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 11:20 am
163…lone pigeon
zoom…Zoom….ZOOM !!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am
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Matt. Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:13 am
146…Melanie
The Headless Woman is always at the customer’s service…24/7.
G&T on it’s way.
matt, make that two, morning everyone
July 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Chez
A little advice before you do your shop………… write it down!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Brandon, we dont want too many people meeting Dara!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am
well I hope you’re fully relaxed and tanned and raring for action!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I am disappointed ! I thought chenier would be an M& S bird!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am
157…brandon flours
Must be good…JM’s blog…that is.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:17 am
156
chenier Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Garth Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Like i’ve said before Chez, you have an answer for everything………. and sometimes i mutter ……. thank gawd for that!
Feck me - you’ve changed
July 9th, 2008 at 11:15 am
150…lone pigeon
I took a page out of the good Dr’s book….we have been affected by the MM case
too….and as they suggest is necessary….I had a little Hol too…
Have read enough to see that Justice Hogg made a bit of an ass of herself.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Matt read jo morais blog from about friday onwards
That should wet your whistle!
I would love to analyse the results wiv yer !!!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Garth Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Like i’ve said before Chez, you have an answer for everything………. and sometimes i mutter ……. thank gawd for that!
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Cheers Garth!
But you have your revenge; it’s overcast, and looks chilly, and I have to plod to Waitrose due to the inexplicable absence of food in the fridge.
I do hope that Coco’s giant sardines are not responsible…
July 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I love Clarrie,
“Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It is a great shame that Mr Bennett feels the need to make money out of Madeleine McCann.”
Yes, Clarrie, it is an even greater shame that the McCs felt the need to make money out of Madeleine. And so soon. They are the ones who launched the fund and then spent some of it on mortgage payments. They are the ones who are STILL marketing wristbands and T shirts. They are the ones who trademarked a genetic defect in their daughter’s eye. They are the ones who are appearing in Hello magazine and on TV chat shows for money. They, and you, are the ones who say that cash can be sent directly to them, or to the fund,. but who then refuse or fail to detail how the money so generously and ingenuously donated by the gullible public is actually spent.
“This so-called foundation is in no way doing anything to help find Madeleine.”
And who is, precisely ?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Cheers Matt, very satisfying..
July 9th, 2008 at 11:13 am
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brandon flours Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Garth
Why is TB in your words an ***** hole ?
Are you furious in defeat today?
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BF
Defeat? What are you going on about? Are you drinking already?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:13 am
146…Melanie
The Headless Woman is always at the customer’s service…24/7.
G&T on it’s way.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Like i’ve said before Chez, you have an answer for everything………. and sometimes i mutter ……. thank gawd for that!
;)
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
you’ve been missing lots Matt - hope you’ve been reading!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
141…brandon flours
Order expedited.
Bit of a rush on this morn.
Thirsty peoples.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
a chimp off the old bock maybe…
July 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Garth
Why is TB in your words an ***** hole ?
Are you furious in defeat today?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I’ll have a G&T if the bar is open!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am
lone
Maybe Clive is Garths urangutang ?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am
140…lone pigeon
On it’s way !!
Apart from that….Wazzup ?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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Garth Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Chezzy darlin’, you must have a severe headache!
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Garth, darling, not all women have a permanent severe headache.
Though this may reflect your personal experience, of course…
July 9th, 2008 at 11:08 am
lone I was ere first
July 9th, 2008 at 11:08 am
MATTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Large southern comfort please and one for yourself !!!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:07 am
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Matt. Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Wazzup ??
pint please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Wazzup ??
July 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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lone pigeon Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Morning Garth or is it Clive today - it’s difficult to tell these days xx
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I know what you mean rooster.
Nosey,
Your kiss is welcomed. Provided your not over 40.
Bf
Why? Why what?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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Noseycow Says:
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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Haven’t the foggiest on Portuguese libel law.
It seems highly probable that people were thinking about libel; it was only a fortnight later that Murat filed his writs against all and sundry, and pretty sundry they were, too.
I speculated that the tabloid supporters of Team McCann might be hoping to get at the evidence in the hope of providing themselves with some hint of a defence against his writs, but that is pure speculation…