Now This is How You Use a Fund for a Missing Child.

[Redblossom]

Indeed they are.

However, their supporters will then claim it's just the 'trolls' again.

So predictable.

It doesn't occur to them that many people just don't believe them, or are sick of the case, etc.

It is impossible that hundreds and sometimes thousands of negative comments are all *trolls*
 

It is more logical to assume the general posting public are sick to the back teeth and/or do not believe the hype

[Redblossom]

So putting hundreds of thousands of pounds into the Fund when they could have put it into their own private bank accounts, and raising over £50,000 to help find missing people makes them ''money grabbing'' does it?.   If there is a single scrap of logic in that claim I would really like someone to point out where it is.

Even if they have spent every penny of the circa 6m and maybe more garnered on the *search* (which isnt even true and Gerry Mccann alledging the vast majority of it has gone on direct search fees,)  it has got them nowhere...thats without including 6m spent by the UK, 2m by the Portuguese initial investigation, worldwide ongoing coverage, countless PIs, facebook campaign, appeals, documentaries,  book writings, and on and on.....unprecedented, and probably a big fictitious con

Oh and btw there was never any evidence elizabeth smart was abducted!! Nor any evidence that a stranger killed Jonbenet Ramsey!

[Luz]

So putting hundreds of thousands of pounds into the Fund when they could have put it into their own private bank accounts, and raising over £50,000 to help find missing people makes them ''money grabbing'' does it?.   If there is a single scrap of logic in that claim I would really like someone to point out where it is.

The Fund is a Limited Company directed by the McCann couple, an uncle and friends, it's more secure than a bank account.

Until the last financial report the use of the monies were for everything but looking for Madeleine.

[Angelo222]

So putting hundreds of thousands of pounds into the Fund when they could have put it into their own private bank accounts, and raising over £50,000 to help find missing people makes them ''money grabbing'' does it?.   If there is a single scrap of logic in that claim I would really like someone to point out where it is.

Its as simple as this.  They gagged Amaral and this was overturned on appeal.  They have got lawyers to pay who have been working on the basis that they will get paid out of winnings.  Ergo the need to sue everyone.

This action in Lisbon has nothing to do with Madeleine and everything to do with Carter Ruck.

[stephen25000]

Its as simple as this.  They gagged Amaral and this was overturned on appeal.  They have got lawyers to pay who have been working on the basis that they will get paid out of winnings.  Ergo the need to sue everyone.

This action in Lisbon has nothing to do with Madeleine and everything to do with Carter Ruck.

 

An ABBA song springs to mind.

[Benice]

You weren't here, so you didn't see how much they didn't look. Going around the pool, as Gerald did to disguise, is not searching. Why didn't they follow the groups that were all over the village most of the nigh and chose to get out of the apartment at around 5:30 in the morning to go towards the beach passing by the church?

Are you saying that only people who were there are allowed to make comments on the case?   Are you being serious?

The advice of the police in cases of missing children is always  - ''Stay at home'' - in case the child returns and so that the police can easily contact the parents if they need to.   However after the first 24 hours in this case the parents would have been mobbed by reporters had they attempted to walk around PdL with other people.  And anyway most of the first 24 hours was spent talking to the police at 5A - or talking to the police at the police station.   In between those times, they went out searching for their child.

Just as with their decision to adopt the Listening method of checking on their chidren, where sceptics talk as if they were the only parents ever to do that - when it was a commonly practised by thousands of other parents on holiday, you also talk as if the McCanns were the only parents of a missing who did not spend their whole time out searching.   This is not true - I can think of at least 2 cases where the parents did not search,  One of them even said that she could not do it, because she was frightened of what she might find.  Her 3yr old son was never found.  They have never been criticised for it.

And if you really think that people who have just been plunged into the worst nightmare of every parent, thousands of miles away from home would NOT want to turn to their families and loved ones at such a traumatic time then I am very surprised.    It seems the most natural thing in the world to me.

And btw just to dispel another piece of misinformation - priests in this country provide pastoral care for any of their flock on a personal level as and when it's needed.    The dont just get called in when someone dies which I believe is the case in Portugal. 

I notice you haven't commented  on the fact that it was the PJ who first released a full description of Madeleine mentioning her eye marking on the 5th May.