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 6:47 pm
Right!……….. time to shaft the cat!
July 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
A very good point Portia i must admit. It does make you question your own sanity.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Enjoy the simpsons and dont forget………. spongebob squarepants is on immediately after.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Ade- I agree, in taking on legal responsibility for Madeleine, the court is going to have a lot to answer for.
Even if this is, and for the dimwits out there this is a stated hypothesis, just a case of a wayward parent on drugs killing a child in a fit of rage, there is the possibility that the supplier(s) of those drugs is extremely anxious to stay out of prison and such a person might resort to blackmail.
In such a case, how could the court be said to be acting in Madeleine’s or her family’s best interest by failing to order full cooperation of all witnesses?
Nothing about this case makes any sense.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I think the only thing to worry about mate is your state of mind.
A bit weird me thinks.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
off to watch the simpsons
have fun
July 9th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
424 chenier
“We agree and on that basis we don’t intend to comment further at this stage.”
i am surprised that leicester plod aren’t bending the rules for the wretches
i had assumed that freemasonry and other connections would have kicked in with leicester plod and things leaked/covered up to suit the suspects
leicester plod’s stance must be worrying for the unpleasant ones
81 phone calls to their solicitors is hardly a breakthrough after all
July 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Good evening, back today from a long weekend in Lagos, the Maddy story is slipping out of the public interest despite the papers trying to liven things up. Most people that I have been in contact with are sure the case will go no further, archived shelved delayed whatever you like to call it. Amaral’s interview reinforced peoples suspicion of Government interference, the judge in Englands comments were met with quiet resignation, if the British court is able to cast doubt on the thesis of the PJ, why should people in Portugal not be sceptical.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Have they all retreated up the pigeon hole?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
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Maravilha Says:
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.
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Interrogted or questioned? Now we’re getting somewhere!
July 9th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
What else have we got?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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Maravilha Says:
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!
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Odd? Whats odd about that? We’re used to pathetics posts like that.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
We feel its too high a risk and very dangerous to try and publicise your daughter for her safe return.
There are some very strange people out there…………
July 9th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Yuo can say taht aigan.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Garth, it is all the excitement (and drugs)
July 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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Melanie Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Brandon, goodnight to you. Hope a lovely evening
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You type too fast, miss words out and spell pathetically. A bit lick me really.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
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âde Says:
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
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Well, notwithstanding the best efforts of Clarrie and co they don’t seem to give a toss about finding out what happened to Madeleine.
The very dignified comment by the Leicestershire Police summed it up:
‘Today in court the public will have been made aware of the immense effort that the UK law enforcement agencies, led by Leicestershire Constabulary, have dedicated to the search for Madeleine.
‘Tim Scott QC, appearing for the McCanns, commented that these proceedings could be a diversion from the primary objective, which is the search to discover what happened to Madeleine when she disappeared.
We agree and on that basis we don’t intend to comment further at this stage.’
It was, of course, the McCanns who initiated the proceedings and the McCanns who were responsible for the diversion from the primary objective…
July 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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Portia Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
It has been a while since I posted anything on the Maddie case, but the news that Maddie was made a ward of the court has left me with a disturbing question.
Why didn’t the court act on Maddie’s behalf to end the parent’s dangerous, high-risk publicity campaign?
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Dangerous? High risk?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
415 Portia
“Why didn’t the court act on Maddie’s behalf to end the parent’s dangerous, high-risk publicity campaign?”
a good question and there are others too
for example why didn’t the court insist that the odaites co-operate with the pj by answering the pj’s questions and taking part in the reconstruction?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
you’re the ’special one’ ade
July 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
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âde Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
412 âde
now how did i get three links in one post past the spammer?
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Dunno, but i think its about time you had a break!
July 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
414 brandon flours
nite nite
July 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
412 âde
now how did i get three links in one post past the spammer?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Brandon, goodnight to you. Hope a lovely evening
July 9th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
night brandon
July 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
It has been a while since I posted anything on the Maddie case, but the news that Maddie was made a ward of the court has left me with a disturbing question.
Why didn’t the court act on Maddie’s behalf to end the parent’s dangerous, high-risk publicity campaign?
July 9th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
night everyone
xxx
July 9th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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Ferdinand Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:58 am
217 brandon flours Quotes:
” Mr Mitchell said the Amber alert campaign, which was already being considered before the McCanns offered their support, had gained 308 MEP signatures and needed just 85 more to gain a majority. ”
Not up to date. The current state, as of yesterday, is 351 signatures, thus 42 more needed.
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42 more WERE needed, Ferdinand. It’s too late now.
July 9th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Just spotted these adverts on the right of the page - great fun:
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i think someone should forward the links to he who is comical
love every minute of it
July 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
405 Maravilha
“They must be scared to death for what the files of the investigation are saying.”
indeed they must be…
i wonder what the loyal members of the pact are thinking about what is in the files