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 5:56 pm
melanie
Its a forgotten gem!
great london footage from the era!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
404 chenier
i tend to agree
their best strategy - as posted many times - seems to be to simply shut up
they seem to be incapable of doing this…
the more they say the bigger the hole becomes and the trail of lies becomes even more unmanageable
i love it
July 9th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Brandon, what a cast!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
405, Maravilha
There will be al lot of just embarrassing things in the files, too.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
402
yampster Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Does anyone know what happened to the money in the Lubbock trust? I tried looking on TB’s web site but it has disappeared
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Well, I certainly don’t.
Improbable as it may seem, I believe some ‘probing questions’ are being raised in Another Place not usually noted for asking ‘probing questions’ as to what TB thinks he’s playing at.
Still, Clarrie must be happy to have found such helpful assistance within a few hours of being flattened by the Big Boys…
July 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
If the 81 pieces have no value, the McCanns must know that.
They are just making noise and smoke around.
They must be scared to death for what the files of the investigation are saying.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
400
âde Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
397 Cheryl
how many of the 8 did you post?
let’s face it the odiates are all washed up
people are sick of them and their whiney voices
great sport
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Ade, I think their apparent willingness to say whatever suits them at the moment is not doing them any favours; flip-flopping never plays well, and the Amber Alert debacle simply reinforces the growing unwillingness of anybody with an ounce of sense to be tarred with the McCann brush.
That and Gerrie’s uncanny ability to offend people without even trying…
July 9th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Somewhere I read that one of the indications the PJ have is the fact
that, after the McCanns started screaming Maddie was abducted,
the whole Tapas 7 started searching for the child till deep in the
night and none of them went back to his own apartment to check if
their own children were abducted as well.
Odd!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Does anyone know what happened to the money in the Lubbock trust? I tried looking on TB’s web site but it has disappeared
July 9th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
off out again
have lots of fun for me
July 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
397 Cheryl
how many of the 8 did you post?
let’s face it the odiates are all washed up
people are sick of them and their whiney voices
great sport
July 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
398
Maravilha
It wont happen….gone for an ice cream
Be back later
July 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
To somebody who understands law
Can Goncalo Amaral be called by a Public Prosecuter and be interrogated as a witness?
I think this is possible.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
251
âde Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
have a look at the blog under the sun story about tony b’s “club”
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/article1399388.ece
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Correction, Ade, it is now 8 for and 8 against!
July 9th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Showing:
BBC TWO, Wednesday August 15, 12.10pm
Synopsis:
(1962) Four youths are on trial for the murder of a garage night watchman, but conflicting evidence and a maverick defence lawyer soon throw the apparently clear-cut case into disarray. Innovative kitchen-sink drama charting the rise of teenage gang culture.
Director:
Sidney J. Furie
Producer:
Sidney J. Furie and Kenneth Rive
Cast:
* Richard Todd (Victor Webster)
* Robert Morley (Montgomery)
* Felix Aylner (Judge)
* Dudley Sutton (Stan Coulter)
* Ronald Lacey (Billy Herne)
* Tony Garnett(Ginger Thompson)
* Roy Kinnear (Mark Salmon)
* Patrick Magee (Mr. Lee)
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I saw this last year and it was brilliant and shows nothing much changes except peoples perception.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
yes I did
July 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
For a faster and better cooperation….tachaaannn
http://www.esplendordelaforma.blogspot.com/
July 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
“Mitchell says that the McCann are indifferent either it indistinct a centralized system or an individual national alert, because, according to the spokesman everything that Kate and Gerry wish is that cooperation is better and faster among countries.”
…..Our childcare specialists are burping…..
Lets see the rest
“If this was the case,it is doubly inexplicable that the spokesperson and their clients fail to cooperate in good shape and quickly with Portugal”
…..no comment…
“….. neither does it explain why has nobody on the British side the courtesy to comunicate to their portuguese counter part,that an uncontrolable anxiety lead them (the mccanns) to bring them (LP) in a court agreeing to breach the Secrecy of Justice”
………..ah….they will never stop to amaze me
July 9th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
awwww did you miss me did ya ????
xxx ♥
July 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
ha ha ha ha lol
na just wonderin
July 9th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
getting soaked buying fish ! what are you a bloody policeman or summat
July 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
where u been??
July 9th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Bye matt
July 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
bye matt - cheers for the drinks and good to see you back!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Time for town.
Good sleuthing !!!!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
yeah they take the piss with everything don’t they!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Lone, to the government the police are personal bodyguards.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Police officers used to be important to their communities.
they still are - it’s such a bloody shame that they are not important to the governments!
July 9th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
And even more fascinating is the book about the case by that wonderful investigative journalist David Yallop, which comes to the conclusion, based on the remaining forensic and ballistic evidence, and a great deal of working things out from first principles, (as happens on some fora nowadays) that it was probably another police officer who fired the fatal shot. Craig’s gun had a much larger calibre than the ammunition he had, and it is unlikely that the bullet woud have done more than drop limply out of the end of the barrel.
So a double miscarriage. Except the mood of the day was that if a police officer was killed, someone had to pay for it. Police officers used to be important to their communities.
July 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Matt, yup, it would have made for a good chat.