@azureline** wrote:
The McCann's have also made a bit of money taking those who have theories which are different to what they are telling us to Court.
I have not seen that..... any links?
I am sure they would not be compensated monetarily for that?
these are a couple
they currently have a 1m pound suit against the former police chief ..mentioned in the opening post by Wendy Murphy.
Pat Brown (a profiler) has has some problems .
The link below may highlight some of the issues ?
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Memorandum submitted by The Madeleine Foundation
Executive Summary
The Madeleine McCann case has been unique. It would be unwise to change existing media procedures based just on this one case. Different considerations apply to the libel of Robert Murat and to the alleged libel of the McCanns.
'Abduction' has frequently been claimed by parents of young children when it later turns out that he child has died and the parents are responsible, whether the child has died as the result of an accident, negligence, neglect or deliberate act. It is important that the media are able to engage in reasonable and fair discussion of the weaknesses of any particular claim of abduction, without fearing the consequences of a possible expensive libel action.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmcumeds/memo/press/ucps3802.htm
6. The Press Complaints Commission's primary role is to ensure 'fair' and 'accurate' reporting, as its Code provides. This, we acknowledge, is a particularly difficult task when a factual issue is hotly contested and also becomes one of worldwide media interest, as was - and remains - the case, with the Madeleine McCann mystery. Here, then, is a summary of the two main views on the case, with a brief look at who supports each view.
Viewpoint A: Madeleine McCann was abducted at round about 9.15pm on Thursday 3 May while her parents and their friends were dining at a Tapas bar 120 yards away
7. This has been the claim of the McCanns from their first announcement that Madeleine had been abducted at around 10.00pm on Thursday 3rd May 2007. The 'fact' of the abduction was put into the media with lightning speed. The Daily Telegraph had an online article, reporting the 'fact' of the abduction, filed at 00.01am on Friday 4th May. TV and press reports giving details of how and when Madeleine was supposed to have been abducted circulated and multiplied rapidly.
8. During the course of 2007 it became clear that the McCanns were claiming the abduction took place at around 9.15pm on 3rd May 2007. In September 2007 Dr Gerry McCann - as several papers reported - publicly suggested that the abductor might have been in the apartment with him as he was checking the children between 9.05pm and 9.10pm. What we claim is the weakness of the evidence for the abduction is the focus of our booklet: "What Really happened to Madeleine McCann" and the Committee is respectfully referred to the facts and arguments there.
9. Those who hold that Madeleine was abducted view all discussion of an alternative view with hostility. The McCanns' press spokesman Clarence Mitchell, together with unnamed legal 'sources' who advise the McCanns, have characterised such views as 'libellous'. They have gone further and described the original senior investigator in the case, Snr Goncalo Amaral, as guilty of deliberately attempting to smear them, and to fabricate evidence against them, whilst at the same time failing to conduct a proper search for the alleged abductor.
