Should the €500k plus interest have been confiscated by the State?

[G-Unit]

Did we ever find out the reason for her giving up her job?  apart from that old 'looking for Madeleine chestnut'.
 I believe it is more to do with the 'celebrity' personas they have now.

I saw an interview where she said 'the search' was 'her full-time job now'. She said she updated the website and dealt with sales, I think.

Here's interesting, but I think the newspaper misunderstood what was being proposed. Kate had no intention of being a child-minder, she was already thinking in terms of something like her ambassadorial role for missing children, but paid, I expect.

Kate McCann wants a job caring for children full-time once the mystery of missing Madeleine is solved.

A friend said: Kate doesn’t want to go back to being a locum GP. She wants a new career in child welfare.

It has been suggested that Mrs McCann is now best placed to help other parents and children who suffer such trauma.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2007/10/22/maddies-mum-wants-job-in-childcare-384801/#ixzz3cjidSBJ5

[mercury]

One point which I believe has never been discussed is the value of the damages claim and the alternatives.

My own view is that €500,000 plus interest should not have gone to the plaintiffs in damages.  Although it is nigh impossible to put a price on what the McCanns claimed to have suffered due to Amarals book, such an award is unheard of in Portugal.

If Amaral broke the Law in publishing the material he did, would it not have been better sense for the State to confiscate his earnings as a fine leaving the plaintiffs with a nominal sum plus costs?

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the money awarded, like all other monies "awarded" or "made"  or donated goes into the " m mccann fund" and is purportedly all spent to find their daughter, so no one can "criticise that", whether it is true or not, in gerry mccanns words "the vast majority" of the monies goes directly on "search fees " Yes gerry of course it does

[Eleanor]

Goncalo Amaral should have been prevented from day one.  His earnings were ill gotten.  After that, I don't care what they do with it.

[stephen25000]

Goncalo Amaral should have been prevented from day one.  His earnings were ill gotten.  After that, I don't care what they do with it.

and the parents receiving money after what they did?????

[mercury]

Goncalo Amaral should have been prevented from day one.  His earnings were ill gotten.  After that, I don't care what they do with it.

Him writing about the case he worked in is no more ill gotten gains than the mccanns selling their story to every tabloid who would pay especially the SUN telling us how they couldnt "make love"!

But Im sure "every penny gained" went "directly on search fees *cough* sure it did

[Eleanor]

and the parents receiving money after what they did?????

Sorry, Stephen.  I can't get off on what The McCanns did, especially as I did the same myself.  But then you know that, since I have never made a secret of it.

But it was never about the money for The McCanns.  And you know very well that Amaral would just have gone on and on and on.
Nasty, nasty man.

[Eleanor]

Him writing about the case he worked in is no more ill gotten gains than the mccanns selling their story to every tabloid who would pay especially the SUN telling us how they couldnt "make love"!

But Im sure "every penny gained" went "directly on search fees *cough* sure it did

Neither The British Courts or The Portuguese Courts agree with you.

[mercury]

Neither The British Courts or The Portuguese Courts agree with you.

Pray tell what british court doesnt agree with me LOL and why did g mccann lie about where the funds went? Logging off now but look forward to your answer, thats IF you dont delete my post of course ;)