They were given the £10,000 from the hospital but why did they feel the need to put the begging bucket out in PDL, create a new Ltd company and call it a fund, and launch it in a blaze of publicity. Why did they need to keep the running total on the front page of their website and ask for donations on the same page.
This wasn't just a response to some money being given it was a huge request for more IMO.
The larger the target audience the more probability there is of receiving the desired result ... as the Amaral donation request sites have proved.
As we have seen financing investigation into a missing child case most certainly does not come cheap and the McCanns were tasked with financing their own when no-one else was bothered ... right from the archiving in 2008 until Madeleine's case was officially opened by Scotland Yard in 2013.
No mean feat for two private individuals in keeping Madeleine's case going for six years on the strength of fund raising.
Exactly what is it you resent about their success in keeping Madeleine's case in the public eye over that period? How do you suggest they might have achieved that without money to do it with?