You obviously haven't read the 'Actual Sunday Times' article !!
Madeleine e-fits were hidden away for five years
" One of the investigators whose work was sidelined said last week he was utterly stunned when he watched the programme and saw the evidence his team had passed to the McCanns five years ago presented as a breakthrough....."
" The report also raised questions about anomalies in the statements given by the McCanns and their friends......"
" Exton confirmed last week that the fund had silenced his investigators for years after they handed over their controversial findings. He said:
A letter came from their lawyers binding us to the confidentiality of the report.
He claimed the legal threat had prevented him from handing over the report to Scotland Yards fresh investigation, until detectives had obtained written permission from the fund....
[The report] was hypercritical of the people involved . . . It just wouldnt be conducive to the investigation to have that report publicly declared because . . . the newspapers would have been all over it......"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article3906190.ece
This means nothing. The fund had lawyers which dealt with the investigators and they included a confidentiality clause. Confidentiality clauses cannot extend to criminal matters so there was nothing to stop oakley giving the reports to the police. The fund actually had to tell him to hand them over to the police. And the report was given to police less than a year later so hardly silenced for years unless he wanted to sell his story to red tops. You have also not quoted the article directly, but taken selected pieces out and not included the correction report.