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 1:26 pm
301
âde Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
289 chenier
“…journos could be inquiring instead why a Judge in the High Court thought she could drive a horse and cart through the legislation enacted by Parliament, in secret, demanding disclosure of over 11,000 items of information in an ongoing criminal investigation…”
precisely
does the pope wear a funny hat?
does the hog have its nose in the trough?
or should that be hogge (old english spelling)
such fun
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The good news is that she was forced to retract in open Court, under the eye of Counsel for the Big Boys; an unprecedented event as far as I am aware.
Oh, and the McCanns were forced to withdraw their application for more than 11,000 items of information in the LCs files.
Also good news for anyone who wants the continuing criminal investigation to succeed.
In more general terms it will give impetus for some much-needed reforms of the way Wardship proceedings operate, since clearly this sort of thing is contrary to the public interest.
It’s a pity that a Judge in the High Court didn’t have the nous to recognise that in the first place; all the more reason for concern.
But the police, and SOCA, and the AG did…
July 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
312…annie1
Must be those Legal Eagles who are wolfing up all that cash.
Because it as sure a heck that it isn’t what they are spending on any search.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
maravilha
People in the uk know who they are but sadly they still have some suckers who follow them, as iv said before, so did Hitler!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
315
Matt. Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
309…lone pigeon
Viral Video ???
Is that safe ?
But thank you muchos for the congratulations….however undeserved they were.
Can’t you see them on the righthandside?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Whatever happens,
people in the UK know already who the McCanns are.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
309…lone pigeon
Viral Video ???
Is that safe ?
But thank you muchos for the congratulations….however undeserved they were.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
WHAT DO THE McCANNS WANT????? A CUSHY BANK BALANCE FOR LIFE ???
you guessed it!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
gilly
Your tennis ball theory still makes me giggle
July 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The Madeleine McCann fighting fund is down to £500,000, the family’s spokesman said today.
At one time, the fund, partly launched to pay for the investigation into the disappearance, stood at £1.1 million.
Family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said that over the past year Madeleine’s parents Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, had spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on private investigators searching for their missing daughter.
He spoke as Leicestershire police agreed to pass on to the family 81 pieces of information collected by them in the first days after the disappearance.
Mr Mitchell said: “The fund is approximately half spent, at about £500,000. Most of it is going on investigators.
“Money is still coming in, and every time Kate and Gerry do interviews a bit more comes in.”
The fund - which is not a registered charity - was set up to pay for private detectives to investigate Madeleine’s disappearance, to fund a website and to provide support, including financial assistance, for her family.
It was bolstered in March by a £550,000 libel settlement from the national Express group of newspapers, boosting the fund to £1.1million. Small amounts are still trickling in from the public. Last year, the Leicester Mercury’s Bands of Hope wristband campaign, supported by thousands of readers, contributed a further £57,000.
Mr and Mrs McCann also have the support of several benefactors, including Richard Branson and Cheshire businessman Brian Kennedy, who have helped by funding libel actions and paying Mr Mitchell’s salary. Mr Mitchell said: “The backers have not got open chequebooks, but they are supportive of the family. It is right that the legal bills should come from the backers.”
WHAT A BLOODY NERVE - SO IT IS RIGHT THT THE LEGAL BILLS SHOULD COM FROM THE BACKERS , IS IT? IF THEY ARE SO SURE OF THEIR INNOCENCE THEN THEY WOULDNT NEED HUGE LEGAL BEAVERS - THEY WOULD PUT THEIR FAITH IN JUSTICE. AND ANYWAY, SQUEALING ABOUT HALF OF THE MONEY HAVE GONE ON SEARCHING FOR MADELEINE -WELL - WORDS FAIL ME - I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT BY NOW ALL OF THE MONEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SPENT IS A HUGE CAMPAIGN TO ACTUALLY USE IT FOR WHAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR - WHAT DO THE McCANNS WANT????? A CUSHY BANK BALANCE FOR LIFE ???
July 9th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
lone
That is me I sang that song the other day
July 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
hi sweetie!
how’re you doing!
just a lurk - have to go soon - lunchtime and the big bad boss is about.
don’t want to end yup whoosh clunked I like this job miles better thabn the old one.
What was happening on August 14th ?
Miss you all dreadfully.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
hey I just noticed - Matt made it to the number one spot on the viral video chart!!!
well done Matt!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Brandon
HIYA GILLY bye Gilly
July 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
gilly !!!! xx
July 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
dont merge their names
July 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Just lurked in before lurking out again….
the WoC dates were very interesting, as you say I thought she was made a woc much, much earlier - or at least that’s the way I read it in the papers.
These dolls. Where can I buy them? Anorak?
Oh and you know these people who’ve been wandering round London with no faces a la latex covered, with pinpricks for eyes??????
Is this JT’s Eggman?
Are we being inundated with them so she can say ….
see I gave you a really exxcellent photofit of the faceless eggman… and there’s loads in London.
Maybe its another McCann Scam.
We should be told!
love you all - maybe back later
July 9th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Bye Steve T - off to get the usual lunch of deep fried mars bars are you?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Chenier
that’s twice in one morning where you’ve linked yourself with brunty!
If you don’t confess AT ONCE , I’ll make something up
July 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
stevet
Cant you go back to sweden ??
July 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
289 chenier
“…journos could be inquiring instead why a Judge in the High Court thought she could drive a horse and cart through the legislation enacted by Parliament, in secret, demanding disclosure of over 11,000 items of information in an ongoing criminal investigation…”
precisely
does the pope wear a funny hat?
does the hog have its nose in the trough?
or should that be hogge (old english spelling)
such fun
July 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Bye all.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
294
brandon flours
Rather strangely in a kilt!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
296
chenier Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
277
Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Chenier
mmmm - methinks my lady doth protest too much
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Then I shall desist; the amusing thing is that Brunty and me appear to have almost identical views on the case…
did you make notes before you left chernier?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
295
annie1
Thats basically the tactic I use, but with a few other names included.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
277
Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Chenier
mmmm - methinks my lady doth protest too much
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Then I shall desist; the amusing thing is that Brunty and me appear to have almost identical views on the case…
July 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Steve T - if you just want straightforward information - no messing just go straight to Chenier’s posts - that’s what I do, - then I look for a bit of amusing banter - Oh the joys of retirement!! lol
July 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Stevet
hows it hanging anyway ??
July 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Brandon,
Its hard work scanning through 300 posts in your lunch break! Got knows how many I will have to go through when the arrests happen!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Matt, ha ha. You couldn’t make it up!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
288…Melanie
That puts a wholly different complexion on the matter then.