Kate and Gerry McCanns' Luz host Clement Freud in TV paedophile accusation

 

The late Sir Clement Freud, the soft-spoken, bearded broadcaster and politician, has been accused of being a paedophile. In a TV programme broadcast in the UK on Tuesday night, Freud was accused of abusing two girls, raping one of them when she was 18.

The allegations relate to events in the late 1940s and the 1970s.

Freud, who died in 2009, has a holiday home in Praia da Luz, the Algarve town where the three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007.

Freud’s family stated that Sir Clement was not at the property at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance but Operation Grange detectives still investigating the case now have been alerted to the link between an alleged British paedophile and the McCann family who, after Madeline disappeared, were guests at Freud’s Algarve home and remained in touch.

Kate and Gerry McCann are reported as being horrified to hear the allegations about Freud in the TV programme that are repeated in many of today’s papers.

In other links picked up by the British media, Freud shared an office at the Houses of Parliament with Cyril Smith who also posthumously was declared a paedophile. Freud also gave convicted paedophile Rolf Harris his first TV break.

A spokesman for the McCanns said the family had not been aware of Freud’s child abuse allegations until now and did not know whether Freud has been investigated as part of Operation Grange.

The Metropolitan Police will not confirm or deny whether Freud had been investigated but it is likely that due to his high profile, detectives will have known whether or not Freud was in the Algarve at the time of Madeline’s disappearance.

http://www.algarvedailynews.com/news/9118-mccanns-host-clement-freud-in-paedophile-accusation-storm 

Kate and Gerry McCann: Why so many paedophiles linked to the Madeleine McCann case?

The Queen's New Years Honours List is more like the Child Sex Offenders register.

Posted on the CMOMM forum:

Sir Cyril Smith...

Sir Jimmy Savile...

Sir Clement Freud...

Sir Philip Green...

Lord Greville Janner

Sir Edward Heath

Sir 'Kitty' Richard (allegedly)

Sir Elton John - pending

Under what circumstances do these people get their honours in the first place?

Along with News International and Missing People facing financial difficulty, (almost to the point of closure) in 2006, we have Tony Blair and Lord Levy being questioned in the cash for honours scandal.

I find it odd that these elite and honoured paedophiles have to die before being exposed, is that because they know something? Could that something be that they made illegal and undisclosed loans to Tony Blairs' government?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_for_Honours

After all, it was Blair who panicked and sent the head of his media monitoring unit out to assist the McCanns. Cherie Blair was already involved with Catherine Meyer and her PACT charity. Kate McCann engaged in direct telephone conversations with Cherie Blair (not her PA, as you would expect). Gordon Brown who interfered in the McCann case was soon to take over from Blair, was he acting under Blairs' orders?

Matthew Freud, son of Clement Freud, has just separated from his wife, Elizabeth Murdoch (daughter of Rupert Murdoch)

Rupert Murdoch owns, amongst many other newspapers, News International and The Sun

Rebekah Brook was CEO of The Sun - it is she who blackmailed David Cameron into setting up Operation Grange

From this, it is clear that somehow:

Tony Blair
Cherie Blair
Gordon Brown
Rupert Murdoch
Elizabeth Murdoch
Matthew Freud
Sir Clement Freud
Rebekah Brooks
Clarence Mitchell
Missing People
News International
The McCanns

Are all connected by something sinister

As for these highly honoured paedophiles - could they be members of the Spartacus Club?

Does the Spartacus Club operate in PDL? http://www.spartacusworld.com/en/saunas/portugal



Related links: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12926-newsflash-the-late-sir-clement-freud-resident-of-praia-da-luz-and-friend-of-the-mccanns-exposed-as-a-serial-paedophile-lady-freud-apologises-operation-grange-to-investigate-mccann-freud-links-daily-telegraph-14-jun-2016

http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t1915-references-to-paedophilia-in-relation-to-the-disappearance-of-madeleine-mccann

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/latest-news/adverts-for-elm-guest-house-included-1571994

http://thegaspersstatement.blogspot.co.uk/

https://dwpexamination.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/the-breaking-uk-vip-paedophile-scandal-what-we-know-so-far-mainstream-sources-i-just-wanted-to-put-it-all-in-one-place/

NEWSFLASH - The late Sir Clement Freud, resident of Praia da Luz and friend of the McCanns, exposed as a serial paedophile, Lady Freud apologises, Operation Grange to investigate McCann-Freud links (Daily Telegraph 14 Jun 2016)

• Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent
• Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter

Sir Clement Freud, the former broadcaster and politician, was exposed on Tuesday night as a paedophile who sexually abused girls as young as 10 for decades.

Freud, who died in 2009, spent years abusing a girl who he brought up as a daughter, and violently raped a teenager while he was an MP.

His widow, Lady Freud, has apologised to his victims, saying she is “shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry” for what her husband of 58 years did to them.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have been alerted to the fact that Freud had a villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal, the resort where the three-year-old went missing in 2007.

He befriended the McCanns in the weeks after their daughter went missing, entertaining them at his house on two occasions and keeping in contact by phone and email.

The McCanns are said to be “horrified” by the discovery that Freud was a paedophile.

His family, who include the PR executive Matthew Freud, have said that Freud was not in Portugal at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance and that they have not been contacted by police.

However, officers from Operation Grange, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, are expected to assess the new information before deciding if it may be relevant to the inquiry.

Freud was unmasked as a child sex abuser after one of his victims contacted ITV’s Exposure documentary team, who also broke the story of Jimmy Savile’s paedophilia four years ago.

Sylvia Woosley said Freud befriended her family in 1948, when he was working at a hotel in the South of France, and started abusing her when she was 10.

Four years later, following a family crisis, her mother asked Freud and his wife Jill if they would look after Mrs Woosley, and she found herself living under the same roof as her abuser, being brought up as a daughter. The abuse continued until she managed to move away when she was 19.

Another woman told ITV that Freud started abusing her in the 1970s, when she was 11, and eventually raped her when she was 18, by which time he was a Liberal MP sharing an office with Cyril Smith, who was also unmasked as a paedophile after his death. The rape was so brutal that his victim bled for a week.
Both women’s accounts have been passed on to the Metropolitan Police.

Lady Freud said: “This is a very sad day for me. I was married to Clement for 58 years and loved him dearly. I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women. I sincerely hope they will now have some peace.”

Freud, who was knighted in 1987, was best known as a popular panellist on the Radio 4 show Just a Minute from 1967 until his death in 2009.

The grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of the painter Lucian Freud, he worked his way into the heart of British society, and when he died the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was among the mourners at his funeral.

His five children include Matthew Freud and the broadcaster Emma Freud.

A spokesman for the McCann family said they had not until now been aware of Freud’s child abuse and were not aware that he had ever been investigated by Operation Grange.

The Metropolitan Police did not respond to questions about Operation Grange, but former murder squad detective Colin Sutton said: "If this is something that investigators had not been aware of then it would be certainly a potential line of inquiry that would be worth pursuing.

"It is not something that ought to be taken lightly and you would also want to look any connections he may have had in the area at the time."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-warned-link-between-predatory-8194041 

References to paedophilia in connection with the McCann case: http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12926-newsflash-the-late-sir-clement-freud-resident-of-praia-da-luz-and-friend-of-the-mccanns-exposed-as-a-serial-paedophile-lady-freud-apologises-operation-grange-to-investigate-mccann-freud-links-daily-telegraph-14-jun-2016

 

A comprehensive catalogue of 230 videos relating to the Madeleine McCann case with thanks to HiDeHo

http://forum4.aimoo.com/madeleinemccanncontroversy/WELCOME-to-HDH-Controversy-Info/230-HiDeHo-VIDEOS-Easy-to-view-links-1-2391652.html

http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12925-230-hideho-videos-easy-to-view-list

Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins says Sun banned her from writing about Madeleine McCann

By Dominic Ponsford

Mail Online columnist Katie Hopkins has claimed she was banned from writing about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann when she had a column in The Sun newspaper.

And she has praised the Mail for being “brave” enough to let her tackle difficult subjects.

Speaking on the latest Media Focus podcast she talked about the February 2016 Mail Online column in which she said Madeleine’s parents were partly to blame for her disappearance.

On being one of Mail Online’s two paid columnists, along with Piers Morgan, she said: “The audience we pull on some of the stuff we write is off the scale. They are brave.

“The Madeleine McCann article I wrote, nobody would touch that. In other papers I’ve worked for I was never allowed to write about that topic.

“The Mail will back you and they will provide the legal support that will allow you that freedom. Everyone else is terrified of compliance, terrified of legal costs and terrified of their own shadow.

“I articulate views that a lot of people feel but feel they can no longer say.”

Hopkin left The Sun for Mail Online in September 2015.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-online-columnist-katie-hopkins-says-sun-banned-her-from-writing-about-madeleine-mccann/

http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12919-mail-online-columnist-katie-hopkins-says-sun-banned-her-from-writing-about-madeleine-mccann#342600 

Posted by Tony Bennett on the CMOMM forum as an update to the letter and petition he handed in to the Prime Minister requesting a Full Report into the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann:

Posted by Tony Bennett on the CMOMM forum as an update to the letter and petition he handed in to the Prime Minister (link below) requesting a Full Report into the investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann:

Here is the final reply to the petition - from Rt Hon Mike Penning M.P, Minister of State at the Home Office for Policing, Fire, Criminal Justice and Victims.

It's probably rather less than I hoped, since the main purpose of the petition was to get across the need for a report to the public, in view of the huge amount of pomp and money which so far has achieved nothing but perpetuate the official abduction line for over 5 years. There is not a word about any report, just a comment that 'an investigation is ongoing', so 'we can't really say anything'.

But, as they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

There are ways we can follow this up.

Thank you one final time to everyone who signed and or promoted the petition.

One final comment: I'm surprised at the estimate of expenditure for 2016-7 only being £95,000 - that's barely enough to cover DCI Nicola Wall's salary plus pension contributions for a year, let alone employing any other staff, doing any 'investigation' or making even more trips to Portugal. It might suggest that they are moving towards 'closure'.

***NEW - Reply received from Mike Penning M.P., Home Office, 6 Jun 2016*** (was: Reasons why the public need a report on Operation Grange: The letter handed in to Prime Minister, David Cameron, on 29 April 2016 in support of the petition

Madeleine McCann case: The Possible Dry Run By The Alleged Abductor That Possibly Caused The Alleged Crying Incident.

The Possible Dry Run By The Alleged Abductor That Possibly Caused The Alleged Crying Incident.


If what kate claims is true and she then wondered if someone had tried the night before or made a 'dry run', why then did they still allegedly leave their children home alone again?

They didn't.

All the children were being babysat by the missing adult from the table each night.
They had to claim they were neglectful and leaving their children home alone each night in order for there to be an opportunity for an abduction.

She also fails to explain why, if they allegedly left the children home alone each night, the alleged abductor would do a dry run.

An abductor is not going to go into the apartment, find the child they want to abduct, then leave without said child.
They are not going to do a dry run and think yep, we can do it in the time they leave between checks, we will do the real abduction tomorrow night.
They will not know if the parents are going to be responsible for once and either take their children with them on the last night of their vacation to the tapas bar, hire one of the creche workers to babysit the children, leave the children in the evening creche or have dinner in the apartment.
Any of those options would remove the chance to abduct Maddie.

If they made all the effort to get into the apartment the night before and see their target in bed sleeping and no adults around, and they know the next check is not likely for X amount of minutes, they are going to take the opportunity and abduct Maddie there and then.

They come up with an explanation for something, be it to explain away the alleged crying, the stain on the t shirt, the checks etc and because it is deceptive, it leads to other questions being asked which they then need to explain away.

They came up with an explanation as to why Maddie asked why they didn't come when she and Sean were crying the previous night. They wondered if it was when they were being bathed etc failing to realize that if it were the mccanns bathing them and putting them to bed then the question would not have arisen as they would have heard them crying whilst they were bathing them and putting them to bed.

This then points to the children being either in another apartment whilst kate and gerry were in 5a getting ready or, ALL the tapas children being in 5a whilst kate and gerry were elsewhere.


Read the whole article here: http://tania-cadogan.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/the-possible-dry-run-by-alleged.html

http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12869-the-possible-dry-run-by-the-alleged-abductor-that-possibly-caused-the-alleged-crying-incident

MADELEINE THE MILLION DOLLAR BABY? .... LITIGATION AND THE McCANNS

MADELEINE THE MILLION DOLLAR BABY? .... LITIGATION AND THE McCANNS - whose money are they actually spending? Must run into millions seeing as how they have lost or abandoned more legal actions than they have won.
(sources jillhavern.forumotion.net, themccannfiles.com, maddiemccannmilliondollarbaby.blogspot.com)
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McCanns v Tal & Qual
Why? They said they were libelled.
When? 31 August 2007.
Result? McCanns had to abandon their legal action because the newspaper went out of business through falling sales.
Lawyer used: Carlos Pinto de Abreu.
Carlos Pinto de Abreu quoted as saying: “The press has engaged in a horrific exercise in scandal-mongering, replete with rumours and lurid commentaries...to sell more TV time and newspaper space to advertisers”. Tal * Qual stood by their story; the journalist who wrote the article, Catarina Vaz Guerreiro, said: “I can't reveal my source, but I have complete trust in them. I strongly believe that the person that gave us this information is telling the truth”.
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McCanns v 24Horas (Portuguese media)
Why? Various ‘smears’ against the McCanns including claims that
Dr Gerald McCann was not Madeleine’s father.
When? October 2007
Result? Action threatened but not begun.
12 October 2007, Daily Mail: “Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to sue a Portuguese newspaper in the British libel courts, the Evening Standard can reveal. The McCanns are considering the action against Lisbon-based 24 Horas after becoming increasingly angered by a series of smears. The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell said today: ‘24 Horas is running an absolutely despicable campaign and Kate and Gerry are not afraid to take legal action’.They can bring the action here because 24 Horas has a website available for download in the UK. The damages could be so large, it has been suggested, it could put the newspaper out of business”.
Lawyer used: Carlos Pinto de Abreu.
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McCanns v Media (Express Newspapers, other TV and media outlets)
Why? Claims they were libelled by suggestions they were somehow involved in Madeleine’s disappearance
When? Claim made early 2008?
Result? £550,000 gained, settled out of court, front-page apologies printed Wednesday 19 March 2008 and Sunday 23 March
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck
The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade said: “It is unprecedented for four major newspapers to offer front-page apologies, but it is more than warranted given that the papers had committed a substantial libel that ‘shamed the entire British press’.”
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McCanns v Paulo Reis, Portuguese journalist
Why? Claims they were libelled in a series of articles by Reis in 2007 & 2008
When? Claim made summer 2008?
Result? Paulo Reis mentioned his libel letter from the McCanns in an article dated Ocober 2008; he had already taken a break from writing about Madeleine McCann in order to concentrate on writing about other stories. It is not known if he withdrew any of his articles about Madeleine; probably not.
Lawyers used: Carter Ruck.
Quote from Paulo Reis "I received a letter from Carter-Ruck, threatening to take me to court, if I don't stop immediately writing about the case - something I have no intention to do"
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McCanns v Goncalo Amaral and Portuguese TV Station TVI
Why? Claims they were libelled by suggestions they were somehow involved in Madeleine’s disappearance
When? Libel action was threatened in July 2008 when Mr Amaral published his book but it didn’t get under way until the McCanns served a writ in June or July 2009
Result? Complex! :
· Sep 2009 Book banned, TV1 documentary banned, books impounded
· Dec 2009/Jan/Feb 2010 Hearing of Amaral’s appeal against the book ban; appeal failed
· Oct 2010 Portuguese Appeal Court upholds Amaral’s appeal; book unbanned
. McCanns put forward appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ)
. Mar 2011 Portuguese Supreme Court hears appeal by McCanns against book 'unbanning’ -appeal fails, Amaral’s book can be sold.
McCanns say they will appeal still further.
Lawyer used: Isobel Duarte.
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McCanns v T Bennett & D Butler
Why? Claims they were libelled in a book, a leaflet and on a website by suggestions they were somehow involved in Madeleine’s disappearance
When? 27 August 2009
Result? Bennett and Butler agreed not to distribute ’60 Reasons’ book and ’10
Reasons’ leaflet and not to libel the McCanns; Bennett required to pay £400 Court costs.
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck.
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McCanns v Pamalam (owner of ‘gerrymccannsblogs’ website, and her hosters)
When? 2009?
Why? Claims that Dr Gerald McCann’s blogs were copyright and that there was libellous content on the blog.
Result: Unsuccessful. Pamalam retained the entries complained of as her hosters required the McCanns’ lawyers to obtain a Court Order. The lawyers did not apply for one.
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck.
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McCanns v Madeleine Foundation
Why? Claims the McCanns were libelled by an article by Barbara Nottage in which she said the abduction could not have happened in the claimed time slot of 3-4 minutes
When? January 2010.
Result: Half of the article removed.
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck.
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McCanns v Madeleine Foundation
Why? Claims that a leaflet about Goncalo Amaral was libellous
When? February 2010.
Result: Distribution of the leaflet suspended for four months.
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck.
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McCanns & Jon Corner v McCann Exposure blog & Wordpress
Why? Claims the blog breached copyright and was libellous
When? 2 June 2011
Result: Copyright photos removed and some changes made to the blog’s content.
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck.
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McCanns v Paulo Sargento, Hernâni Carvalho and Manuel Luis Goucha and TVI
Why? Claims they libelled the McCanns in a TV discussion
When? 15 June 2011
Result: ?
Lawyer used: Isobel Duarte.
Quote from article: “Three personalities of the small screen in Portugal began to be interviewed yesterday, Wednesday, after they were declared ‘arguidos’ - suspects, in a complaint of criminal libel. The complaint cites the contribution of the three ‘arguidos’ during the broadcast of a talk-show where details of the Portuguese police investigation of Madeleine McCann were discussed”.
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McCanns v Pat Brown, Criminal Profiler in the U.S.A.
Why? Claims her e-book, 'Profiling the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann', libelled them
When? mid-July 2011
Result: Amazon stopped listing her book, claiming that the McCanns have alleged that her book is defamatory and that, as they haven't the resources to say whether a book is libellous or not, they're removing it from sale. Pat Brown is suing for 'tortuous interference with business' because the McCanns caused her book to be withdrawn from sale on Amazon.
Lawyer used: Carter Ruck.
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McCanns v Tony Bennett
Why? They claim that Tony Bennett has breached his undertaking not to accuse the McCanns of any involvement in the disappearance of their daughter and is therefore guilty of contempt of court. They have said they will shortly issue contempt proceedings. They also demanded the remove of around 50 articles and postings by him.
When? Letter written 12 August 2011.
Result: Contempt proceedings served on Tony Bennett when a large cardboard box was delivered to him by limousine on 1 December 2011. . The articles and postings to which the McCanns objected have been removed.
Lawyer used: Isabel Hudson at Carter-Ruck.
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McCanns v. Goncalo Amaral (and others), at Civil Court of Lisbon
Why? McCanns take out action claiming damages of 1.2 million for defamation and distress to themselves and their three children caused by his book.
When? February 2012 but postponed until September. But start delayed again due to the ill health and hospital admission of Goncalo Amaral.
. January 2013 commencement of proceedings postponed again due to McCanns seeking extra-judicial (out of court) settlement. Settlement not reached.
. September 2013 court action commences
. January 2015 - in her summing up the Judge appears to state that the majority of the claims made by the McCanns are largely unproven.
. April 2015 - but in a surprising Ruling the Judge rules that Amaral must pay 500,000 Euros in damages to McCanns, and she banns further sales of his book The Truth of the Lie .
. April 2016 - Goncalo Amaral appeals to the Appellate Court against the Civil Court judgement and wins. His book ban is lifted.
. May 2016 - McCanns to appeal to Supreme Court against the Appellate Court Judgement in Amaral's favour.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/JillHavernCompleteMysteryofMadeleineMcCann/permalink/1762479357329883/ 

Peter Hyatt, Statement Analyst, makes an appearance on TV in the case of missing Ayla Reynolds

Ayla Reynolds was reported missing - abducted - by her father.

All the evidence points to an accident to Ayla at best, or a deliberate killing at worst, in his house.

The case is covered by the U.S. programme Crime Watch Daily -in an upfront style a million miles away from the way we do things in the U.K.

There are four parts to it:


1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8AWodf-bF0

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZckAfWAYWw

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZckAfWAYWw

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tul6EFSXNKQ


Peter Hyatt appears in the last two minutes of the second video above.

There are differences from, but also many similarities to, the reported disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12903-peter-hyatt-statement-analyst-makes-an-appearance-on-tv-in-the-case-of-missing-ayla-reynolds

Controversy as Kate and Gerry McCann “use Find Madeleine Fund” to pursue former PJ cop through courts

Posted by portugalpress on May 30, 2016

Controversy as McCanns “use Find Madeleine Fund” to pursue former PJ cop through courts

News from a UK tabloid that the parents of Madeleine McCann are banking on money donated to the Find Madeleine Fund to pursue former PJ policeman Gonçalo Amaral through the courts has caused a major stir on social media - not least because the couple vowed in 2007 that this could never happen.
A report in Sky News said nine years ago that trustees had announced that “Money from the Find Madeleine campaign will not be used to fund Kate and Gerry McCann’s legal costs"..
Sky went on to affirm that the McCanns “had already said they would not use the cash - more than £1 m - to pay any legal bills, even if the trust had let them”.
But according to Jerry Lawton of the Daily Star, this has all now changed.
Forging ahead with an expensive appeal against the decision by three Appellate judges in April to exonerate Amaral (click here), the McCanns are effectively going for broke, explains Lawton.
They have been ordered to pay both their own and Amaral’s court costs, he said, but this will clearly be suspended while their new “legal bid to silence the former detective” is considered by Portugal’s Supreme Court.
“If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter”, Lawton warns.
A friend of the couple confirmed the situation, saying the parents from Rothley have been left “exasperated”.
“If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay”, said the friend - confirming the money would have to “come from the fund set up to find Madeleine”.
Commentators who feel the coordinator of the original police investigation was well within his rights to freedom of expression to pen his damning book “Maddie: A Verdade da Mentira (The Truth of the Lie)” are beside themselves.
Retweeting the link to Lawton’s story, the consensus on social media is that the couple is prepared to use money that was not donated to fund court battles.
“This is misuse of funds”, a source writing into the Resident has complained.
Even though Amaral’s defence has been funded by donations (click here), the source said this was very different to the situation of the McCanns.
“The difference is that Amaral’s money was donated specifically for his legal costs and for no other purpose”, said the source.
“The Madeleine Fund is specifically for the search for Madeleine, and the directors said at one point that it could not be used for legal expenses”.
Former trustee and one-time GMTV presenter Esther McVey - who only a few months later resigned from the Fund and went on to become a Conservative MP - said the decision was taken despite the fact that “it would be legally permissible to use the money for a legal defence”.
There was a “spirit which underlies the generous donations to Madeleine’s fund”, she explained in 2007, and it was this spirit that trustees had the “responsibility to steer”.
The row is exacerbating an already difficult time for the McCanns: an ‘old chestnut’ from the past, South African Stephen Birch has resurfaced on social media to launch a crowd-funding appeal to buy the Praia da Luz home where, he claims, Madeleine’s remains lie buried under the driveway.
natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

- See more at: http://portugalresident.com/controversy-as-mccanns-%E2%80%9Cuse-find-madeleine-fund%E2%80%9D-to-pursue-former-pj-cop-through-courts#sthash.iYPj1oUO.dpuf

Posted by portugalpress on May 30, 2016

Controversy as McCanns “use Find Madeleine Fund” to pursue former PJ cop through courts

News from a UK tabloid that the parents of Madeleine McCann are banking on money donated to the Find Madeleine Fund to pursue former PJ policeman Gonçalo Amaral through the courts has caused a major stir on social media - not least because the couple vowed in 2007 that this could never happen.
A report in Sky News said nine years ago that trustees had announced that “Money from the Find Madeleine campaign will not be used to fund Kate and Gerry McCann’s legal costs"..
Sky went on to affirm that the McCanns “had already said they would not use the cash - more than £1 m - to pay any legal bills, even if the trust had let them”.
But according to Jerry Lawton of the Daily Star, this has all now changed.
Forging ahead with an expensive appeal against the decision by three Appellate judges in April to exonerate Amaral (click here), the McCanns are effectively going for broke, explains Lawton.
They have been ordered to pay both their own and Amaral’s court costs, he said, but this will clearly be suspended while their new “legal bid to silence the former detective” is considered by Portugal’s Supreme Court.
“If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter”, Lawton warns.
A friend of the couple confirmed the situation, saying the parents from Rothley have been left “exasperated”.
“If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay”, said the friend - confirming the money would have to “come from the fund set up to find Madeleine”.
Commentators who feel the coordinator of the original police investigation was well within his rights to freedom of expression to pen his damning book “Maddie: A Verdade da Mentira (The Truth of the Lie)” are beside themselves.
Retweeting the link to Lawton’s story, the consensus on social media is that the couple is prepared to use money that was not donated to fund court battles.
“This is misuse of funds”, a source writing into the Resident has complained.
Even though Amaral’s defence has been funded by donations (click here), the source said this was very different to the situation of the McCanns.
“The difference is that Amaral’s money was donated specifically for his legal costs and for no other purpose”, said the source.
“The Madeleine Fund is specifically for the search for Madeleine, and the directors said at one point that it could not be used for legal expenses”.
Former trustee and one-time GMTV presenter Esther McVey - who only a few months later resigned from the Fund and went on to become a Conservative MP - said the decision was taken despite the fact that “it would be legally permissible to use the money for a legal defence”.
There was a “spirit which underlies the generous donations to Madeleine’s fund”, she explained in 2007, and it was this spirit that trustees had the “responsibility to steer”.
The row is exacerbating an already difficult time for the McCanns: an ‘old chestnut’ from the past, South African Stephen Birch has resurfaced on social media to launch a crowd-funding appeal to buy the Praia da Luz home where, he claims, Madeleine’s remains lie buried under the driveway.
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News from a UK tabloid that the parents of Madeleine McCann are banking on money donated to the Find Madeleine Fund to pursue former PJ policeman Gonçalo Amaral through the courts has caused a major stir on social media - not least because the couple vowed in 2007 that this could never happen.
A report in Sky News said nine years ago that trustees had announced that “Money from the Find Madeleine campaign will not be used to fund Kate and Gerry McCann’s legal costs"..
Sky went on to affirm that the McCanns “had already said they would not use the cash - more than £1 m - to pay any legal bills, even if the trust had let them”.
But according to Jerry Lawton of the Daily Star, this has all now changed.
Forging ahead with an expensive appeal against the decision by three Appellate judges in April to exonerate Amaral (click here), the McCanns are effectively going for broke, explains Lawton.
They have been ordered to pay both their own and Amaral’s court costs, he said, but this will clearly be suspended while their new “legal bid to silence the former detective” is considered by Portugal’s Supreme Court.
“If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter”, Lawton warns.
A friend of the couple confirmed the situation, saying the parents from Rothley have been left “exasperated”.
“If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay”, said the friend - confirming the money would have to “come from the fund set up to find Madeleine”.
Commentators who feel the coordinator of the original police investigation was well within his rights to freedom of expression to pen his damning book “Maddie: A Verdade da Mentira (The Truth of the Lie)” are beside themselves.
Retweeting the link to Lawton’s story, the consensus on social media is that the couple is prepared to use money that was not donated to fund court battles.
“This is misuse of funds”, a source writing into the Resident has complained.
Even though Amaral’s defence has been funded by donations (click here), the source said this was very different to the situation of the McCanns.
“The difference is that Amaral’s money was donated specifically for his legal costs and for no other purpose”, said the source.
“The Madeleine Fund is specifically for the search for Madeleine, and the directors said at one point that it could not be used for legal expenses”.
Former trustee and one-time GMTV presenter Esther McVey - who only a few months later resigned from the Fund and went on to become a Conservative MP - said the decision was taken despite the fact that “it would be legally permissible to use the money for a legal defence”.
There was a “spirit which underlies the generous donations to Madeleine’s fund”, she explained in 2007, and it was this spirit that trustees had the “responsibility to steer”.
The row is exacerbating an already difficult time for the McCanns: an ‘old chestnut’ from the past, South African Stephen Birch has resurfaced on social media to launch a crowd-funding appeal to buy the Praia da Luz home where, he claims, Madeleine’s remains lie buried under the driveway.
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Portugal Resident: Millions of Brits are reading “Maddie: The Truth of the Lie” online

Posted by portugal press on May 26, 2016

Millions of Brits are reading “Maddie: The Truth of the Lie” online

Just as the parents of Madeleine McCann are reported to be taking their legal dispute with former PJ detective Gonçalo Amaral to Portugal’s Supreme Court, the Resident has learnt that millions of Brits have been reading the book at the heart of the fight by accessing it online.

Since “Maddie: The Truth of the Lie” was once again cleared for sale following a ruling by the Appeal Court in Lisbon last month (click here), over two million one hundred and thirty eight thousand people have visited the Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann forum - the site that carries a translation of the book into English.

Moderators say that following the ruling by three Lisbon judges that Amaral was within his right to self expression in publishing his thesis about what may have happened to Madeleine, visits to the site have been exceeding 200,000 - 300,000 a day.

In all, over 11 million people have viewed “Maddie: The Truth of the Lie” - while the forum claims its global number of visits now stand at over 81 million.

What all this means in terms of a legal fight that is concentrated on outlawing the book is unclear.

It is not banned in any country of the world, and even though the McCanns are apparently intent on suing any publisher who takes it on for the UK market (click here), it appears to have been read by well over 11 million English-speakers.

This news comes in a week when the British press has suddenly opened the floodgates to celebrity criticism of the McCann parents.

Sharon Osbourne, the outspoken media personality and wife of heavy-metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne, labelled the couple “insane” to have left their children unattended while on the fateful family holiday to Praia da Luz nine years ago, while former model Katie Price, speaking on the Loose Women chat show, backed her comments saying the couple shouldn’t have gone on holiday if they weren’t prepared to take their children out with them.

Osbourne’s remarks were labelled “ill informed” and “ignorant” by a friend of the McCanns, but the retort got nothing like the same kind of media coverage.

Meantime, blogs in Portugal following the McCanns legal fight have stressed that the couple’s appeal to the Supreme Court is by no means a ‘done deal’.

The “next step” will be to find out if the court accepts it. This decision is unlikely to be taken before the end of June, reports Textusa (one of the blogs most active for what it calls “the right to exercise the duty of being a citizen), with “expected notification around a week later”.

“If there are no technical mistakes” - Textusa explains that the appeal has to follow certain rules - Amaral will then have his own time-scale to submit counter-arguments, all of which will take the case well past the judicial holidays in August.

“We don’t see a decision from the Supreme Justice Court on this case before Christmas, and even then we’re being optimistic”, says the blog that writes all its posts in English.

Also writing in English for the benefit of non-Portuguese visitors, the Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral blogsite has revealed that contributions raised largely from Brits last year (click here) will cover Amaral’s latest call to defend what he maintains is an issue of the right to freedom of expression.

Says the blog: We remain confident, as always, that Justice will be served and Freedom of Speech, of Opinion and of Information will prevail.

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The British sniffer dogs, Eddie and Keela, alerted to blood and death scent in the McCann's holiday apartment, on Kate McCann's clothes and in the car the McCann's hired more than 3 weeks after Maddie 'disappeared'. So, if it wasn't Maddie who died in the McCann's apartment, leaving death scent on Kate's clothes, then who was it?

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