Helene Davies-Green, wife of Madeleine Foundation chairman, under attack in the Sun

By NEIL SYSON

Published: Today

A WOULD-BE UKIP MP took part in a vile leaflet campaign blaming Madeleine McCann's disappearance on her grieving parents, The Sun can reveal.

Helene Davies-Green, 62, delivered flyers titled "Ten Reasons Why Madeleine Was Not Abducted" to Kate and Gerry's neighbours.

It was produced by the anti-McCann Madeleine Foundation, of which the wannabe politician is a committee member.

Mrs Davies-Green's husband Grenville is the group's chairman.

The folk singer is standing in Cambridge South for the right-wing anti-Euro party on May 6.

Doctors Kate and Gerry, both 42, were left "horrified, angry and upset" by the deliveries in their village of Rothley, Leics, last August.

The flyer claimed if Maddie died in the family's holiday flat in Portugal in 2007, those who caused or allowed the death "got away with it".

Mrs Davies-Green also handed out pamphlets branding the McCanns' spokesman "a master media manipulator" with the group's founder Tony Bennett in Oxford last year.

The foundation has claimed Madeleine, three, was NOT abducted in Praia da Luz and that her parents were to blame for her "death".

A UKIP spokesman said last night: "Whilst having every sympathy with the McCanns and their predicament, UKIP believes in the freedom of speech."

n.syson@the-sun.co.uk

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This email was sent to MF members yesterday:

Dear Oliver Adam,

The Chairman of The Madeleine Foundation, Grenville Green, has asked me (see message below) to send you by e-mail the text of a leaflet some of us circulated in Leicestershire last August. I should add that the Leicestershire distribution was part of a nationwide leaflet drop of this particular leaflet drop, both by our members and by non-members who support our work,

Also for the record I should add that as a result of press publicity about this leaflet, we received hundreds of thousands of hits on our website, a couple of dozen new members, may offers of help e.g. with Portugiese-English translation, and dozens of orders for the leaflet and our book: 'What Really Happened to Madeleine McCann? - 60 Reasons which suggest that Madeleine McCann was not abducted".

Our website is: http://www.madeleinefoundation.org.uk/

You may also wish to be aware that in the one-and-only opinion poll published in the United Kingdom on the McCann case, 80% of respondents said they did not believe the McCanns were telling the whole truth about the disappearance of Madeleine. Later that year, when a long interview with the McCanns was shown on Spanish TV, viewers were asked if they though the McCanns were telling the truth or lying; 70% said they were lying.

Look at the unmoderated comments on any article that is published about Madeleine McCann and you will usually see a vast majority of comments which are sceptical of the McCanns' account of events. The same is true of comments YouTube clips of the McCanns.

FInally, you may also wish to note that several of our members and supporters have publicly declared that they will not vote Conservative at this election because Dave Cameron has employed Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns' chief public relations spokesman for the past three years, to assist the Conservatives' election campaign as second-in-command to former News of the World Editor, Andy Coulson. This includes at least one Conservative Party member and hitherto committed activist for that party.

Before being appointed to help Cameron become the next Prime Minister, Mitchell was employed by Freud Communications. Freud Communications is owned and managed by Matthew Freud, the son-in-law of Rupert Murdoch, who inter alia owns the Sun, the News of the World. the Times, BSkyB and SKY NEWS.

Tony Bennett
Secretary
The Madeleine Foundation
01279 635789


--- On Thu, 15/4/10, grenville green wrote:


From: grenville green
Subject: SUN NEWSPAPER / UKIP
To: ajsbennett@btinternet.com, helene.greenxxx@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Thursday, 15 April, 2010, 14:06


Tony,

Please send a copy of the leaflet, that was dropped in ROTHLEY to Oliver Adam at the UKIP press office.


Syson from the Sun---SCUM---newspaper is wanting to write something about Helene.

Whilst speaking to Oliver (who apparently has a journalistic back ground) it was very clear he knew little to nothing about Goncalo Amaral and nothing what-so-ever about Hollie Greig and Robert Green.

Grenville
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Related: Clue to where this attack originated from on muratfan's blog: http://brenryanandco.blogspot.com/2010/04/helene-davies-green.html

Mike Gunnill, freelance photojournalist and his entrapment of Tony Bennett
Mike Gunnill joins 'Maddie forums' and admits he's taking orders from Carter Ruck and that he has a campaign: link
Mike Gunnill helps to attack the first MF chairman

Madeleine Foundation members forum (registration required)

This comment was posted by Tony Bennett on the forum this morning which shows that Clarence Mitchell doesn't approve of Freedom of Speech - click to enlarge:


In fact it would seem that absolutely anyone will be silenced or destroyed by Team McCann, the media, Clarence Mitchell, Carter Ruck and even Maddie's own parents to help prevent the truth from being known about what happened to Maddie McCann. Had it not been for the misrepresentation of this case in the UK media these leaflets wouldn't have been distributed.

Gonçalo Amaral, the investigating police officer, whose dog was brutally killed and his book banned, in an attempt to silence him, because he knows Maddie was not abducted.

Dead because no one cared

A tragic lesson in official neglect

Leicestershire police: 'We are extremely sorry'

The inquest verdicts on Fiona Pilkington and her disabled daughter Francecca stand as a devastating indictment of the way so many of the vulnerable are abandoned in broken Britain.

Theirs was a family in desperate need of support. Yet everywhere they turned, they encountered only cruelty – and the cold neglect of officialdom.

For ten years, they were subjected to a campaign of systematic torture and terrorism by a gang of feral youths.

Yet despite pleading 33 times for help from the police, they were offered none.

As far as the Leicestershire police were concerned, the inquest heard, this was just ‘low-level antisocial behaviour’ – and mainly a matter for the local authorities.

A senior officer even told the inquest it was wrong for the police to ‘criminalise’ young thugs.

There was no help either from Miss Pilkington’s two councils or the social services.

In short, the whole elaborate network of the modern welfare state broke down. So when Miss Pilkington could bear the suffering no longer, she took her own life and her daughter’s.

This inquest has thrown terrifying light on the attitude of officialdom to whole neighbourhoods where the rule of law and civilised society no longer applies.

The lessons must be learned by every council and police force in the land.


Full article in Daily Mail

Leicester police errors and inaction contributed to suicide of tormented mother Fiona Pilkington
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Spot the difference:

Leicester police spent almost £750,000 protecting Kate and Gerry McCann from their own crimes

Leicester police protect Kate and Gerry from pieces of paper delivered to Rothley residents

The presence of Stuart Prior in Praia da Luz was to avoid the imprisonment of Kate and Gerry McCann

Leicester police advertise the McCanns Fraudulent Fund on the police website



When stepping down in Leicestershire Matt Baggott admitted that one of his big regrets was the continued failure to locate Madeleine McCann

Presumed dead, and justice denied, because no one cares.

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Kate and Gerry McCann: Neighbours dissociated themselves months before Rothley leaflet drop

Madeleine McCann Case Flash! magazine, 30 April 2009 (appears in paper edition only)

Maddie's mother does not leave the house and the father grows ever more distant from his wife

Even the neighbours have dissociated themselves

Two years after the child's disappearance, Madeleine's grandmother Susan tells Flash! she "lost both her daughter and granddaughter that wretched night."

30 April 2009
Translation by Dr Martin Roberts

Kate McCann has become very solitary. The twins, Four-year old Sean and Amelie, are her favourite company now. She leaves the house just for them, Flash! was told by a source close to the family in Rothley, England, home of the parents of the missing child, who disappeared in the Algarve on May 3, 2007. Two years on, this fateful date coincides with Mother's Day. "I never again saw Kate's true smile. Two years later and she's still very reticent about leaving the house. She only goes out to visit the hairdresser and to take the twins to school or elsewhere. She goes to the hairdresser while her children are swimming, says the source 'phoning from Rothley.

The life of Maddie's mother now consists of little else; that and going out jogging once in a while. Kate has changed a good deal since her daughter's disappearance. She's stopped work as a doctor and dedicates herself to her children. Gerry has gone back to work. "He's much busier than she is. He goes to work by bicycle and comes home late," says the same source. He resumed activities. As for the isolation of Kate "It's dividing them more and more." "It's obvious their marriage has suffered with all of this," emphasising that they appear closer to each other when they are with the twins. Besides, "Amelie looks more like Maddie every day." The twins are now the same age as Maddie was when she disappeared.

Kate's mother told Flash! that her daughter and son-in-law are fond of each other despite everything: "Gerry and Kate are very good friends. They care for each other and suffer together. They continue life together for Sean and Amelie's future happiness."

Even the Rothley community has distanced itself from the pair, just like the people of Luz. "When they go to Mass, some of the older folk continue to offer support, but generally the town's population is colder towards them." Nowadays the McCanns are not a part of the area's social scene, unlike before. "They are insular." According to the source the residents are tired of the media, that's why they distance themselves. At most the house is visited by close family and three others "of the group of nine friends (seven friends) who were with them in the Algarve when Maddie disappeared, that is David and Fiona Payne and Jane Tanner, as they are connected with them."

"Kate never did intend to commit suicide"

Lacking support from the community and friends, the former involvement of Gerry and without her daughter Madeleine, Kate feels very much alone. "It is noticeable that Gerry feels rather better than she does about things." And yet, "she never attempted suicide" as was claimed. Both the source and Kate's own mother Susan Healy have told the magazine that. "That's absurd. You cannot begin to imagine what it takes for me to respond to that. My daughter has gone through a lot these two years past. Living's not easy when you don't know where your daughter is, my granddaughter Madeleine, but she would never attempt suicide. She loves Sean and Amelie. They're her reason for living," said Kate's furious mother. Once calm, albeit still preoccupied for her daughter, Susan Healy continues: "I cannot say things are good. I lost my daughter at the same time as I lost my granddaughter that wretched night two years ago. I shudder to think of it, the more so when it's said she's tried to kill herself."

Nor does another source close to the family believe it: "She didn't manage to return to work, to her normal life. She's obviously depressed, but I don't believe she would attempt suicide. She's a rational mother above all who would always think of Sean and Amelie, even in those darkest moments." According to this female friend, Kate has also cut down on her own medication. "She's already given up anti-depressants. Now she takes something with the same benefit but gentler. Despite everything she's gained a little weight and is concerned to look good when she leaves the house." As to the forthcoming date of 3 May, husband and wife are most likely to remain in England with the family. Anyway, for Kate, "Returning to Portugal's unthinkable at the minute. I can't." More self-assured, Gerry McCann has returned twice already to our country. As he often emphasised, he and Kate are determined to find their daughter Madeleine, now six years old.
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Source: mccannfiles
Discussion on Missing Madeleine forum (requires registration)
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A few comments from the forum:

They are not detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, but they are in prison.

I see that Kate's priorities are much the same as they were when her little girl first disappeared - jogging and hairdressers.

conscience is a murderer of mental peace

Yet the population of world are supposed to believe that the whole of Rothley were outraged by the recent leaflets posted by the MF and how these leaflets caused upset to the McC's!

I notice only the Payn"s and Jane Tanner keep in touch, no mention of O"Brien who did not attend the Court proceedings in the libel suit against the DE, nor did he attend the recon in Portugal., I wonder why???

I think this is sad in a way,all it needed was the truth to be told from the begining,and although their lives will never be the same again,maybe they could after a while look each other in the eye.As it is they are in this prison of their own making.

It also has to be remembered that Madeleine wasnt the only child to be left alone in that apartment night after night. The twins were there too. They were already being neglected by their parents - the damage was already being done.

Imo the biggest critics will be their own children when they grow up. This will not be swept under the internet carpet as some would like. This information will be available for all who choose to educate themselves.

I, too, worry about the twins' welfare. Especially when I hear about them playing "Hunt The Monster Who Took Maddie", talking to her on a toy phone, and being forced to paint her name for the cameras.

The global harassment of innocent folk by the McCanns (versus the Rothley Leaflet Drop)

The McCann's reaction to the '10 Reasons' leaflets

In the wake of the recent Rothley Leaflet Drop (a leaflet based on facts contained in the official Portuguese police files), which has caused the McCanns anger and distress, to the point whereby they are considering legal action for harassment, I thought it might be an idea to take a look at the global harassment by the McCanns towards innocent folk.

Given that Madeleine is believed to have died in their holiday apartment and her corpse concealed, it would seem that no seventy year old pensioner, footballer's son, family of gypsies, dying paedophile or Australian millionairess, to name but a few, are exempt from harassment by the McCanns in their never-ending quest to blame someone/anyone else for what happened to three year old Madeleine, who was left in an unlocked apartment to fend for herself and her younger siblings. And let's not forget that this wasn't a one-off act of deliberate negligence, this happened every night of their holiday and was an accident/abduction waiting to happen.

Tragically, one of those incidents did happen, most likely the former according to evidence found in their holiday apartment and hire car.

The McCanns have employed a whole range of lawyers which begs the question: don't any of these lawyers advise the McCanns against this kind of intrusive behaviour into innocent peoples' lives, some of whom have already been investigated, and discounted, by the PJ?

Rather than keep dragging innocent people into their own fairystory lives, why don't the McCanns simply request the PJ reopen the investigation (which is the aim of the Rothley/UK Leaflet Drop), answer the 48 questions and cooperate with the investigation by carrying out the police reconstruction?

Isn't that what innocent people would do? The more the McCann's carry on in this manner, and begging for money which has been used for many things, including their mortgage payments, rather than actually searching for Maddie, the more they make themselves look guilty.

How much longer will the authorities allow this one-sided farce to continue? How many people are going to be sued, threatened, or damaged by the McCanns when all anybody wants is to find out what happened to their little girl whilst the McCanns, in turn, run to the media/police/lawyers and claim they have a stalker?

I personally think that if the McCanns did the right thing regarding Maddie then more people would actually support them, especially if it transpired that they had nothing to do with her disappearance, other than deliberate abandonment in favour of socialising. If neglect is the only issue leading to Maddie's 'disappearance' then why won't the McCanns cooperate with the police? Why do they portray themselves as victims and request police protection when people try to do something pro-active - which, let's face it, is the direct result of inaction by the authorities and misinformation by the media and their own spokesman - to find the truth about what happened to Maddie, especially when they couldn't be bothered to protect their own children from swarthy, predatory paedophiles or fire?

The McCanns are not victims - only Madeleine is.

But if it does transpire that they were involved in Maddie's disappearance or demise then, as a fellow blogger recently said, they are soon to become two of the most despicable and infamous pair of criminals in English history.

A legacy that will leave them forever associated with other NHS scandals such as Harold Shipman - and the whole world will turn against them, possibly including their own family, colleagues and friends (and their children who are yet to learn of their parents' involvement).

Many people feel the McCanns should do the right thing for Sean and Amelie at least. Kate and Gerry are, after all, the very last people who matter in this tragic case and it is time they realised that.

That's all.

By Jill Havern

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Related link: Alfie Wise - a 'pro-McCann' supporter impersonating a Leicester Councillor to issue threats to members of the 3 arguidos.

Some more 'McCann supporter' sites can be found by googling: Chaos Raptors, Rosiepops, Studies in Diseased Subjects, Hounding the McCanns, Murat Fan and Nigel Nessling where you will find all kinds of threats, including threats of violence towards these peoples' spouses and children, particularly towards Tony Bennett, Debbie Butler and Brenda Ryan, which has been going on long before the leaflets were distributed in Rothley and other areas in the UK. The McCanns do nothing to disassociate themselves from these supporters.

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By ANDREW WILKS and DANIEL BOFFEY
Last updated at 18:51 03 June 2007

Police hunting for Madeleine McCann launched a 2am raid on the South London home of an innocent woman in her 70s.
Officers acting on behalf of Portuguese police have targeted at least two properties in South London with similar addresses - both have the same house number and road name and are less than five miles apart.
News of the searches came after Portugal's Policia Judiciaria said they were following leads from psychics and clairvoyants.
It is understood they are clutching to the hope that Madeleine's abductor might pose as someone with psychic powers so that he could free her, tell police of a vision identifying where she could be found - and avoid detection.
There was no sign at either address of Madeleine, who was taken from the holiday apartment of her parents Gerry and Kate in the Algarve on May 3.


Full article: Daily Mail
Image: The McCann Gallery
Wikipedia: Sightings following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Comments on the 3 arguidos: Victims of the McCanns
Why Rothley?

One of the comments:

"There has been a deliberate campaign of misinformation. Misinformation about sightings of suspects, distance of the apartment from the bar. An absolutely biaised account of the disappearance of Madeleine with many inaccuracies passed of as a documentary. Press conferences called. People named suspects not by any recognised official police force and their picture plastered over everywhere. Press conferences called about the latest new leads which always come to zilch. This is what has got to stop."

Some of the McCann's victims.

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Some evidence which suggests Maddie has not been abducted.

Accusatory leaflets scare McCanns

by João Tavares

Gerry and Kate McCann have asked for police protection after leaflets that contain arguments which lead to the couple’s guilt in the disappearance of Maddie, on the 3rd of May 2007, in Praia da Luz, Lagos, were distributed last Friday to the population of Rothley, England, where they live.

‘What really happened to Maddie McCann? – Ten key reasons which suggest that Madeleine McCann was not abducted’. This is the title of the 500 leaflets that were distributed to the post boxes of various houses by members of the Madeleine Foundation. Curiously, that did not happen at Kate and Gerry’s residence. The leaflet points out ten reasons and justifies them with some facts.

“We are peaceful people, we don’t harm anyone, all we want is to get our message through. I don’t understand why the McCanns went to ask the police for help”, the head of the foundation, Anthony Bennett, said during a phone conversation with Correio da Manhã.

The lawyer, who has long battled over the existence of a private investigation into the case, justified the creation of this measure. “Late last year we launched the book ’60 reasons why Madeleine was not abducted’, we have already sold 3000 copies, and now we wanted to create a summed-up version and to pass it on to the population. The majority of the English people do not know well what happened that night, but many believe that Gerry and Kate are not telling the whole truth”, Bennett said, explaining that the leaflet distribution started last May, in areas like London, Devon, South Wales, Nottingham and Leicester. “Basically, we share the arguments that were presented by investigator Gonçalo Amaral”.

A friend of the McCann family told the English press that this leaflet is nothing but “an evil act”. “It’s terrible for Kate and Gerry to know that their neighbours are reading lies. The family is suffering and they feel deceived, because this leaflets will not help to find Maddie at all”.

The Ten Reasons

1 – Most children abducted from home are already dead

2 – Sniffer dogs detect cadaver odour inside the apartment

3 – The couple’s strange reactions after the dogs’ discoveries

4 – The impossibility for an abductor to have entered the house

5 – The McCanns’ and their friends’ refusal to help the police

6 – The McCanns’ and their friends’ change of the story’s version

7 – The McCanns rushed to hire lawyers and spokespeople

8 – The friends’ strange reaction after Kate announced the abduction

9 – The McCanns made plans to mark the disappearance in the future

10 – Gerry and Kate washed the soft toy that Maddie always carried
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source: Correio da Manhã, 16.08.2009
Leafleting: A guide to your Rights
Comments on the 3 arguidos: Accusatory leaflets scare McCanns - CdM 16.08
It's OFFICIAL! The McCanns do NOT want people "searching"!

In the wake of sick pampleteers in Rothley, Kate and Gerry warn that the Mortgage Fund is running dry

16 August 2009

£3M MADDIE FUND EMPTY IN MONTHS
EXCLUSIVE
Russell Myers

The £3million fund to find missing Madeleine McCann will run out out of money by the end of the year.

Cash flooded in from wellwishers around the world after the angelic youngster vanished in Portugal in May 2007 days before her fourth birthday.

But since then, £1million has been spent on private detectives, £123,000 on campaign managers, £100,000 on posters and ads and £110,000 on legal fees and expenses. And public donations to the Find Madeleine Fund - which peaked at £260 an hour - have almost dried up.

The shortfall was revealed as leaflets blaming parents Kate and Gerry over Maddie's disappearance were delivered to every address in the McCanns' home village of Rothley, Leics.

The furious couple have vowed to sue the sick pampleteers.

Meanwhile, 41-year-old doctors Gerry and Kate are meeting fundraising experts as they now have less than £250,000 to continue the worldwide hunt for Maddie.

A source close to the McCanns said: "It's a very worrying time. The money will run out by the end of the year and no one knows where the next lot will come from."

Kate and Gerry have vowed never to quit the hunt for their daughter, who vanished while on holiday with her parents and their two year-old twins Sean and Amelie in Praia da Luz.

Spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "Their search will not stop when the money runs out."

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Source: People

Discussion at the 3 arguidos: PEOPLE: £3M FUND RUNNING OUT 16/08.09

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A few comments:

"Firstly it says 3 million was raised and says nearly 1 and a half million has been spent, only 250, 000 left - still leaves a million or so, I think the subliminal message is - what have the McCanns done with it."

"Auntie Phil vowed the family would sell their houses, so that will be worth a few quid."

"With the help of my calculator and all the figures that we have in the op, I calculate that there is 1.417.000.00 not mentioned. So where is that?"

Kate and Gerry McCann under police protection from Maddie leaflets

MADELEINE McCann’s parents were under police protection last night after a sick leaflet blaming them for the disappearance was posted to 1,500 of their neighbours.

Officers stepped up patrols around the home of doctors Kate and Gerry, both 41, in case the smear campaign escalates into violence.

And police warned those behind the mass leaflet drop that they face prosecution for harassment.

Four-page pamphlets listing “10 key reasons which suggest she was not abducted’’ were posted through 1,500 letter-boxes in the McCanns’ home village of Rothley and the nearby city of Leicester.

One was delivered to each house in the posh cul-de-sac where the couple live – except their own.

Up to 10 people are suspected of the night-time leaflet drop, including one man on a motorbike.

The leaflets were the work of The Madeleine Foundation – a group that tried unsuccessfully to bring a private prosecution against the couple for neglecting their daughter the night she vanished from their Portuguese holiday flat.

The smear campaign comes just a week after the McCanns’ detectives made an appeal to find a Posh Spice lookalike they believe could have masterminded Madeleine’s abduction.

Three days after the then three-year-old vanished from Praia da Luz on May 3, 2007, the mystery Australian woman approached a British stag night reveller at a mar-ina 880 miles away in Barcelona and asked him: “Are you here to deliver my daughter?’’

Police suspect the fresh appeal for information may have sparked the new hate campaign.

In a joint statement the couple said: “We do not wish to dignify the actions of the so-called Madeleine Foundation with any response.

“We do feel it is important, however, that the general public are made aware the Madeleine Foundation has no connection whatsoever with our family or those helping us to find Madeleine, or any law enforcement agencies or child welfare organisations.

“We also strongly believe that the actions of this so-called organis-ation’ do not have Madeleine’s best interests at heart.

“If anything, it is hindering all of our efforts to find Madeleine and to achieve justice.’’

A family pal added: “This is an absolute disgrace. Just how much do Kate and Gerry have to go on suffering?

“They are still battling to come to terms with someone abducting their daughter. Every day must be a living nightmare.

“Yet people who have nothing whatsoever to do with them or the case take it upon themselves to do something like this.

“It is plain and simple harassment and their lawyers will ensure the police act accordingly.

“Officers are having to step up patrols of the area in case this whole thing escalates.

“Kate and Gerry are obviously upset. It must be terrible to think that all your neighbours are reading these despicable lies.’’

The Daily Star cannot publish many of the allegations contained in the leaflet for legal reasons.

The leaflet supports the conclusions of disgraced Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral, who was behind the decision to name Kate and Gerry as suspects in Madeleine’s disappearance and was subsequently sacked after accusing British police of siding with them.

He went on to pen a best-selling book in which he alleges Madeleine died inside the holiday apartment.

The McCanns have had their suspect status lifted and have hired private detectives to try to find their daughter.

Last night their neighbours branded the leaflets “ludicrous and insensitive’’.

Patricia Ball, 71, who lives just 250 yards from Kate and Gerry, said: “The things that were being said made me cringe. It sent shivers down my spine. It was very upsetting. It just seemed to be a nasty and provocative leaflet.’’

Alice Connell, 34, who lives nearby, said: “I felt sick to the stomach when I read it. It just seems like a vendetta against Kate and Gerry.’’

Last night Madeleine Foundation leader Tony Bennett, 61, a retired solicitor from Harlow, Essex, who wrote a book about the case, admitted he was behind the leaflet drop.

“I do not fear any legal action from the McCanns,’’ he said.

“If anyone can demonstrate that any fact in the leaflet is incorrect then I will happily change it.

“We have distributed 1,500 in the Rothley and Leicester area.’’

A police spokesman said the matter is under investigation.
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Source: Daily Star

Leafleting: A guide to your Rights

Maddie with Sean and Amelie, the McCanns three babies who didn't have any protection even from their own parents, when they were left in an unlocked holiday flat to fend for themselves against predatory, swarthy paedophiles or fire.

The McCanns claim Maddie was indeed abducted by a predatory, swarthy paedophile, or the Australian millionairess 'posh spice lookalike' Melissa Karlson, whilst the former detective Gonçalo Amaral says there is evidence to suggest Maddie died in the apartment and her body was concealed and later transported in the McCanns hire car 25 days later.

Rothley leaflets versus Praia da Luz leaflets

Comment by astro on the 3 arguidos

"I read, and watch, this morning, how people in Rothley "have been through so much", or something to that effect.

Well, I'm sorry to say that people in Rothley have been through very little, in comparison to what people in Luz have been subject to, over the last two years.

People in Rothley haven't had their local economy and their image as a child-friendly, peaceful spot, ruined by a crime that they didn't contribute to - quite to the contrary, the people in Luz gave everything that they had, their time, their effort, their very hearts, to try and help find a missing child.

The people in Luz WERE TARGETED BY A LEAFLET CAMPAIGN and when they felt it was yet another insult, yet another humiliation, as they were being used once again to promote a campaign that reminded the world that theirs is a village where children are allegedly not safe (it doesn't get any more ridiculous than that, really), at the very beginning of the tourist season, etc etc etc - I could go on & on, but I don't want to annoy you, you all know how I think & feel about this - they were vilified by Team Mac for being 'unhelpful'.

The people in Rothley know nothing."

People of Luz tear off Maddie posters

Letter of complaint after Anne Davies 'interviews' Debbie Butler on East Midlands Today

Posted on the 3 arguidos

Sir,

During your East Midlands Today broadcast of 6:30pm Friday 14th August 2009, the show’s anchor, Anne Davies, presented an item on the activities of The Madeleine Foundation (‘TMF’). The item covered the recent, lawful, activity of TMF in distributing a leaflet in, amongst other locales, the Rothley Village area of Leicestershire, the content of which, inter alia, relates to the urging for a re-opening of the formal enquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine Beth McCann.

Ms Davies opted to interrogate, as opposed to interview, the on-camera TMF representative, and Ms Davies presented such a biased and subjective ‘report’ on this event as to relegate journalism to the sewers.

I strongly object to the gross lack of professional performance of Ms Davies in this matter, and I earnestly recommend that, in light of her plastic reporting, she revert to her founding secretarial crammer course as a more viable, certainly more honest, career path.

The issue of the loss of Madeleine Beth McCann as a phenomenon itself is so vast and amorphous that no crisp and perspicuous analysis of its concept, let alone the event proper, can avoid being procrustean. Nonetheless, it should be possible to say something helpful, even though it is not likely to be decisive.

Even the most basic and preliminary questions about this matter remain, after all, not only unanswered but also unasked. I should know. As a journalist, Ms Davies failed, miserably so, to professionally exploit the opportunity presented by the activity of TMF and to present a balanced account of events to-date and, indeed, the legitimate realm of alternative approaches as represented by TMF, however unpalatable to some such may be (though unlikely Madeleine herself).

What I do know is that organisations such as TMF, and their related acts, have a proper and rightful place in society’s search for the truth as to Madeleine’s situation. This child was:

(1) betrayed by her parents;

(2) let down by an EU host state; and now

(3) dealt further injustice by the likes of the stance of Ms Davies and your public broadcast organisation.

As a viewer, licence fee payer, and someone who has taken a keen interest in the 'disapperance' of Madeleine McCann for two years, I find such reporting abhorrent, puerile, and reprehensible.

The contemporary proliferation of this sort of reporting also has deeper sources, in various forms of scepticism that deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality, and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are.

These 'antirealists', like Ms Davies, pander to doctrines which undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry.

One response to this loss of confidence has been a retreat from the discipline required by journalistic dedication to the ideal of correctness to a quite different sort of discipline, which is imposed by a pursuit of an alternative ideal of sincerity.

Rather than seeking primarily to arrive at accurate representations of a common world, the individual turns toward trying to provide an honest representation of herself. Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which she might hope to identify as the truth about things, she devotes herself to being true to her own nature.

It is as though Ms Davies decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, she must therefore try instead to be true to herself and her employer: In colloquial parlance, I believe the descriptive word is humbug – as in humbug reporting.

I expect higher standards of and from the BBC, entrenched dumbed down cheap and simplistic regional reporting or not. It seems all Ms Davies has perfected in her career to-date is, and I quote her: “... the art of carrying a tray of teas and coffees, all the newspapers and a great pile of tapes – at the same time”.

God help us.

Faithfully, [name withheld]


BBC RADIO LEICESTER REPORTS MADELEINE FOUNDATION CONCERNS.

Debbie Butler being interviewed today on BBC (merged)

SUN 15/8/09: Maddie villagers get 'McCanns did it' letter
Leafleting: A guide to your Rights

Maddie villagers get ‘McCanns did it’ letter

Angry...McCanns

By ANTONELLA LAZZERI

Published: Today

THE parents of Madeleine McCann were angry and upset yesterday after neighbours were sent leaflets claiming they were to blame for her death.

Vile campaigners put copies of the four-page publication though every door in their home village of Rothley, Leics.

Produced by the "Madeleine Foundation", it included "Ten Reasons Why Madeleine McCann was Not Abducted".

Maddie vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007 when three. The leaflet says if she died in the family's holiday flat those who caused or allowed the death "got away with it".

Full article in The Sun

Related links:

The leaflet which caused anger and upset in downloadable PDF form (the 2nd edition is being distributed from today)

Read all about it: Gonçalo Amaral's book The Truth of the Lie

Dr Martin Roberts: A whiff of scandal

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Response by Tony Bennett posted on the 3 arguidos:

'The Sun' article says this:

"The group, which claims wildly that Kate killed Maddie and Gerry helped hide the body, added 'Reasons Why Her Parents Should Be Prosecuted'."

This is of course a complete fabrication as we have never in our booklet, leaflets or any public statement said (a) that Dr Kate McCann killed Maddie nor (b) that Dr Gerald McCann helped hide the body nor (c) published 'reasons why Madeleine's parents should be prosecuted'.

As this breaches the Press Complaints Commission's Code of Practice by being 'inaccurate', a formal complaint will be lodged shortly.

Just a little reminder here.

Antonella Lazzeri works for the Editor of 'The Sun'.

'The Sun' is owned by Rupert Murdoch's 'News International'.

Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth is married to Matthew Freud.

Matthew Freud owns Freud Communications which employs Clarence Mitchell.

Clarence Mitchell until September 2007 was Director of the government's Media Monitoring Unit, whose job, Mitchell boasted, was 'to control what comes out in the media'.

Clarence Mitchell, who 'lies with as many teeth as he has in his mouth' according to Portuguese Police Federation leader Carlos Anjos, has been the McCanns' chief PR spokesman since May 2007.

And, finally, Eddie barked.

When Eddie barks, he has discovered the spot where a corpse has been lying for at least 90 minutes.

He barked at four places in the McCanns' apartment.

At two places in the McCanns' hired car.

And on two of Dr Kate McCann's clothes.

On one of the children's red T-shirts.

And on Cuddle Cat.

Until this week, a lot of Rothley residents didn't know that.

They do now.

Gonçalo Amaral: The Maddie affair: The parents did it

McCann leaflets cause local anger

The family of missing girl Madeleine McCann have criticised leaflets posted in their home town.

Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, was three when she went missing from a holiday flat in Portugal on 3 May 2007.

The fliers are from a group which is calling for the case to be reopened - but the move has prompted an angry response from some residents. (why would wanting the case to be reopened cause anger? Surely any innocent parent would want the case to be reopened?)

The McCanns said the organisation was not connected to them and its actions could hamper their search. (what search?)

Resident Patricia Ball explained the leaflet had stirred up memories still fresh in the minds of the community.

"It sent a shiver down my spine," she said. "I did not like it at all, it had a nasty feel about it. (Pity you can't ask Maddie what sort of shiver ran down her spine as she died in the holiday flat)

"There is still a candle on the green, so every time you go into the centre of Rothley, you pass the candle and it always reminds you of Madeleine." (The aim of the Madeleine Foundation is to ensure no one forgets about Madeleine)

The group said it had not delivered a leaflet to the McCanns' house as they had been given a copy of a similar publication previously.

The McCanns released a statement saying they did want to dignify the organisation by giving any response - but they believed it did not have Madeleine's best interests at heart. (Actually, McCanns, it's you who don't have Madeleines best interests at heart otherwise it would be YOU who campaigns for the investigation to be reopened - why don't you do that? What have you got to hide about your daughter's death?)

They added they felt that, if anything, it was hampering efforts to achieve justice on Madeleine's behalf. (Justice? Why aren't YOU campaigning for justice for your own daughter by demanding the case is reopened or answering the 48 questions you refused to answer? Why is it left to people who never even knew Madeleine to campaign for justice for her?)

Source: BBC News

Leaflet that caused anger in PDF form
Debbie Butler being interviewed today on BBC

Read Gonçalo Amaral's book, 'The Truth of the Lie' to understand why he and The Madeleine Foundation are campaigning for justice for Madeleine McCann whilst her own parents are campaigning for money that helped pay their mortgage.

http://goncaloamaraltruthofthelie.blogspot.com/

BBC Radio Leicester reports the concerns of the Madeleine Foundation

Post by Midas on the 3 arguidos

"At 8 am this morning I heard that residents of Leicester had awoken to find leaflets on their doormats with The Madeleine Foundation's reasons for a thorough investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. I went downstairs to find mine and will be taking it into work to pass around. I did not know any of this and had considered myself well informed.

Thank you to The Madeleine Foundation for this information. Thank you BBC."


listen live http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/local_radio/

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Comment from Tony Bennett of The Madeleine Foundation:

"The leaflet in question is the '10 Reasons' leaflet which was compiled from contributions to a thread on 3As begun, I think, around February. We published it in May and the first print run of 10,000 leaflets has now been distributed far and wide, mostly by 3As members.

A second print run has arrived this week and we are in a position to send out these leaflets FREE to anyone who can ensure they will distribute them effectively.

Debbie has a couple of TV interviews lined up for later today and I will post more news about this later in the day.

The Nottingham Evening Post have arranged to meet with Grenville Green and Helene Davies-Green in Nottingham this lunch-time and photograph them delivering '10 Reasons'. Grenville is quite well known in Nottingham for his campaigning on carers' rights.

BBC Radio Leicester did a pre-recorded interview with Debbie late yesterday and ran a news item on the leaflet drop from 7am onwards and then every 15 minutes. At 8.00am it was their top news item and ran for approximately 9 minutes.

A group of Madeleine Foundation supporters were distributing the leaflet in various parts of Leicestershire last week, including Leicester, Mountsorrel and Rothley. I am told that the response was good, even from the landlady and customers at 'The Royal Oak', Rothley, where I am told that one leaflet was handed politely across the bar. "



Photo courtesy of Joachim Andrews for The Madeleine Foundation