Madeleine McCann investigation re-opened

Everyone wants to see Madeleine McCann back home, but the £3.5 million being spent on re-opening a four year old case is a gross misuse of public funds.

Thirty police officers from the stretched Metropolitan Police, some of whom are, granted, taking voluntary redundancy or near retirement, will work the case.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has told the Mirror that "no limit will be put on the investigation, led by Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood of the Met's Homicide and Serious Crime Command.

Only London Assembly member Jenny Jones, Labour's Lord Harris (a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority) and Liberal Democrat peer and vice-chairman of Thames Valley Police Authority Lord Bradshaw have had the guts to criticise this use of public funds during a recession.

David Cameron has simply found what he believes is a good public relations exercise, one that will play well among the mass media(until they decide to turn on the McCanns to sell more papers and get more mouse clicks).

The Carlisle News and Star's Anne Pickles has written a particularly gusting defence of David Cameron.

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It is simply odious that this case gets so much more resources and money than the other 250000 people who go missing or run away each year.

Why not donate to Missing People and give these others a chance?

They don't get top billing in the Sun and their parents aren't invited onto GMTV, but their friends and family miss them just as much as Madeleine McCann's do.