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 6:37 am
Hob Nobs ? Bloody life of luxury that cat leads.
Ours had to make do with a plain digestive
Nite, coco
July 10th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Nite nite X
July 10th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Plain - I thought that they had fallen off the table but he has been sat eating them at the far end of the table. He’s the only cat I have ever had with a sweet-tooth and the worst one to have his teeth cleaned.
In case the RSPCA are reading this - I don’t wittingly let him do this. He’s a sneak thief.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:29 am
679 - coco
chocolate or plain?
July 10th, 2008 at 6:27 am
One of my cats has just eaten a 2 full hob-nob biscuits.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I don’t like the Clan Vicar doll. He keeps shaking and shivering when I’m not even touching the cord.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:23 am
He comes with a collection box and a well-written letter asking if there is one single barrister prepared to stick their neck out risking the rest of their career to give their opinion for a modest fee.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:21 am
The Clan doll manufacturers are doing a line of hybrid dolls now!
I’ve just seen the one I’m getting. It’s Frilly-Philly crossed with Cuddle-Cat! Fucking gorgeous!
It looks like Bagpuss in a frock with eyes that pop right out!
When you pull the cord at the back - it spits and snarls and bares its teeth and says things like, ‘I could hear her screaming at the police officers!’
July 10th, 2008 at 6:16 am
DuncannessR …… I can’t get used to my new nail-tips and I am pressing send before I mean to! lol
And I’m pissed. I was too tired to drink really but I’m off all day!
I think that I was going to say something like, ‘ The dolls will keep me occupied for hours.’ Which sounds very childish - but then again I didn’t expect anybody would read it!
It’s embarrassing sometimes when you refer back to your own posts! X
July 10th, 2008 at 6:11 am
DuncanR …….. LOL Hard to believe - but a certain poster said that to me. She does not know that I am not a well person and that I am feeble-minded.
Been on the Tia Maria with a dash of vodka for the past hour sifting my personal emails and decided to talk tripe to myself again!
July 10th, 2008 at 6:08 am
670 - Coco
This is a ???
Don’t leave me hanging in suspense !
July 10th, 2008 at 6:07 am
The clan doll manufacturers are doing a Tony Bennet doll complete with a Court-house!
There is a special edition K doll called Special K that spits at Tony Bennet and tells him she’s furious and looks really hard!
Kelloggs are going to sue them apparently - for nicking the name of a breakfast cereal coz they think she’s a bad image - no breasts!
No matter how thin a Kelloggs bird - she always has breasts!
July 10th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Shouldn’t be long before we find out that Clanny ones are on tranx and suffering too much stress and trauma.
Which one will get the sick-note out first or are we going straight for the too feeble and pathetically ill to stand trial like Pinochet?
Are we perhaps going to see an odd Amy Winehouse in and out of the nut-house caper type-thingy stuff?
Is one of them going to have a ‘vision’ again?
Sh*te! I have just snapped CM doll’s head off! I was running my fingers through his coiffed locks and whoosh clunk!
My Clan dolls are a complete set now and the buggy arrived whilst I was out yesterday.
The Clan doll manufacturers said that they don’t know why I haven’t received the big blue bag I ordered or the cutie miniature bible and Gerry doll’s laptop .
But all the different mobile phones have arrived - I have just got to match each phone to the correct doll and I get a big prize.
It’s a scale model of the MW complex complete with swimming pool and Tapas bar! Yeahhhh!
So I can wear my Amaral moustache that came with the Amaral doll and interrogate all the dolls individually (there’s a free water-board!)
If they don’t answer my 40 questions I can frog-march them all over the model complex of MW and then interrogate them again.
And say things like - ‘You will do the reconstruction!’ And make ‘em go over the time-line again and again and again! lol
This is a
July 10th, 2008 at 5:57 am
668 - coco
You, childish?
July 10th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Just wanted to be childish and have my post be this number!
July 10th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Veritablequandary! This makes mucho sense! Something a bit too nice and saccharine then!
July 10th, 2008 at 4:42 am
662 coco
Cheryl is a puzzle.
I tend to think she is a fake, as I’ve said here several times before.
She doesn’t sound like an American, to my American ears.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:36 am
I’m off to bed now and having a lie-in tomorrow so I would love it if somebody comes up with an alternative to the Smith family. So that we have the Smiths …… and somebody else - who can then put this mysterious disappearance to bed.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:33 am
I’m glad that you pointed out to Cheryl about the Ramsey job. I didn’t want to upset her because she seems really sweet.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:31 am
I remember TB’s replies to me in the early days when I told Anorak that I had asked Leic Soc Services if I would be OK leaving my 3yr old daughter and my 18mths old twins alone whilst I went to a local bar.
He was great! Stopped me from thinking I was the only person in the World who thought the Clan should be accountable for the mystery disappearance.
July 10th, 2008 at 4:19 am
657
Hi Coco, I am on and off.
How ya doing?
July 10th, 2008 at 4:14 am
546 Cheryl
I think your exoneration of the Ramseys is a bit premature.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Am I on my fucking own again?
July 10th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Hi Mr Amaral! I
hope that we see you on TV shows shortly.
Good luck with book sales to make up for all the horrible things that have been said about you; the fact that you can no longer carry on in the career you love; and the fact that your own superior officers do not seem to support you in the eyes of the World.
God Bless!
July 10th, 2008 at 2:16 am
I should very much hope that the Public Prosecutor has mucho discussions with original officers as a working party before he shelves/closes this case because there is a whiff of diplomatico interferencio if all the emails and shuffling of four principle diplomats is to be believed.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Payne Window Payne Window Payne Window Payne.
Window of opportunity already organosed at this point before ROB finds puking child who we find may not have been puking because staff have no records of pukey sheets.
Small window of opportunity my arse. I believe 100% in the sniffer dogs. 1000%
July 10th, 2008 at 2:06 am
I feel sorry for the Public Prosecuters who have to read lies after lies,
contradicions after contradictions.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I’m also shocked with the Paynes
I had the hope they would be true and loyal to Madeleine.
Poor child can only count on the police.
I hope her ghost will visit those Riff Raff 9 every night.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Do we know whose spermywermy was used yet?
I wonder if it was the spermywermy of a mate that was used or even a mate’s eggs that were used.
Or even if a mate carried the baby and kept out of sight until the baby was born?
Or it was a hybrid baby of all different spermywermy and eggies and DNA?
July 10th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Châteleine, yes, near the church, towards the beach.
But on hour after Jane Tanner saw the abductor?
On this case about 10.15, when everybody was already searching for her? And the church is near to the resort?