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 10th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Tris
Its the river wot does it to them…
July 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am
611 Chatelaine…
Thanks, and I shall look out for that tomorrow!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Coco remember earlier you said dont post if you are drunk?
Well i have! jhs on 3As , I was only standing up for our tony !
July 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Nosey…
I do not think that you need lessons… you are the master and I am the student. Slough is of course pronounced “Sluff” and I live in Maidenhead, which is is not at all the same and is celebrated in song and story…
“You never shall have my Maidenhead that I have kept so long!”
“Has he robbed you of your mantle, has he robbed you of your ring? No, he’s robbed me of my Maidenhead, and another I cannot find!”
“None that go by Carterhaugh, but they leave him a pledge… either their mantles of green, or else their Maidenhead!”
I don’t quite understand, why young women would be so protective of a particular town in deep dark equatorial Berkshire… perhaps someone could ’splain to me…
July 10th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I am scared of missing something now that you are all here!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:35 am
coco
July 10th, 2008 at 12:34 am
BF! Yes! But pretend I am just 30!lol
July 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Nosey PMSL
My aunty used to say the same !!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:31 am
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Trismegistus Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 12:28 am
[...] Please say hi from me to maman… before she can ask I am an American expat in England, living near Windsor Castle where the Queen lives. (We are neighbors, but I have not yet borrowed a cup of sugar.)
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Thank you. I’ll tell her at breakfast. And tell you how she reacted …
July 10th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Tris
I used to say that I lived near Windsor Castle, well it always sounded better than Slough!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Tris
So you’ve adapted to our sense of humour! Well done! Do you give lessons?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:28 am
581 Chatelaine…
“nice rap”
Thanks. Please say hi from me to maman… before she can ask I am an American expat in England, living near Windsor Castle where the Queen lives. (We are neighbors, but I have not yet borrowed a cup of sugar.)
July 10th, 2008 at 12:27 am
jo morais
July 10th, 2008 at 12:27 am
595
brandon flours Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Chaterlaine
Murats apparent innocence/ paynes fingering
pyjamas/ rosebush /dogs
abduction proved wrong?
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Aha.
O.K.
That’s quite a story, all that.
I’ll write a reply in Word and paste it in here later.
Can you meanwhile tell me the source of your link, yesterday or the day before, viz. the one with the plan of the apartment and the location of blood resp. cadaverine detection by lord eddie and lady keela?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Chantelaine
Am with you on that one.
They did add at the time that they did not think it was murat because the ‘dad’ had met him a few times in a bar.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:25 am
coco
are you 35 to 38 ?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:25 am
600 Nosey…
Don’t get cheeky with me!!!!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:24 am
I rememeber that song and it was a woman dancing in a lush green jungle. Was there somebody called Zoe singing the song?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:24 am
nosey
When the summer of 74 hits your nose again you will smell da shit !!!
next year british heatwave !
July 10th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Tris
thats actually a well known fact why women can’t park
Don’t go into your hole - its too wet!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:23 am
591
Maravilha Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
570 Coco,
on Anatomy of a Mistery of Sandra Felgueiras (se our blessed McCannfiles) she talks about( I think) Smith, the man corresponding to Tanner’s description of the abductor.
The witness saw him at the same time carrying a child, walking fast, along the church, long trousers, beige, dark colbert, dark hair.
But the PJ doubted about his story.
He saw the “abductor” at the same moment Tanner saw him somewhere else and on the moment Gerry exchanged 14 sms.
It could not be Gerry.
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I thought the FAMILY Smith saw a man carrying a child towards the BEACH approx. an HOUR after JT “saw” the bundleman. I also understood that the man’s trousers and shoes could be described by them, but not his “top” as it was covered by the child he carried …
At least, that’s what I read in articles [which are, of course, not the gospel...]
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July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
589 Nosey…
Heh. Men.
Do you know why women are so rubbish at judging distances?
Because men are always trying to convince them that this {fingers held about 3 cm apart} is 9 inches…
Apologies in advance. Crawling back into my hole now…
July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Brandon
i live on hillside in a house with no foundations - so I just sit and laugh at the peps over the road who get flooded every time
July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Correction
Smith is the one who saw the abductor as well.
He is not the abductor
July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Chaterlaine
Murats apparent innocence/ paynes fingering
pyjamas/ rosebush /dogs
abduction proved wrong?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:21 am
veritablequandary …. Much appreciated. I have just had that chilly feeling again because I remembered the parents on TV that first day.
With regard to Mrs Anorak knowing about my intrusive thoughts - I don’t know! I try to hide it but I am not a well person at the best of times! lol
July 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Chântelaine
July 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I have got my fur coat wrapped around 3 sand bags left by roman , on my patio doors!
Does anyone remember the song ‘ lets go dancing naked in the rain’
late 80s/90s
July 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
570 Coco,
on Anatomy of a Mistery of Sandra Felgueiras (se our blessed McCannfiles) she talks about( I think) Smith, the man corresponding to Tanner’s description of the abductor.
The witness saw him at the same time carrying a child, walking fast, along the church, long trousers, beige, dark colbert, dark hair.
But the PJ doubted about his story.
He saw the “abductor” at the same moment Tanner saw him somewhere else and on the moment Gerry exchanged 14 sms.
It could not be Gerry.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
583
brandon flours Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Chaterlaine
What are your thoughts now if the leaks were true ????????????
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Sorry, Brandon. You have to be more precise. Have little time to spent here and sometimes have to plough through, well let’s say, voluminous nonsense posts … Mentioning no names, but .. you know…
Which leaks?