MADDIE MCCANN PRIVATE EYES OF new article

mossman wrote:

tigger wrote:

mossman wrote:“Additionally money continues to be spent on the wider ‘Awareness Campaign’, reminding people that Madeleine is still missing and to remain vigilant.”


I like that quote. Just what is the wider awareness campaign these days ?

You can order posters, wristbands and more such delights, but you have to pay. The website and facebook can be the only costs to the Fund, Facebook is free unless they pay someone to run it.
It is quite possible that the detectives haven't done anything since SY took over, since they handed them their homework. ("How I lived in a lawless village in wildest Portugal disguised as a fruitpicker and other things we did on our holidays....').
Since the taxpayer is funding the SY search which by now must have gone past the 3 million (April it stood at 2.5 million I believe) and we hear sotto voce that SY will carry on regardless, taking into the account the thousands of psychic sightings as well as the very slowly diminishing 195 leads - how is the Fund helping the search? How are the McCanns searching even as we speak?
Selling posters in order to have others 'search' for Madeleine does not drain the Fund. Or is time spent writing messages for the website and answering phonecalls charged to the Fund?

I think this is a change in tactic by the McCanns. There is no search by them (not that there was to begin with). They can no longer ask for money from the public for a search, SY are involved. They are still money hungry so now the begging bowl is out for an awareness campaign. Perhaps there will be a new product range also.

I have no doubt time spent writing messages for the website are charged to the fund, as is rent on an "office" in Rothley Towers. There are lots of expenses a company can legally have, and the fund is after all a company.

So we are now at the point where:-

The parents have not yet started searching and are not showing any immediate signs of doing so, unless they think she is in Donegal;
There are no private detectives involved in looking for Madeleine;
SY are sitting in an office reading files for more than a year now with nothing concrete to report as far as we know;
The file in Portugal is sitting on a shelf gathering dust

and they continue to look for money from whoever is foolish enough to part with it.

The only awareness campaign that is needed is one to warn the unsuspecting public of what is going on in this sorry story. So much for leaving no stone un-turned. It is a downright utter disgrace that this can happen.

“We have no plans to end the funding and the review into the search for Madeleine will continue.”

James wrote:is the 'hotline' still manned? That is a cost.

there is the Fund administrator's salary (whoever that is).

That person has an important job - to ensure the highest standards of transparency or some such waffle; in addition to counting the stock of good quality wristbands etc and seeing orders are sent out efficiently, lodging the money for them, and the other money coming in. Also putting up financial info on the website - oops, must be too busy with the tasks listed to have time for that.

Panda wrote:I think Esther McVey left because of the dispute about the Fund being used for Legal Fees. There is a video of her making an announcement that a Directors Meeting had voted that the Fund could not be used for Legal Fees. There was also disquiet that 2 months Mortgage payments had been taken so Gerry said it would be returned to the Fund. With the accounting information so sparse we don't know if it ever was.

Kate is writing her 3rd book, due for release next April, with all the money the McCanns have made with books, T.V. Interviews etc they should not take one single penny from the Fund.

If they really are in Donegal it means the twins took time off school.......see how selfish this couple are, couldn't they go to Ireland during school holidays?

wjk wrote:

Panda wrote:I think Esther McVey left because of the dispute about the Fund being used for Legal Fees. There is a video of her making an announcement that a Directors Meeting had voted that the Fund could not be used for Legal Fees. There was also disquiet that 2 months Mortgage payments had been taken so Gerry said it would be returned to the Fund. With the accounting information so sparse we don't know if it ever was.

Kate is writing her 3rd book, due for release next April, with all the money the McCanns have made with books, T.V. Interviews etc they should not take one single penny from the Fund.

If they really are in Donegal it means the twins took time off school.......see how selfish this couple are, couldn't they go to Ireland during school holidays?

I don't know about where they live, Panda but one of my grandsons was on school hols last week and this week for half term, so they could well of been?

AnnaEsse wrote:

wjk wrote:

Panda wrote:I think Esther McVey left because of the dispute about the Fund being used for Legal Fees. There is a video of her making an announcement that a Directors Meeting had voted that the Fund could not be used for Legal Fees. There was also disquiet that 2 months Mortgage payments had been taken so Gerry said it would be returned to the Fund. With the accounting information so sparse we don't know if it ever was.

Kate is writing her 3rd book, due for release next April, with all the money the McCanns have made with books, T.V. Interviews etc they should not take one single penny from the Fund.

If they really are in Donegal it means the twins took time off school.......see how selfish this couple are, couldn't they go to Ireland during school holidays?

I don't know about where they live, Panda but one of my grandsons was on school hols last week and this week for half term, so they could well of been?

Leicester half term is often different from half term in my part of the country. It's this week here, but I think it was last week in Leicester because my son-in-law, who teaches in Leicester was off.