Book saves fund from the brink - Sunday Express

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KATE MCCANN'S BEST-SELLING BOOK SAVES FUND FROM THE BRINK

Sunday January 20,2013
By James Murray

THE fund to help find Madeleine McCann would have plunged into the red unless her mother Kate McCann had written her best-selling book on the mystery disappearance.

In 2011 the accounts stood at £125,175 but figures for the period ending in March last year show there is now a healthy £474,867 in the bank.

Kate’s book, Madeleine, published in May 2011, earned £738,487 after tax for the fund. A total of £550,000 of that was for serialisation in two national newspapers, which meant the book itself produced £188,487. Global sales and a paperback edition of the book are still bringing in cash.

The directors would like to thank everybody who bought and read Kate McCann’s book.

A report by the six directors of the fund, including Kate and Gerry McCann, says: “The directors would like to thank everybody who bought and read Kate McCann’s book. We believe the search for Madeleine is in a much stronger place as a result.

“We will continue to ensure Madeleine is not forgotten and will leave no stone unturned in our search for her.”
The fund is no longer paying private investigators to search for Madeleine as Scotland Yard is conducting its review of all the evidence.

About £1.8million in donations poured into the fund from well-wishers in 2007 after the anguished couple pleaded for help across the media to find their daughter after she disappeared.

...there is now a healthy £474,867 in the bank.

There WAS that amount in March 2011

I can sleep easier knowing that the McCanns still have enough to pay off their mortgage and whatever else is necessary.

ffs we believe the search for madeleine is in a much stronger place --whats that supposed to mean more fake sightings --

If the search is in a much stronger place, I take that to mean that none of we vile Internet trolls has done anything to discourage people from looking for Madeleine.

May we now get on with expressing our legitimate concerns about this case without bully boy tactics to shut us up?

It also then means that Tony Bennett and Amaral have also not harmed the search

might need to screencap that before it disappears

the fund would not have pluinged into the red, because the SY are conducting a review with our, the taxpayers money, and the McCs have confirmed that their private defectives had stopped looking whilst the review was being conducted. and didnt they stop looking before that date. jimo