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 3:48 pm
Brandon, try “The Tough Guy”
July 9th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
377…Melanie
There would still have been the fors, the maybe/maybe nots, and the againsts.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
The Blue Lamp was made in 1949 and release in 1950. Perhaps Bentley got the idea from watching the film
July 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Matt, imagine if we’d been on anorak to discuss those words back then!
July 9th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
374…Melanie
Yes…those were the words which were argued about in Court.
Did they tell the gunman to “Shoot the Policeman”.
Or did they ask the gunman to “Hand over his gun to the Policeman”.
The former was taken, by the Court, and probably by the gunman, as being
the order.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I starred in a amateur film called that too
BBL
July 9th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
There was a film in 1991 called “Let Him Have It” about Derek Bentley starring Christopher Ecclestone.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
agw ♥
Thank you xxxxxxxxxx
♥
July 9th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I think Blue Lamp was the film that launched Dixonm of Dock Green, although in that film Dirk Bogarde kills Dixon.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
365 chenier
Clarrie is desperate…
i see what you mean…
what fun we have
July 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
369…Noseycow
Obsessed is not the word.
Try…nauseated.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
matt - still obsessed by aunty phil I see
July 9th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
366…brandon flours
No.
Philomena fills that vacancy.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Brandon Flowers asked
Can anyone remember the name of the black and white 60s british film about teddy boys who stabbed or shot someone in london ?
Administrator: The film you may be asking about was the Blue Lamp. It was loosely based on the case of 19 year old Derek Bently hanged for the fatal shooting of a policeman.
Bentley had been executed in 1953 at Wandsworth Prison in London for his part in the murder of Pc Sidney Miles.
Bentley was sentenced to death on 11 December, 1952 for killing Pc Miles during a bungled break-in at a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey.
His co-defendant, Christopher Craig, fired the fatal shot but because he was still a juvenile in the eyes of the law he escaped the death sentence and was ordered to be detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
It is now held to be one of the gravest miscarriages of justice ever in the history of the British criminal courts system. It was one of the most powerful arguments for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain. -agw
July 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
matt
could she be mrs big?
July 9th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
360
âde Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
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The 81 items were pieces of information from telephone calls made to the McCanns’ solicitors in the very early days of the enquiry. The solicitors simply passed them on to the Leicestershire police incident room without bothering to keep a record of them or what they said.
But since the calls were made to the solicitors, not the police, and the Mccanns had already had access to them, they were not protected under the legislation.
As Brunty pointed out the police had had them for over a year, and didn’t think that any of them was of any help, so it could hardly be described as ‘new leads’.
Clarrie is desperate…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
359…âde
She made a start. When she babbled the sycophantic gush re the Dr’s in her
Court Address.
Talk about an embarrassed waffling to take minds off her Legal errors.
Strewth.
July 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
359
âde Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
355 chenier
no happy bunnies indeed!
so will the judge get a slap on the wrist?
be delegated to boring cases?
have to do 100 press-ups on the lodge floor?
we should be told
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The Judge has already had a slap on the wrist.
It is unprecedented for a Judge in the Family Court to have a hearing involving a named minor in open Court; it is equally unprecedented for a Judge in the Family Court to have to admit, at that hearing in open Court, that her order was unlawful in its scope and contrary to the public interest. All under the basilisk stare of heavy duty Counsel who were less than impressed.
Making history is all very well, but not that sort of history.
Seeking to overturn considered legislation enacted by Parliament in a secret order that Parliament knows nothing about is also not the sort of activity which lends lustre to a Judge’s CV.
I doubt that the President of the Family Division has any sympathy…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Can anyone remember the name of the black and white 60s british film about teddy boys who stabbed or shot someone in london ?
July 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
357
Melanie Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Lone, I hope you arrive by your own clock though
you know that
July 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
358 Maravilha
“What is behind all this?”
a good question indeed
it seems that the leicester plod and the pj are in agreement here as the leicester plod resisted the call to hand over the documents
if we knew what was in the documents it might help us find out what the odious ones were fishing for
was it phone calls, emails, transcription of suspects’ interviews or what?
as martin brunt pointed out, the suspects didn’t get what they wanted (i.e. all the documents) so it was a hollow “victory”
great fun
i too would be annoyed if someone leaked my statement given in confidential circumstances
and it looks like the timing - as always - may give us a clue
July 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
355 chenier
no happy bunnies indeed!
so will the judge get a slap on the wrist?
be delegated to boring cases?
have to do 100 press-ups on the lodge floor?
we should be told
July 9th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
It is regretful the English judge allowed those documents to be gaven to the McCanns, without consulting and asking for permission of Portugal’s justice. They were not even officially informed.
What is behind all this?
July 9th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Lone, I hope you arrive by your own clock though
July 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I leave work according to the anorak clock
people hate it but who cares !
July 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
347
âde Says:
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…
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I think that you have to bear in mind that the fiasco happened to the Mccanns, their Counsel and the Judge who had issued the original order.
You don’t need to be protesting from Harriet Harman’s roof to believe that the Family Division is not entirely perfect.
The Attorney General will not have taken kindly to being dropped in the mire, just as SOCA and the police were not happy bunnies.
Which meant that the big guns weren’t being pointed by the McCanns, they were being pointed at the McCanns.
And since neither the Judge nor the Mccanns’ Counsel knows what is in the police files they have no knowledge of what actually happened; their comments are based on supposition.
And supposition does not get you very far once the big guns are wheeled out…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
looking at the anorak clock i have deduced it must be in the tardis…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
351 Matt
bending the rules par excellence
move down the trough vicar…
July 9th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
327 Maravilha
“See Joana Morais
News from O Público of today.”
just had a look
14 august should be fun
possibly, documents released
amaral’s book released about the same time
July 9th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
347…âde
Well….Grandad, although born in London, played soccer for Scotland.