Madeleine McCann: Child Alert, Fear And Tony Bennett’s McCann Club
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: Kate and Gerry’s fury at ‘club’ devoted to prosecuting them”
Gerry and Kate McCann have expressed their anger at the establishment of a fee-paying “club” dedicated to seeing them prosecuted over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.
A retired British solicitor, Tony Bennett, has set up a fund called The Madeleine Foundation, which aims to bring a private prosecution against the McCanns for alleged child neglect.
Tony Bennett has been on Anorak.
But Madeleine’s parents fear members of the public will inadvertently donate money to it because they may mistake it for the McCanns’ own Madeleine Fund, which pays for private investigations into her whereabouts.
Mr Bennett says his fund is a “subscription-only members’ club, charging a £10 annual fee”.
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It is a great shame that Mr Bennett feels the need to make money out of Madeleine McCann. He did not seek permission from Gerry or Kate to use Madeleine’s name.”
It’s a brand?
“This so-called foundation is in no way doing anything to help find Madeleine.”
Says Bennett:
“Some of the money immediately raised will be used to pay for a barrister to give his or her opinion on how best to proceed with a legal action against the McCanns. We are a group of people, which is rapidly growing in number, who want to get to the truth of what happened to Madeleine. We will also campaign for changes to the law about parents who leave children on their own.
DAILY MAIL: “Brussels throws out McCann’s appeal for European missing child alert system”
Kate and Gerry McCann’s campaign for an alert system for missing children across Europe will not be adopted by the EU, ministers said yesterday.
FENLAND TODAY: “McCanns win more backing for child abduction alert”
More MEPs have backed a campaign spearheaded by the Rothley parents of Madeleine McCann for a Europe-wide child abduction alert, the couple’s spokesman said.
WALES ONLINE: “Common sense not cotton wool for children, says safety tsar”
PARENTS should not respond to fears of child abduction and knife crime by wrapping their children in “cotton wool”, a leading charity’s new child safety tsar warned.
Karen McFarlane has been appointed by Children in Wales to promote a reduction in avoidable deaths and injuries.
She said: “What we’d like to try to do is empower both the children and the parent as they make informed choices. We don’t want to wrap them in cotton wool”…
Lynne Hill, the charity’s policy director, said children’s fears could be fuelled by the portrayal of dangers in media coverage.
She said: “Children are very, very aware of what’s reported on the news. The decision of some children to carry knives was often in response to a fear of attack,” she said.
“What’s striking is very often children think it’s a way of protecting themselves.”
Fears of child abduction had escalated following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Ms Hill said: “I know when Madeleine McCann was kidnapped there were a lot of reports of children being very fearful that someone would snatch them or a friend of theirs”
Increasing the fear. It could be you…
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Its good to see Ade back I wish
Batman, Rockhopper, and Will would return !
July 9th, 2008 at 10:25 am
bye ade
July 9th, 2008 at 10:25 am
see yas later
have lots of ripping sport and fun
July 9th, 2008 at 10:25 am
97 brandon flours
A nice way to start the day
July 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Melanie! I came on a coupla weeks ago very drunk after a party and was thoroughly horrified at some of the things I wrote - and of course we can’t retract it when we’ve done it! I was vile.
The mods were very kind and appear to have seen that I was only having fun.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Ade/mel yes thats him !
July 9th, 2008 at 10:23 am
WTF
I was indicating right, he let me go but there was motorbike coming up the side, so I gesticulated this to him, he smiled and when the bike had gone, he let me go again and I thanked him, then I went the short way, and a few minutes later, We met again and I let him go and he winked and laughed, and so did I …..
)
( I werent that keen on him to tell the truth, but he seems a lovely bloke, with good manners, his mother would be proud!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I thought following Mark Lamar would be tough, and it is. But I am warming to dear old Simon…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:21 am
JUST_ME …..lol! I hadn’t noticed the button because I was so entanced by his hairy chest and socks.
I am just ordering a blow-up version of CM right now and I am going to put him in bed with me and Hubbie tonight. Mmmmmmmm!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 9:39 am
‘According to the Judge Madeleine became a Ward of Court on 02/04/2008.
Didn’t Clarrie say that she was made one a few weeks after her dissapearance?
Looks like almost a year to me… why was it significant at that point then?
What caused that particular action at that particular time? ‘
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Come on, Nosey! What also happened on 2cd April, 2008?
‘application was made on 2 April 2008 by the parents seeking disclosure of information and
documents from the Chief Constable of Leicestershire to assist them and their own investigations in their search for Madeleine. ‘
I think it fair to say that even the Pope would concede that we would not be pursuing impure thoughts in noting that the McCanns had Madeleine made a Ward of Court for the purpose of using the Court to force disclosure of the contents of the Police investigation, more than 11,ooo items.’
Clarrie’s definition of a few weeks is rather like Gerrie’s definition of a few yards…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:20 am
it’s simon amstell
http://www.simonamstell.co.uk/
presents never mind the buzzcocks…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Coco, I am with you on the drinking! I even type better after a drink or two!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Chenier
They just dont get it do they??!!
You are so patient with them! You should have been a teacher
July 9th, 2008 at 10:17 am
69 just_me
excellent fun
July 9th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Doesn’t Simon Anstal do Never Mind the Buzzcocks?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hi Melanie! White with big red flowers coz got to impress some arse-holes who pay me good money to get away from Anorak - otherwise it would become my main hobby! Next to drinking! lol
July 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
brandon
Was it a good tete a tete?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
bbl
July 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Ohh him
did you run him off the road? PLEASE
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Nosey
The curly haired geeky presenter of nevermind the buzzcocks!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Brandon / Just_me
G& G have preordered? What a photoshop enhancement????
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
coco - you’re very welcome lol
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
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Gandolf Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 9:23 am
At all times jurisdiction was assumed by the Court because, there being no evidence to the contrary, it
is presumed Madeleine is alive.
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Not exactly what the Portuguese think.
Now Chenny spin that to say the opposite of it what it means. The sainted one is rather direct in that statement, but no doubt you will conclude that she is some amatuer, who you have every right to second guess………..tish, tosh and posh with a large amount of pish, have a nice day.
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And good morning to you, Gandolf!
‘At all times jurisdiction was assumed by the Court because, there being no evidence to the contrary, it is presumed Madeleine is alive. She is a British Citizen, and like her parents habitually resident here.’
That sentence is perfectly accurate, with the obvious proviso that the Court hasn’t seen the evidence contained in the files of all the police forces conducting criminal investigation here and around the world.
There may, of course, be evidence to the contrary in those files…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Brandon
Who is simon Anstal?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
notice the button on the base of the clarrie doll stand….press it and make him spin !!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:13 am
just_me! LOL! You are utterly fabulous! I was going to ask you yesterday to do one of these for me but I thought you might think I was cheeky.
I have just saved it - THANX! You are making my visions into real live material objects that I
July 9th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Brandon
Who’s Simon Anstal?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:13 am
just me
From acorns do mighty oaks grow. Yuk!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:13 am
just_me
Garth and Gandolph have pre ordered to avoid disappointment I take it
July 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am
wtf - yeah lol and thats with a photoshop enlargement too