disappearance.
Noel Hogan, a former CID detective, has spent hundreds of hours interviewing British witnesses in the case.
He has also gone through each witness's existing statements line by line. Among those he has interviewed include the socalled "Tapas seven" who were on holiday with the McCanns in Praia da Luz last May.
He is also thought to have taken Kate and Gerry McCann through their own statements in minute detail.
Mr Hogan spent eight years in the Met where he reached the rank of detective superintendent.
Since 1986 he has run his own detective agency in Surrey, Hogan International, which claims to have extensive experience dealing with missing-person cases.
Mr Hogan had been investigating one of the 7/7 suicide bombers before the terror attacks in 2005 after the man's bank became suspicious of his spending patterns.
When contacted by the Daily Mail, Mr Hogan confirmed that he had spoken to many of the holidaymakers now back in Britain.
He said: "I have been reinterviewing a number of the witnesses that were out in Portugal at the time."
He added that his investigation would tie in with the enquiry being conducted by the Spanish detective agency Metodo 3 in Barcelona.
Since four-year- old Madeleine's disappearance, well-wishers have contributed over £1million to the fund to help find her.
The McCanns have spent much of this money on Metodo 3, which is being paid £50,000 a month to lead the search for their daughter.
However, the couple are understood to have become increasingly disillusioned with the firm, after its head detective Francisco Marco made a series of wild public statements.
Mr Marco claimed to know for a fact that the missing toddler was being kept in North Africa and would be home by Christmas.
But yesterday a source close to the family said that Kate and Gerry were keeping faith with Metodo 3 in spite of their concerns.
But the source confirmed that they have also authorised the employment of Mr Hogan to coordinate the UK end of the investigation.
The McCanns' official spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, declined to comment.
Metodo 3 are currently trying to re-interview an Irish family who said they saw a man carrying away a child on the night Madeleine disappeared.
Martin Smith and his family-from Drogheda in Co. Louth, told police about the sighting - which is strikingly similar to one by a friend of the McCanns, Jane Tanner.
They described a barefoot child and a man wearing beige trousers walking towards the beach in Praia da Luz, about 400yards from the McCanns' holiday apartment.
However, they said that the man was definitely not official suspect Robert Murat, whom they had met before and would have recognised.
Mr Smith even flew back to Portugal to give evidence but said he had not been contacted by police since making a statement in May.
http://www.correiomanha.pt/not.....&p=200
Investigation: The Public Prosecutor did not request the continuation of the secrecy
The PJ maintains it was a murder
The Judiciary Police tomorrow will deliver an interim report in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and continues to consider the crime as a murder.
The researchers maintained that the minor was killed accidentally by their parents, who later hid the corpse. Gerry and Kate can still be accused of simulation of a crime, for asking for the help of the police to look for the girl.
In parallel, and because that was the thesis when Murat was declared arguido, the process maintains the thesis of abduction. Hypothesis that was 'consumed" in the development of the investigation, when the elements of the PJ gathered evidence that pointed to the murder. Since the British resident in Praia da Luz is still an arguido, the characterization of abduction persists in the investigation.
Tomorrow, the researchers will also deliver the rogatory letters to the Court of Portimão, which will be sent to England next week. They will have the questions that must be made to the friends who spent holidays in the Algarve with the McCanns and only after that the PJ will consider if they will question again the child's parents.
Before that,the CM knows, the investigation will not be concluded. "We cannot do it before the rogatory letters are fulfilled," said a source to the CM.
This step does not require, automatically,the maintenance of the secrecy of justice. Indeed, yesterday, the public prosecutor had not requested an extension of the secrecy, and he may still do so tomorrow, the first day after the judicial holidays and when the non-urgent procedures (such as the case of the disappearance of Maddie) run again in the Court.
In the first dispatch to maintain the secrecy of the proceedings, the judge justtified it with the media of the case, and at the time he did not decree the special complexity of the process. What can still be done tomorrow.
GERRY AT FULL-TIME WORK
Eight months after the disappearance of his daughter, Gerry McCann, of 39 years, returned yesterday to work full time. According to the electronic edition of the English newspaper 'Daily Mail', the specialist in cardiology will devote himself to the profession. However, Gerry agreed with the administration of the hospital in Glenfield that he will leave aside surgeries. Since November 1st he was working part-time,but Gerry has already shown that he is balanced and therefore was allowed to return full time. The idea is to make his life as normal as possible, spite of not knowing what happened to Maddie. The couple will however, according to the 'Leicester Mercury', discuss strategies with the lawyers to revive the campaign for Maddie.
MURAT AWAITS TO BE CLEARED
Robert Murat looks forward to the coming events.
Tomorrow he can stop being an arguido if the public prosecutor makes an interim report of no accusation to the British. The prosecutor could also interpret that the deadlines of the investigation extends to date when he was made arguido which will happen next January 14, after the completion of eight months.
The partial filing orders, are unusual, with only one recent case. It was the process that involved Nobre Guedes, former minister of Santana Lopes, who saw the charges against him archived more than a year before the co-defendants had been accused.
DETAILS
NOT URGENT
Cases where there are no arrested arguidos are not urgent. They stop in judicial holidays (the judicial holidays only end today), when the courts are partially closed. This is the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
EXCEPTIONS TO THE LAW
The Council of the Judiciary Magistrates has the power to consider that a process is urgent, even if there is no one arrested. They did it in the process of Casa Pia, arguing with complexity of the investigation and the media of the case. They have not done so in the situation that involves the English girl.
Eduardo Dâmaso / Paul Marcelino / Tânia Laranjo
