"Police have consistently said they believe the key to finding the girl lies with information held by those staying at the resort".
Gerry and Kate McCann were staying at the resort.
Therefore, it beggars belief why they are wasting their efforts and time with hounding Robert Murat.
"Police have admitted that they have yet to find evidence to link Mr Murat to the missing girl but can keep him in his current status for up to eight months".
Unless of course they are playing the waiting game. Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey.
The police claim that they are concerned with the inconsistencies with Robert Murat's statements.
What about the glaring inconsistencies with the McCanns statements?
The McCanns still hoovering up cash.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Barking up the wrong tree again JH? Anyway, plug my Sedgefield caption competition please, pretty please?
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At the entrance of Ocean’s Club in Praia da Luz, the journalists who participated in the press conference that was held by Madeleine’s parents for the portuguese media, encountered a plastic box to collect donations. A small text, signed by Kate and Gerry McCann, invites everyone who enters the resort to contribute. This gesture was not appreciated by the members of staff, who claim that the resort “is full of collection boxes”.
A fund for Maddie
This box is just one of many ways that Maddie’s parents found to collect money for the ‘Leaving no Stone Unturned’ fund – which counts with almost 900 thousand pounds already (one million three hundred thousand euros).
Justine McGuinness, the McCann’s new public relations, guarantees that the collected money “is being managed by a group of independent persons”, and subject to “very rigorous rules that are imposed by british law to all charities”. Still, McGuinness refuses to explain who are the “highly qualified lawyers and managers” that are managing the fund, just highlighting they are not remunerated, and offered as volunteers.
On the findmadeleine.com site there is an online store, where Gerry and Kate sell yellow rubber bracelets and textile bands, to help finance the cause. Callum McRae, the author of the site, says it was the couple’s idea. Speaking to SOL, McRae explains that the child’s aunt, Philomena McCann, asked him to create the internet page, just two days after the girl went missing. “She knew exactly what she wanted”, says Callum McRae, who created the contents in just one day.
The McCann’s internet page also publicizes several fundraising events, all taking place in the UK, and some planned over 60 days ahead.
To SOL, McRae, who was a student of Madeleine’s aunt in highschool, did not want to specify whether his work on the site is paid by the fund or not: “I’m not authorized to speak about that”. According to the site, the fund’s purpose is to “support Madeleine’s family financially” and to make sure she is found, and her kidnappers brought to trial. After reaching these targets, the collected money shall be used to help solving “similar cases in the UK, in Portugal and elsewhere”.
Twins at the creche
This week, Kate and Gerry moved into a villa outside the Ocean Club, but are still visiting the resort. “They come here every day to drop the twins at the creche”, a member of staff reports.
Kate and Gerry, who are now staying at a villa with a pool, never had to pay for their stay at the resort. “They were not even handed a bill”, the same employee of the Ocean Club says, noting the couple’s detached and somewhat “arrogant” attitude.
Reactions to SOL
Last edition’s article on the McCann case (A pact of silence), has livened the discussion in the UK. Fully translated into english, it has prompted approximately 20 pages of reactions in the forum of the Daily Mirror. Among the comments, there is criticism of the alleged censorship that this work was subject to in the forums of other british media.,
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1140&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=11250
D'yeah think there's a huge ransom for their daughter which could explain all this money lark, an' that they've been told to keep mum?
ReplyDelete'cos the whole thing is gettin' weirder by the day.
Does anyone remember the case of a Dr Smith(?) whom the police believed had killed his own wife? There was never, as far as my knowledge goes, a conviction because they couldn't find the body. This would be about 30 years ago.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone remember the case of a Dr Smith(?) whom the police believed had killed his own wife? There was never, as far as my knowledge goes, a conviction because they couldn't find the body. This would be about 30 years ago.
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