anotheroneforjustice | 07 05 09 BBC Volunteers search for Madeleine @anotheroneforjustice | Uploaded November 2010 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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REPORTER In the heat of the Portuguese countryside the search for Maddie goes on. These are fields three miles away from the seaside resort where the three year old was snatched. And helping to lead the search is bar worker Matt King from Leicester.
MATT KING The police will give us an area. The maps that they've got, they've coordinated into squares (???? 2 or three garbled words) each day. At the end of the day we then have to go back, mark off the area that we've done. Then the next day we'll go back to the area that we've been given and we'll go back out to that area with as many volunteers that have volunteered in the day.
REPORTER A dozen people have volunteered for this search party. Some are ex-pats. Some are tourists. One family has given up part of their holiday to look for Maddie. Its six days now since the disappearance of the little girl from Rothley in Leicestershire.
WOMAN SEARCHER 1 We were here on holiday and just so close to where its all happened and you just can't really come without doing something to help.
WOMAN SEARCHER 2 When we heard about Maddie. It was just, oh, it was just horrible so we just didn't feel like we could be here on holiday knowing that she was missing.
REPORTER Its tough going for these search parties in the fields near the resort. They're looking through long grasses, in orchards, irrigation ditches and outhouses for any sign of Maddie. Madeleine's story is front page news in the ex-pat newspapers out here. How will the Portuguese be reacting to all this?
SHEENA RAWCLIFFE (from The Resident newspaper) They are finding this very, very difficult and to be quite open and honest, they are hoping it is a British person or somebody who is not Portuguese that has taken Maddie away because they will be devastated if its a Portuguese person that has done this.
REPORTER Secrecy laws here in Portugal mean the police can't reveal too many details about their investigations but the police have now bowed to pressure from the British media. They say they've questioned a hundred people, they say they are following up 350 leads and they've searched 500 apartments as they hunt for missing Madeleine.
REPORTER This is just one of the ramshackle outbuildings that dot the hillsides. Dozens of them have been checked over the last few days. The number of people on the search parties has dwindled. But Matt King says he'll continue to help for as long as it takes.
TRANSCRIPT
REPORTER In the heat of the Portuguese countryside the search for Maddie goes on. These are fields three miles away from the seaside resort where the three year old was snatched. And helping to lead the search is bar worker Matt King from Leicester.
MATT KING The police will give us an area. The maps that they've got, they've coordinated into squares (???? 2 or three garbled words) each day. At the end of the day we then have to go back, mark off the area that we've done. Then the next day we'll go back to the area that we've been given and we'll go back out to that area with as many volunteers that have volunteered in the day.
REPORTER A dozen people have volunteered for this search party. Some are ex-pats. Some are tourists. One family has given up part of their holiday to look for Maddie. Its six days now since the disappearance of the little girl from Rothley in Leicestershire.
WOMAN SEARCHER 1 We were here on holiday and just so close to where its all happened and you just can't really come without doing something to help.
WOMAN SEARCHER 2 When we heard about Maddie. It was just, oh, it was just horrible so we just didn't feel like we could be here on holiday knowing that she was missing.
REPORTER Its tough going for these search parties in the fields near the resort. They're looking through long grasses, in orchards, irrigation ditches and outhouses for any sign of Maddie. Madeleine's story is front page news in the ex-pat newspapers out here. How will the Portuguese be reacting to all this?
SHEENA RAWCLIFFE (from The Resident newspaper) They are finding this very, very difficult and to be quite open and honest, they are hoping it is a British person or somebody who is not Portuguese that has taken Maddie away because they will be devastated if its a Portuguese person that has done this.
REPORTER Secrecy laws here in Portugal mean the police can't reveal too many details about their investigations but the police have now bowed to pressure from the British media. They say they've questioned a hundred people, they say they are following up 350 leads and they've searched 500 apartments as they hunt for missing Madeleine.
REPORTER This is just one of the ramshackle outbuildings that dot the hillsides. Dozens of them have been checked over the last few days. The number of people on the search parties has dwindled. But Matt King says he'll continue to help for as long as it takes.
