Madeleine McCann: Child Alert, Fear And Tony Bennett’s McCann Club
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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 11:04 am
Morning Garth or is it Clive today - it’s difficult to tell these days xx
July 9th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Morning garth
On good form again today I see…
mmmmmwwwwwhhhhhhhh - BIG KISS to make you feel better (or sicker - whatever)
July 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Garth
Why ?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Chezzy darlin’, you must have a severe headache!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Excellent post Maria
Jass, you’re a knobber!
Mornin’
July 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am
lone
July 9th, 2008 at 10:52 am
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Clive Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 10:36 am
With apologies to serious contributors, this is a message for Lone Pigeon.
You asked - I answered - now get a life. Can you get it into your pigeon brain that this is about the McCanns and not you.
You just can’t help it can you clivey wivey …keep going son you’re doing well…
Morning all
July 9th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Chenier
A year of Met 3 before they realise that they desperately need ‘that’ information to find madeleine.
mmm me thinks they ‘need’ it for other reasons.
Do you know whether the potugese libel laws are based on the Libeler providing proof or the Libeled (? sorry about spelling
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Melanie!! ….. Of course I don’t stand at bus-stops! I can’t remember the last time I caught a bus. And …… If men didn’t wear Lynx and all these rotten body sprays I would catch the train more often to reduce my carbon footprint - my arse!!!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:47 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Chenier
Perhaps I have my suspiscious hat on today - but that is toooo easy imo.
They won the apology from the Express (et al) on March 19th - so it wouldn’t have helped them with that.
Weren’t they making noises about suing the portuguese press at around this time? Are libel laws in Portugal akin to those in the UK or those in the US?
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It is rather more suspicious, in my view, that once again Clarrie has made profoundly misleading statements about questions of fact. No reasonable person would describe the 2cd April 2008, as ‘a few weeks after’ 3rd May 2007.
Usually, if someone does two things on the same day, in this case making Madeleine a Ward of Court, and demanding information from the Leicestershire police, then those two actions are linked.
And when the demand was refused the McCanns went back to the Family Court and asked that the Family Court enforce that demand.
At which point the shit hit the McCann fan; enter the all-singing, all-dancing, extremely expensive line up of briefs for LC, SOCA and the AG, and exit the McCanns on holiday
It does appear that they are desperate to know what the files contain, does it not?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:45 am
DuncanR!!!! Alas ….. You mean I am not read as a serious journalist? Oh my God! Mein Gott! I wanted a fucking a job on here as well.
I might as well start conspiracy theories off now and chat bollocks like Gandolf if you are not taking me seriously.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:44 am
You insult people at bus-stops! Is there no escape from your tongue? I hope you don’t get the 242 in the evenings I shall be worried…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Melanie! lol Had to have my nails done yesterday and they are a tad too long so they slip over the keys.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Clive …. When we are abandoned by the Press and we have no news - we chat and insult each other. The same thing that people do at bus-stops or in bars.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:40 am
“abandoned by the…”
July 9th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Clive …… Lonepigeon and I are not very well people. We have severe mental problems and need to be able to loiter somewhere on account of not having real lives beyond Anorak - nor needing one.
It’s only when we are abandoned by the
July 9th, 2008 at 10:38 am
clive
Whatever did lone do to you?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Clive
Lone pigeon is away from his desk at the moment may I help you?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Coco, I miss the evening and weekend entertainment on here. I impose a strict (well not that strict sometimes) no internet policy on myself for evenngs and weekends. I do all my internet browsing at my employers expense!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:37 am
111 - coco
I get up early ’specially to see what you have to say!
Always make me laugh
July 9th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Noseycow! lol No way - he’s much too sophisticated.
I have to go out to earn a crust now but will be back later - when you are all in bed - I rant away on my own in the midnight hours - it’s not fair!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:36 am
With apologies to serious contributors, this is a message for Lone Pigeon.
You asked - I answered - now get a life. Can you get it into your pigeon brain that this is about the McCanns and not you.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:34 am
DuncanR …… You all truly are! At least you reply to me when I am ranting all alone at 3 and 4 in the morning!
Carmen is lovely too!
Cocophant -agw
July 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Coco
Are you suggesting tha Pikey is Mark Lamar
we should be trolled…
July 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am
99 - coco
The mods were very kind
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You couldn’t meet a nicer bunch of people - Honest !
July 9th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Melanie! lol Were you on here a week last Saturday when a weirdo called Pikey was on?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Bye Ade
When you gonna upload one of your performances onto youtube for us???
July 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Chenier
Perhaps I have my suspiscious hat on today - but that is toooo easy imo.
They won the apology from the Express (et al) on March 19th - so it wouldn’t have helped them with that.
Weren’t they making noises about suing the portuguese press at around this time? Are libel laws in Portugal akin to those in the UK or those in the US?
July 9th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Coco, I stay far away when I am drunk!
July 9th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Bye Ade! Take it maccanneasy!