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 2:29 pm
still here
Just munching
July 9th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
talking of which wheres my lone gone?
July 9th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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brandon flours Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
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I’ve had a quick look, also.
I wouldn’t touch it with a 20 foot barge pole…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
thinking about hog(g)s and noses in troughs and bending the rules, what is it that binds all these unsavoury people together?
is it just money?
is it something deeper?
i know we ahave asked this question many times on anorak but the court fiaso has brought it all back to me
i suppose if we knew that then we’d be able to find out what really happened…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
344…jo
Dunno about suing….but they are certainly advertising it’s, (the M Foundation), existance.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Will bbl
July 9th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
What an ideal spin!!!!
Get people”s mind off the real issue
“But the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “Kate and Gerry would warn people not to give any money to this foundation. It is mis-using Madeleine’s name.”
They are not suing TB yet?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1399388.ece
July 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
320 chenier
“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.”
i agree and i reckon there will be more changes as a result of the fragrant ones’ charade, like:
raised awareness of child neglect/abuse
changed (hardened) attitude of portuguese folk to uk yobbo holidaymakers
reflections on the poor state of the uk gutter press
reduced trust in journos and politicians
poor job prospects for the comical one
etc.
and all because they left their own children alone…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
melanie
I dont know, I havent seen much of the posters previous to guess
July 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Jo
Yes you would think they would need to consult a court everytime now wouldnt you!
and they should ask the police to speak instead of them!
July 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Chenier
Then I will endevour to fill it….
July 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
218
brandon
“Money is still coming in, and every time Kate and Gerry do interviews a bit more comes in.”
Did they ask Madeleine via her guardian if they could do this? if they couls sell her “doing interviews”????
July 9th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
334
Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
SO - do you deny stating any of the above?
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What above?
I’ve just got a blank page…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
brandon (re 328), it has to be a put a up job yes?
July 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
333
brandon
July 9th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
69
just_me
Coco - http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj15/just_meme5/CLARRIEDOLL.jpg
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DuncanR
99 - coco
The mods were very kind
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You couldn’t meet a nicer bunch of people - Honest !
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July 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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chenier Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Brunty and I were out the door long before CM…
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chenier Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Then I shall desist; the amusing thing is that Brunty and me appear to have almost identical views on the case…
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Chenier
‘It wasn’t that I was linking myself with Brunty, it was that I was disassociating myself from Clarrie!
Honest!’
A likely story…
SO - do you deny stating any of the above?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
LENNY HARPER I LOVE YOU ♥
July 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I have read it Melanie. Some very valid points being put across.
There will always be sheep whichever side of the fence you’re on.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Although no bodies have been found, deputy chief officer Lenny Harper said: “We have a dead child or dead children in that cellar.
“We do not know how they got there or how they died, but we do know in that cellar we have a dead child.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0708/breaking73.htm
July 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
maravilha
that is good news
July 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
WTF,
I have met more then 30 people (tourism) from the UK and they all believe that the McCanns are involved in Madeleine’s disappearence.
They said that is the opinion in the UK.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
mel
yes
July 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
See Joana Morais
News from O Público of today.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
brandon, have you read the “open questions for TB” piece?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
303
Noseycow Says:
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
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In the true spirit of tabloid reporting!
It wasn’t that I was linking myself with Brunty, it was that I was disassociating myself from Clarrie!
Honest!
July 9th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
317…lone pigeon
Ah….I see.
Arrrrgggghhhh…..the racoon…..again.
And I demand to know who took that video.
Is nothing private in this world. IMO.
July 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Madeleine - Wikipedia, Madeleines are very small cakes with a distinctive shell-like shape acquired from being baked in pans with shell-shaped depressions
Well there you go then - how is Clarrie gonna deal with that one then? The very suggestion that Madeleine was baked in a pan with shell shaped depressions ??!!
I can hear him now - ” Kate and Gerry want to make it very clear that there is no way that Madeleine was baked, and certainly never pressed her so hard onto the beach as to cause shell shaped depressions - its just a ludicrous suggestion which has been purposely attached to our now sole right to the name Madeleine”
July 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
What is the “Tennis Ball” theory?
July 9th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Lone, I wouldn’t mind one of those either - though I am prepared to work for mine :-0