Should the Find Madeleine Fund contribute finances to the SY investigation ?

[Jazzy]

Jazzy you keep contradicting the need for the fund, you've agreed that the SY investigation is being funded by the UK exchequer and now you've agreed with Red that no more can be done to raise awareness of Madeleine's plight !
So once again, why should the fund not now become defunct and any cash reserves held within it not be distributed to other registered charities ?

No, no contradiction, my view hasn't altered one iota, I was commenting on Redblossom's.

[Jazzy]

None on the day I contributed.

[Redblossom]

None on the day I contributed.

Well seems over a million pounds in contributions wasnt enough a few weekss later after the fund was created they started selling merchandise! or is that normal?

[patb]

the whole of maddies family are also victims

I am desperately trying to be open minded about this case and not take things as fact before there is the evidence to do so. If we start referring to the parents as victims , this has to be based on the fact that their child was abducted. As is proof from so much debate, this has yet to be proven. Hence the fact that I have to object to the referral that they are victims rather than "possible victims" . I am sorry if this appears anal but if we accept certain things a fact before proved, little gets acheived. The spin off is that by picking up on use of such language takes the thread off topic and for that I am sorry.

[Cariad]

I didn't contribute to fund an investigation, I contributed to help Madeline and her parents. I did that irrespective of the exchequer. I fully expected a full and professional police investigation by the PJ at the time. That was already funded when I mademy contribution.

So why should it become defunct?

Do you not think that since Madeleine is being looked for and her parents are able to support themselves that the money would be better spent on missing children who don't have a special SY task force or a father earning in the region of three times the average wage?

It seems that the money could really benefit other children in a way that it can't now benefit Madeleine. In fact I think it would be a rather touching gesture if the donation of the fund was made in her name.

[Kazcutt]

How much is left ?
It's like saying if Madeleine is found should everyone donate the money they have made from her name ? No why are people bothered about money

[Cariad]

It might even make some people despise them just a tiny fraction less.

April Jones' parent gave all the donated money to help a little girl in Africa have a better life.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/funds-memory-april-jones-sponsor-6092936

I always thought Coral Jones was a remarkably dignified woman. Watching her grief was truly heart breaking.

[Benice]

Jazzy you keep contradicting the need for the fund, you've agreed that the SY investigation is being funded by the UK exchequer and now you've agreed with Red that no more can be done to raise awareness of Madeleine's plight !
So once again, why should the fund not now become defunct and any cash reserves held within it not be distributed to other registered charities ?

I would assume the majority of money now in the fund has come from the profits from Kate's book.  It was her decision to make that contribution and I don't see how it can be anyone else's place to tell her what she should or should not be doing with her own money.

If nothing comes of the SY investigation it will up to the McCanns to decide how to continue the search for their daughter and how to fund it.    One thing is for certain, just like Kerry Needham, they will not give up until they find out what happened to their child.

 

[LagosBen]

I would assume the majority of money now in the fund has come from the profits from Kate's book.  It was her decision to make that contribution and I don't see how it can be anyone else's place to tell her what she should or should not be doing with her own money.

If nothing comes of the SY investigation it will up to the McCanns to decide how to continue the search for their daughter and how to fund it.    One thing is for certain, just like Kerry Needham, they will not give up until they find out what happened to their child.

 

Add to that the Express payouts to the McCanns and their friend too.

[Benice]

Add to that the Express payouts to the McCanns and their friend too.

Yes indeed  LB   - I'd forgotten about that.     That's another £900,000 that could have gone straight into the private bank accounts of the McCanns and their friends, but was paid into the fund instead. 

[AnneGuedes]

that she is also a victim.

What ? Also a victim ? She is the only victim and you don't know what happened to her. As long as the crime isn't defined, the McCanns are not victims, which doesn't deny their suffering.

[AnneGuedes]

Yes indeed  LB   - I'd forgotten about that.     That's another £900,000 that could have gone straight into the private bank accounts of the McCanns and their friends, but was paid into the fund instead.

Instead of going straight, it passes through the fund before coming back somehow. No PI is appointed any more, so what is the money for ?
I don't mind their business, only "the money will go to the search for Madeleine".

[AnneGuedes]

Yes indeed  LB   - I'd forgotten about that.     That's another £900,000 that could have gone straight into the private bank accounts of the McCanns and their friends, but was paid into the fund instead.

The first crooks, Metodo3, and the second crook, Halligen, had to be paid, isn't it ?

[Benice]

The first crooks, Metodo3, and the second crook, Halligen, had to be paid, isn't it ?

Hardly the McCanns fault that they became one of several victims of a very skilled conman. 

[DCI]

The first crooks, Metodo3, and the second crook, Halligen, had to be paid, isn't it ?

Except some of these crooks as you call them, gave info to the PJ, and it was ignored. NR box I expect!

You never mention all amaral's friends who are crooks