Eddie and Keela investigating McCann apartment, vehicles and clothing. The dogs reacted only to McCann's vehicle and clothing. See: Official PJ (Portuguese police) report for details.
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Eddie and Keela Video - Madeleine McCann Investigation
Eddie and Keela investigating McCann apartment, vehicles and clothing. The dogs reacted only to McCann's vehicle and clothing. See: Official PJ (Portuguese police) report for details.
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Eddie & Keela Video: Spanish TV
New images of the work of the Cadaver dogs Eddie and Keela, released by Spanish TV Antena 3.
10 September 2008
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10 September 2008
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Sniffer Dogs search the McCanns Hired Car
"September 06, 2008 — A five minute section of the two hour forty five minute video showing the forensic dogs Eddie and Keela at work.
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McCann sniffer dog video released
5 September 2008
Press Association
A Portuguese police video showing British sniffer dogs reacting to Leicestershire couple Kate and Gerry McCann's hire car and their holiday apartment has been made public.
The two specialist animals - one capable of detecting corpses and the other trained to find human blood - carried out searches in the Algarve in early August last year after the McCanns' daughter Madeleine vanished.
Footage posted on The Sun newspaper's website shows the cadaver dog, named Eddie, barking loudly next to the driver's door of the McCanns' Renault Scenic rental car.
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Press Association
A Portuguese police video showing British sniffer dogs reacting to Leicestershire couple Kate and Gerry McCann's hire car and their holiday apartment has been made public.
The two specialist animals - one capable of detecting corpses and the other trained to find human blood - carried out searches in the Algarve in early August last year after the McCanns' daughter Madeleine vanished.
Footage posted on The Sun newspaper's website shows the cadaver dog, named Eddie, barking loudly next to the driver's door of the McCanns' Renault Scenic rental car.
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Kate McCann criticises Portuguese detective who wrote book
5 September 2008
Press Association National Newswire
Sam Marsden
Kate McCann has strongly criticised the Portuguese detective who named her and her husband Gerry as suspects in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance.
In the couple's first interview since they were formally cleared of involvement in the case, she attacked Goncalo Amaral's decision to write a book about the inquiry.
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Press Association National Newswire
Sam Marsden
Kate McCann has strongly criticised the Portuguese detective who named her and her husband Gerry as suspects in their daughter Madeleine's disappearance.
In the couple's first interview since they were formally cleared of involvement in the case, she attacked Goncalo Amaral's decision to write a book about the inquiry.
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Eddie and Keela (two forensic dogs) and their handler ex PC Martin Grime at work in Portugal on the case of Madeleine McCann
September 04, 2008 — A video showing Eddie and Keela (two forensic dogs) and their handler ex PC Martin Grime at work in Portugal on the case of Madeleine McCann. The dogs clearly alert to the scent of cadaver and blood on clothing in the hired Renault Scenic and in Apartment 5A where Drs Gerry and Kate McCann stayed with their family in Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Eddie and Keela, two of the most famous dog detectives in Europe used to work for South Yorkshire Police. Eddie and Keela are highly skilled sniffer dogs - technically known as victim recovery dogs - who search for and locate human remains. They have recently worked in Jersey on the Haut de la Garenne case.
The case surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine has been shelved by the Portuguese Policia Judiciara awaiting further evidence. A book about the case by Goncarlo Amaral has been released in Portugal - The Truth of the Lie.
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Eddie and Keela, two of the most famous dog detectives in Europe used to work for South Yorkshire Police. Eddie and Keela are highly skilled sniffer dogs - technically known as victim recovery dogs - who search for and locate human remains. They have recently worked in Jersey on the Haut de la Garenne case.
The case surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine has been shelved by the Portuguese Policia Judiciara awaiting further evidence. A book about the case by Goncarlo Amaral has been released in Portugal - The Truth of the Lie.
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We'll not give up on Kate...
We'll not give up on Kate...
The Citizen
16 May 2008
Today police are heading back to Redmarley to question villagers again over the suspected murder of a farmer's wife.
Anxious to turn up the vital clue which could locate missing Kate Prout, officers are spending the next three days quizzing residents.
It comes as we publish a picture of Mrs Prout (nee Wakefield) on the day she married Adrian Prout.
The picture, which appeared in The Citizen on November 9, 2000, portrays a country couple about to make a fresh start in life as they pose for the camera at the entrance of St Mary's Church, Frampton-on-Severn.
But just over seven years after this picture was taken, Mrs Prout vanished - sparking a massive police hunt which left a cloud of suspicion over Redmarley, in the Forest.
They believe the most likely explanation for her disappearance is that she was murdered.
Acting Detective Superintendent Neil Kelly, said: "We are going to give people in the village a chance to know we are coming, rather than turn up on their doorstep.
"We are firmly following a number of lines of inquiry. It's worth saying again that 30 people are still committed to the investigation.
"We are not winding down."
She was last heard of on November 5, 2007 and reported missing five days later by Mr Prout, 45.
She took no money, cash cards, clothes, or a car from their Redhill Farm home when she disappeared.
Around 200 acres of farmland around their £1.2 million property was scoured by more than 50 officers - but nothing was found.
They emptied a grain store, went through a pile of bark chippings, dived in ponds and a reservoir.
Even Eddie, the specialist sniffer "cadaver dog" who took part in the search for Madeleine McCann, could not find any trace of her. (***Blogger note: Eddie found cadaver scent in Prout home. In November 2011, Adrian Prout confessed to murdering Kate.)
An impassioned plea for information from one of her brothers, Richard Wakefield, from Far Oakridge, Stroud, drew no new clues.
Mr Prout ran a groundworks company and more recently pheasant shoots, and residents in Cam and Dursley, where water pipes were laid, have also been questioned.
One villager claimed residents told police that shortly before Mrs Prout's disappearance, the couple argued in the Rose and Crown pub in the village, and were planning to divorce and split the farm.
Twice Mr Prout has been arrested on suspicion of murder, held and questioned. And twice he has been released. He is on bail until September 9.
Three other people - Diane Bellamy, 48, from Bisley, Rose and Crown landlord Eric Woolley, 60, and a 43-year-old man, from Lydney, have been arrested, questioned and released without charge. Their bail has been cancelled.
Earlier this month the officer in charge of the case, acting detective superintendent Neil Kelly, announced in an open letter to the residents of Redmarley that his officers would be heading back to re-interview them, as some believed Mrs Prout had disappeared of her own volition.
He believes all the available evidence points to her being murdered.
And he told The Citizen that although they have not given up on finding Mrs Prout, the force would consider a prosecution without a body.
Today, and over the weekend, police will knock on doors again in Redmarley, a day later than originally planned.
Few in the village knew the couple well but she helped with flower arranging in the Redmarley church and enjoyed walking her dogs around Redhill Farm.
A retired teacher of 20 years' standing, she enjoyed gardening and was propagating a blueberry plantation on the farm.
But at the beginning of November, her seemingly peaceful rural existence came to an abrupt halt.
She was said to be happy and showed no signs of anything amiss when she visited Mr Wakefield and his wife Linda on November 2. She spoke to her again on November 5.
Police say the last time they knew she was alive was at 3.30pm on that day, when she spoke to her bank.
Her disappearance has left villagers confused and concerned.
"We are just wondering what extra we can say," said one villager, who did not wish to be named.
"But as time goes by, it just melts into the background.
"We have no problems with the police coming back if it brings a solution to the problem.
"The village itself is just in limbo.
"We would really like to know, one way or the other, what has happened.
"The farm is working, Mr Prout is keeping going - that's his right, it's his livelihood."
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The Citizen
16 May 2008
Today police are heading back to Redmarley to question villagers again over the suspected murder of a farmer's wife.
Anxious to turn up the vital clue which could locate missing Kate Prout, officers are spending the next three days quizzing residents.
It comes as we publish a picture of Mrs Prout (nee Wakefield) on the day she married Adrian Prout.
The picture, which appeared in The Citizen on November 9, 2000, portrays a country couple about to make a fresh start in life as they pose for the camera at the entrance of St Mary's Church, Frampton-on-Severn.
But just over seven years after this picture was taken, Mrs Prout vanished - sparking a massive police hunt which left a cloud of suspicion over Redmarley, in the Forest.
They believe the most likely explanation for her disappearance is that she was murdered.
Acting Detective Superintendent Neil Kelly, said: "We are going to give people in the village a chance to know we are coming, rather than turn up on their doorstep.
"We are firmly following a number of lines of inquiry. It's worth saying again that 30 people are still committed to the investigation.
"We are not winding down."
She was last heard of on November 5, 2007 and reported missing five days later by Mr Prout, 45.
She took no money, cash cards, clothes, or a car from their Redhill Farm home when she disappeared.
Around 200 acres of farmland around their £1.2 million property was scoured by more than 50 officers - but nothing was found.
They emptied a grain store, went through a pile of bark chippings, dived in ponds and a reservoir.
Even Eddie, the specialist sniffer "cadaver dog" who took part in the search for Madeleine McCann, could not find any trace of her. (***Blogger note: Eddie found cadaver scent in Prout home. In November 2011, Adrian Prout confessed to murdering Kate.)
An impassioned plea for information from one of her brothers, Richard Wakefield, from Far Oakridge, Stroud, drew no new clues.
Mr Prout ran a groundworks company and more recently pheasant shoots, and residents in Cam and Dursley, where water pipes were laid, have also been questioned.
One villager claimed residents told police that shortly before Mrs Prout's disappearance, the couple argued in the Rose and Crown pub in the village, and were planning to divorce and split the farm.
Twice Mr Prout has been arrested on suspicion of murder, held and questioned. And twice he has been released. He is on bail until September 9.
Three other people - Diane Bellamy, 48, from Bisley, Rose and Crown landlord Eric Woolley, 60, and a 43-year-old man, from Lydney, have been arrested, questioned and released without charge. Their bail has been cancelled.
Earlier this month the officer in charge of the case, acting detective superintendent Neil Kelly, announced in an open letter to the residents of Redmarley that his officers would be heading back to re-interview them, as some believed Mrs Prout had disappeared of her own volition.
He believes all the available evidence points to her being murdered.
And he told The Citizen that although they have not given up on finding Mrs Prout, the force would consider a prosecution without a body.
Today, and over the weekend, police will knock on doors again in Redmarley, a day later than originally planned.
Few in the village knew the couple well but she helped with flower arranging in the Redmarley church and enjoyed walking her dogs around Redhill Farm.
A retired teacher of 20 years' standing, she enjoyed gardening and was propagating a blueberry plantation on the farm.
But at the beginning of November, her seemingly peaceful rural existence came to an abrupt halt.
She was said to be happy and showed no signs of anything amiss when she visited Mr Wakefield and his wife Linda on November 2. She spoke to her again on November 5.
Police say the last time they knew she was alive was at 3.30pm on that day, when she spoke to her bank.
Her disappearance has left villagers confused and concerned.
"We are just wondering what extra we can say," said one villager, who did not wish to be named.
"But as time goes by, it just melts into the background.
"We have no problems with the police coming back if it brings a solution to the problem.
"The village itself is just in limbo.
"We would really like to know, one way or the other, what has happened.
"The farm is working, Mr Prout is keeping going - that's his right, it's his livelihood."
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Martin Grime Witness Statement: Madeleine McCann case
MARTIN GRIME : Witness Statement
05-CARTAS ROGATORIA 5 Pages 21 to 25
Translation
DVD Rogatory Letters 3rd volume
Martin Grime
Dated May 14 2008
I am a retired police offer, previously at the service of the South Yorkshire police. Between August 1-8, 2007, and while working for the South Yorkshire police, I collaborated with the Judicial Police, Portugal, as regards their Operations Task Force.
On the 17th of August 2007, I completed a report for the Head of Investigations of the Judicial Police, which was submitted by the Leicestershire Police. This report is exhibited as MG/1 and identified by the label bearing my signature. The Judicial Police is in possession of the originals of the search reports and the videos showing all searches performed and the reaction of the dogs. In addition to the report, Sam Harkeness of the Progresso National Police Agency sent me by email several written questions sent by the Judicial Police together with a request for a written deposition. This deposition was submitted without me having seen or having knowledge of the final report from the forensic agency responsible for analyzing the evidence submitted in this case.
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05-CARTAS ROGATORIA 5 Pages 21 to 25
Translation
DVD Rogatory Letters 3rd volume
Martin Grime
Dated May 14 2008
I am a retired police offer, previously at the service of the South Yorkshire police. Between August 1-8, 2007, and while working for the South Yorkshire police, I collaborated with the Judicial Police, Portugal, as regards their Operations Task Force.
On the 17th of August 2007, I completed a report for the Head of Investigations of the Judicial Police, which was submitted by the Leicestershire Police. This report is exhibited as MG/1 and identified by the label bearing my signature. The Judicial Police is in possession of the originals of the search reports and the videos showing all searches performed and the reaction of the dogs. In addition to the report, Sam Harkeness of the Progresso National Police Agency sent me by email several written questions sent by the Judicial Police together with a request for a written deposition. This deposition was submitted without me having seen or having knowledge of the final report from the forensic agency responsible for analyzing the evidence submitted in this case.
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Villagers living in fear that missing farmer's wife was killed by someone they know
Villagers living in fear that missing farmer's wife was killed by someone they know
The Times
Simon De Bruxelles
10 May 2008
It is Kate Prout's favourite time of year in the village of Redmarley D'Abitot, with wild flowers in the hedgerows and blossom trees in the well kept Gloucestershire gardens.
Yet Mrs Prout is not there to enjoy it. Today is exactly six months since her husband, Adrian, contacted police to say that he had not seen his wife for five days and she appeared to have gone missing.
It is unusual, but not unprece- dented, for middle-aged woman to leave their husbands without telling them where they are going. But Mrs Prout took nothing with her, not her purse and credit cards, nor her mobile telephone, her passport or any clothes, nor did she leave a note. She did not say goodbye to any members of her large and close-knit family.
What makes the disappearance of the retired teacher even more unusual is that the police do not believe she went anywhere. They are convinced that she has been murdered and that they know who did it: they just have not found the evidence - or her body - to prove it.
At 45, Adrian Prout is ten years his wife's junior. The couple married eight years ago when Kate was approaching the age at which her family wondered whether she would ever find the right man.
Both Kate and her new husband, who had been married before, came from farming backgrounds but had made their careers elsewhere. She had spent 20 years teaching in primary schools around Gloucestershire before taking early retirement in her forties.He had a successful business digging trenches and laying pipes.
Four years ago the couple bought Redhill Farm in Redmarley D'Abitot, a village between the Malvern Hills and the Cotswolds.Mrs Prout devoted herself to country life, arranging flowers in the church, walking their four dogs and transforming the garden.
Her husband set up two pheasant shoots and jealously guarded his privacy. One villager met him for the first time as she walked her dog. She said: "He was shouting at me to get off his land. He was really angry. I have been shouted at before but usually they calm down, you get chatting and you sort it out. That didn't happen."
The villager was so disturbed she talked to the farmer's wife. She said: "She was very nervous, cowed even. I could see that she wasn't happy."
Other residents have told police that shortly before Mrs Prout's disappearance, the couple argued in the local pub, the Rose and Crown, and were planning to divorce. They had recently had the farm valued at Pounds 1.2 million and Mrs Prout was expecting to take half of it.
On November 2 Mrs Prout drove to the village of Far Oakridge to visit her brother Richard Wakefield and his wife, Linda. She appeared happy and gave no indication that there was anything wrong. On November 5, Bonfire Night, she spoke to Linda in the afternoon and again seemed cheerful.
Detective Superintendent Neil Kelly, who is leading the inquiry, said: "The last time at which we know she was alive was at 3.30pm that afternoon when she made a telephone call to her bank."
It was not long before officers came to the "presumption of death" and the missing person's inquiry became a murder hunt. Mr Kelly said: "The investigation was categorised as a murder inquiry fairly early on because of the failure of all our inquiries to establish that Kate Prout was still alive.
"There was no motive for her to disappear of her own volition. The only reasonable conclusion is that she is no longer alive."
For weeks a team of 50 officers searched the area around the farm for any sign of a body. A digger was used to excavate tonnes of wood chippings from a forestry site and divers probed the muddy depths of the ponds.
Sophisticated surveying equipment was brought in to look for recently disturbed ground. But not even Eddie, the specialist sniffer dog who took part in the search for Madeleine McCann, could find any trace of her. (***Blogger note: Eddie found cadaver scent in Prout home. In November 2011, Adrian Prout confessed to murdering Kate.)
From the outset, Mr Prout was the prime suspect. He was arrested on suspicion of murder but released because all the searches had drawn a blank. In February he was arrested again after "further information" came to light, including that Mr Prout had a 48-year-old girlfriend who was also arrested and questioned. She was later released without charge.
According to a police source he denied any knowledge of her where- abouts but showed little interest or concern about her possible fate, or that he was being questioned on suspicion of her murder. The source said: "If he killed her he had five days to cover his tracks. You can do a lot in five days."
Mr Prout, who was released on bail until September 9, is unwilling to discuss his status as a suspected murderer. He declined to open the gates at the entrance to the farm and said over the intercom: "No thank you, I have got nothing to say. No comment."
Redmarley D'Abitot's 650 residents are upset and divided by Mrs Prout's disappearance and the possibility that they could have a murderer living in their midst.
One elderly woman said: "There's still a lot of deference to landowners and many people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt or believe it's 50-50 that she just left him. But the others just think that's a joke, and of course he did her in for her money and could well get away with it."
Mr Kelly said: "We are reviewing the investigation but we can't resume searching at Redhill Farm unless some new evidence comes to light. We still have 30 officers working on the case. We have no intention of giving up."
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The Times
Simon De Bruxelles
10 May 2008
It is Kate Prout's favourite time of year in the village of Redmarley D'Abitot, with wild flowers in the hedgerows and blossom trees in the well kept Gloucestershire gardens.
Yet Mrs Prout is not there to enjoy it. Today is exactly six months since her husband, Adrian, contacted police to say that he had not seen his wife for five days and she appeared to have gone missing.
It is unusual, but not unprece- dented, for middle-aged woman to leave their husbands without telling them where they are going. But Mrs Prout took nothing with her, not her purse and credit cards, nor her mobile telephone, her passport or any clothes, nor did she leave a note. She did not say goodbye to any members of her large and close-knit family.
What makes the disappearance of the retired teacher even more unusual is that the police do not believe she went anywhere. They are convinced that she has been murdered and that they know who did it: they just have not found the evidence - or her body - to prove it.
At 45, Adrian Prout is ten years his wife's junior. The couple married eight years ago when Kate was approaching the age at which her family wondered whether she would ever find the right man.
Both Kate and her new husband, who had been married before, came from farming backgrounds but had made their careers elsewhere. She had spent 20 years teaching in primary schools around Gloucestershire before taking early retirement in her forties.He had a successful business digging trenches and laying pipes.
Four years ago the couple bought Redhill Farm in Redmarley D'Abitot, a village between the Malvern Hills and the Cotswolds.Mrs Prout devoted herself to country life, arranging flowers in the church, walking their four dogs and transforming the garden.
Her husband set up two pheasant shoots and jealously guarded his privacy. One villager met him for the first time as she walked her dog. She said: "He was shouting at me to get off his land. He was really angry. I have been shouted at before but usually they calm down, you get chatting and you sort it out. That didn't happen."
The villager was so disturbed she talked to the farmer's wife. She said: "She was very nervous, cowed even. I could see that she wasn't happy."
Other residents have told police that shortly before Mrs Prout's disappearance, the couple argued in the local pub, the Rose and Crown, and were planning to divorce. They had recently had the farm valued at Pounds 1.2 million and Mrs Prout was expecting to take half of it.
On November 2 Mrs Prout drove to the village of Far Oakridge to visit her brother Richard Wakefield and his wife, Linda. She appeared happy and gave no indication that there was anything wrong. On November 5, Bonfire Night, she spoke to Linda in the afternoon and again seemed cheerful.
Detective Superintendent Neil Kelly, who is leading the inquiry, said: "The last time at which we know she was alive was at 3.30pm that afternoon when she made a telephone call to her bank."
It was not long before officers came to the "presumption of death" and the missing person's inquiry became a murder hunt. Mr Kelly said: "The investigation was categorised as a murder inquiry fairly early on because of the failure of all our inquiries to establish that Kate Prout was still alive.
"There was no motive for her to disappear of her own volition. The only reasonable conclusion is that she is no longer alive."
For weeks a team of 50 officers searched the area around the farm for any sign of a body. A digger was used to excavate tonnes of wood chippings from a forestry site and divers probed the muddy depths of the ponds.
Sophisticated surveying equipment was brought in to look for recently disturbed ground. But not even Eddie, the specialist sniffer dog who took part in the search for Madeleine McCann, could find any trace of her. (***Blogger note: Eddie found cadaver scent in Prout home. In November 2011, Adrian Prout confessed to murdering Kate.)
From the outset, Mr Prout was the prime suspect. He was arrested on suspicion of murder but released because all the searches had drawn a blank. In February he was arrested again after "further information" came to light, including that Mr Prout had a 48-year-old girlfriend who was also arrested and questioned. She was later released without charge.
According to a police source he denied any knowledge of her where- abouts but showed little interest or concern about her possible fate, or that he was being questioned on suspicion of her murder. The source said: "If he killed her he had five days to cover his tracks. You can do a lot in five days."
Mr Prout, who was released on bail until September 9, is unwilling to discuss his status as a suspected murderer. He declined to open the gates at the entrance to the farm and said over the intercom: "No thank you, I have got nothing to say. No comment."
Redmarley D'Abitot's 650 residents are upset and divided by Mrs Prout's disappearance and the possibility that they could have a murderer living in their midst.
One elderly woman said: "There's still a lot of deference to landowners and many people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt or believe it's 50-50 that she just left him. But the others just think that's a joke, and of course he did her in for her money and could well get away with it."
Mr Kelly said: "We are reviewing the investigation but we can't resume searching at Redhill Farm unless some new evidence comes to light. We still have 30 officers working on the case. We have no intention of giving up."
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Man says he would have admitted killing wife _ after his death
11 March 2008
Associated Press Newswires
MADISON, Wis.
(See: McCanns consult American lawyers over 'cadaver dog' evidence)
A former state employee convicted of killing his wife in 1976 and hiding her body for three decades told investigators he had planned to confess after his death.
Eugene Zapata, 69, told Madison police last month that he would have left a letter for his three children to be opened only after his death. But he would not have confessed to killing their mother while he was alive.
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Associated Press Newswires
MADISON, Wis.
(See: McCanns consult American lawyers over 'cadaver dog' evidence)
A former state employee convicted of killing his wife in 1976 and hiding her body for three decades told investigators he had planned to confess after his death.
Eugene Zapata, 69, told Madison police last month that he would have left a letter for his three children to be opened only after his death. But he would not have confessed to killing their mother while he was alive.
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