VIDEO - Tony Bennett faces PRISON at the Request of the McCanns!

pennylane wrote:Thank you HiDeHo, yet another excellent video.

God bless you Mr Bennett. Stay strong! My prayers are with you, and may the truth prevail!

I feel Madeleine would still be here today, where it not for the McCanns selfish, narcissistic ways, which sadly we still see exhibited to this day! They seem incapable of change, and that will be their downfall (imo).

AnnaEsse wrote:Excellent HiDeHo. Thank you.

pennylane wrote:Thank you HiDeHo, yet another excellent video.

God bless you Mr Bennett. Stay strong! My prayers are with you, and may the truth prevail!

I feel Madeleine would still be here today, where it not for the McCanns selfish, narcissistic ways, which sadly we still see exhibited to this day! They seem incapable of change, and that will be their downfall (imo).

The McCanns came up with 3,000 or so pages of evidence against me. Mostly my own articles and postings.

I have responded by making a formal application to the High Court to be free...d from a part of one of the 11 undertakings I gave. That is the part that effectively prevents me from saying anything at all about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - unless it is to support what the McCanns and their friends say about Madeleine being abducted.

In support of that application is an Affidavit about 65 pages long and with several exhibits.

My second Affidavit, i.e. my Affidavit of defence, is around 100 pages long and has further exhibits.

Obviously much of the contents of these two Affidavits and exhibits consists of factual matetial relevant to Madeleine's disappearance which is never discussed in Britain's mainstream media. At least on 9 and 10 May the content of my Affidavits and exhibits will be made public and those attending the court will hear what is in them.

Probably the central features of the case will be Isabel Hudson's cross-examination of me, and my cross-examination of her - plus I dare say a fair amount of legal argument.

I'm pretty sure the case of Spiller v Joseph in the Supreme Court will come into it (it's available in full on the net).

Most certainly the issue of whether this is a fair trial or not (under Article 6(1), European Convention on Human Rights) will come into it. It is certainly not a fair trial. The nation's most expensive libel lawyers are in the ring against a bloke who cannot afford to be legally represented, legal aid being refused to him on the simple and only ground that his savings are over £8,000.

The right to free speech under Article 8 ECHR will also come into it. It was the law under this Article that made the Portuguese Appeal Court (October 2010) and the Portuguese Supreme Court (March 2011) decide that the general public in Portugal should, after all, be allowed to read Dr Goncalo Amaral's book.

Yet in this land of free speech, I may be sent to prison, lose my savings and half my house for little more than circulating Dr Amaral's findings and commenting on them.

I do not expect justice on 9 and 10 May.

But I hope for it.

Tony:
Marie, you wrote: "It is so not looking good for Tony on the 9th". I regret to say that I think your assessment is completely accurate. The newspapers are full of the abduction: D.C.I. Redwood has helped by telling us about the '195 investigative opportunities', his timeline analysis which shows Madeleine could have been taken by a stranger, and his age-progresssion photo, paid for by the taxpayer, which we are meant to look at, and simply 'phone him if we see her. I notice he didn't put up any of those 20-odd pics of 'suspects' and 'persons of interest' etc. that the McCanns have shown us over the years.

So, if I had to pick up a time to stand alone against the best paid and most experienced team of libel lawyers in the country, this would not have been it.

It is certainly going to be very, very tough - and the McCanns' lawyers, just to make sure I was as anxious as I could be before this hearing, told me on Monday that their total costs to date were around £125,000. It's easy to get up to those sorts of figures when you charge £1,000 an hour for your services.

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