It wasn't their own money Sadie.
It was money they were given as a result of their actions, which is quite distasteful, to put it mildly.
You have never answered properly, one simple question.
Why should others pay for the mistakes of the Mccann's ?
Who said I was trying to bankrupt the Mccann's ?
Asking them to pay from their own resources, seems eminently fair, and most right thinking people would say the same as well.
Meanwhile, haven't the Mccanns been trying to bankrupt Amaral ?
You are clearly OK with that. 
If someone libelled you, tried to ruin your good name and worse prevent the search for your missing child. Then it went to Court, and say you won £500,000 as compensation for their libel against you, who would get the money?
Would that money be yours or someone elses? Please explain yourself stephen.
Would it be distasteful to you that someone put out a multitude of disinformation about you and tried to implicate you in the death of your child ... or would that be alright by you ?
Kate went to the considerable trouble of writing a good book about the Madeleine case.
It was a great success and she earned hundreds of thousands of pounds for it. Was that money hers to spend as she wished?
Kate and Gerry chose to forgo the monies that were rightfully theirs to try and find their missing daughter. Are you saying that they had no right to do that?
I wonder what you would do with such money?
Probably keep it for yourself as the dishonest Amaral and his criminal friend Cristavao have with the monies they earned writing their books? The writings, in their cases, were biased and libellous by British standards
So kate and Gerry gave huge sums [£1 million plus ?] of their own money to help the search ... and you are bemoaning them ?
What a lot you are saying about yourself stephen. And it is not very nice tbh.