Kate McCann "more driven than ever" to find Madeleine

PeterMac wrote:

Châtelaine wrote:PeterMac, I agree: it is scandalous. . .
So  what the heck are these people doing, apart from filling their own coffers?
. . .

Meetings - with biscuits ! Very important people these CEOs

Those biscuits don't come cheap, you know! Research, content, transport, display...

Andrew wrote:http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/2400338-Guest-post-Kate-McCann-vital-time-was-lost-in-the-search-for-Madeleine

Desperation sets in... her donations are nowhere near target, so they are pulling out all the stops. Including recycling their press release as a "guest post". Mumsnet is full of rottweilers in lipstick who are rabidly pro McCann, but even their admin has had to delete several posts today. You can see where they have been deleted and it's not that hard to imagine why.

BTW I got banned from Mumsnet after getting into a fight with a stupid American, who wouldn't believe that "aluminum" and "aluminium" were the same thing. That's the level of intelligence on there, sadly; I feel sorry for the kids involved.

' rottweilers in lipstick ' 

Brilliant.

from Mike Stapes
To daniel.magson@missingpeople.org.uk
daniel.magson@missingpeople.org.uk
Mon, 8 Jun 2015 at 12:34pm
Dear Sir,
Could you please confirm, or deny, the following, regarding the Missing People 500 mile cycle challenge, taking place between 13th-17th of June, 2015.
1) Is Mrs K McCann is the leader of the Missing People cycle challenge bike ride.?
2) That members of the support team, for the duration of the cycle challenge, are SPS (Special Protection Service) officers, or police officers, protecting Mrs McCann and Fiona Webster, from possible threats to their safety, given that Mrs McCann's family handed over, personally, to Metropolitan Police, a dossier containing threats to the McCann family? If there are protection officers, accompanying the ride, are the Missing People charity paying for their 5 day expenses.?
3) Is it true, that all the other charity fund raiser riders have had to sign a confidentially agreement, that they are not to discuss, talk about, mention, the disappearance of Mrs McCann's daughter, Madeleine, with either Mrs McCann or Fiona Webster, even if they doubt what they have previously been told, for the duration of the bike ride, or, at no time, during the cycle challenge, to oppose, or challenge, publicly, with the threat of sanction/instant removal, from the cycle challenge, the official Missing People position that Madeleine McCann was abducted, from her bed, as told to them, only by their ambassador, Mrs McCann?
4) Is the 500 mile cycle challenge, specifically aimed at raising awareness of missing people, or aimed at, specifically, raising the profile of Missing People ambassador Mrs McCann and her friend Fiona Webster.?
5) Why are Mrs McCann and Fiona Webster, who have both admitted to having left their children, alone, for over an hour, being feted, as fundraisers for Missing People, when it was Mrs McCann's own diliberate decision to leave Madeleine, out of her sight, in an unlocked apartment, abroad, culminating in Madeleine's disappearance.?
6) Has the CEO, of Missing People, donated, personally, to Mrs McCann's or Fiona Webster's cycle challenge fundraising.?
7) Can you explain why Fiona Webster is riding, the 500 mile Missing People cycle challenge 'in MEMORY of Madeleine McCann' instead of, say, 'riding FOR Madeleine McCann'?
Could you confirm, the number of missing people, 250,000 annually, relatives, who have told the Missing People charity, that they were, are. glad the investigation, any investigation, into their missing loved ones, was, is, closed, and that it didn't matter if any investigation was carried out, to locate/find their missing loved ones.?
9) Finally, could the Missing People charity, confirm, in writing, that Madeleine McCann was abducted from apartment G5A, Ocean Club, Praia de Luz, Portugal, on 3rd May, 2007, as Mrs McCann has told them.?

Yours faithfully,

Mike Stapes.
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The 'same' Mike Stapes who sent a FOI to MET Police 'regarding' OG's er, dig, in PDL, Portugal, in June 2014, and eventually got a 'reply' many, many, months later?

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Some very good questions there. 

Interesting about the confidentiality agreement..

Kate is on Good Morning Britain on monday morning,so they are either doing an interview en-route or if it is in London then she would'nt have done the ride.

kylie wrote:Kate is on Good Morning Britain on monday morning,so they are either doing an interview en-route or if it is in London then she would'nt have done the ride.

Is she...

Where did you see that mention / advertised...?

Does the bike ride start Monday.... Too lazy to look it up myself.

ETA - It's Sunday.

https://www.justgiving.com/KateMcCann/

Not looked at it for ages.

Need a sick bucket reading through the comments.

Andrew wrote:

kylie wrote:Kate is on Good Morning Britain on monday morning,so they are either doing an interview en-route or if it is in London then she would'nt have done the ride.

Is she...

Where did you see that mention / advertised...?

Does the bike ride start Monday.... Too lazy to look it up myself.

ETA - It's Sunday.

It was advertised after the ITN news if you watch on +1 you can see the ad at the end.

The bike ride is tomorrow.

No TV in the office but no doubt will catch it later.

Snipped from http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/missing-madeleine-mccanns-mum-leading-9437593#ICID=sharebar_twitter

MISSING Madeleine McCann’s mum Kate will be leading a 500-mile (805km) bike ride tomorrow (Sunday) from Edinburgh to London in June to raise £10,000 for a missing persons charity.

They don't know when it's supposed to start.

What a load of crap anyway.

Andrew wrote:No TV in the office but no doubt will catch it later.

Snipped from http://www.loughboroughecho.net/news/local-news/missing-madeleine-mccanns-mum-leading-9437593#ICID=sharebar_twitter

MISSING Madeleine McCann’s mum Kate will be leading a 500-mile (805km) bike ride tomorrow (Sunday) from Edinburgh to London in June to raise £10,000 for a missing persons charity.

They don't know when it's supposed to start.

What a load of crap anyway.

Maybe the ad will be on after the evening news,

I should have been in Edinburgh now but cos of renevations i cant go till end of month,was gonna get a "I support Goncalo" t-shirt and go and wish her well (not).I'm so disappointed i cant make it.

Just out of interest, does anyone know if there have there been any cases of missing people who've returned home entirely because of the work of the Missing People charity, rather than the police or other agencies?
Apparently they run a helpline for families who have somebody missing and for people who have actually gone missing, but surely that's only doing what a counsellor, the Samaritans or a police liaison officer would do? Aside from some fairly showy PR and advertising, I'm struggling to see what the point of them is. I'm also struggling to understand how a three-year-old, who disappeared while on holiday leaving nothing behind her but the scent of cadaverine, is served by this charity.

Whether this is true I don't know but I've read on Facebook that Kate is due to appear on Good Morning Britain on Monday.

Perhaps she will be filmed in action on the cycle ride?

Kylie mentioned that earlier Freedom.

Please keep up.

Only joking

Oops, another senior moment.

Enlighten me, please. Where's the studio of Good Morning Britain located?

So depending on what article you read... Saturday or Sunday start.

She then has to cycle from Edinburgh to the GMTV sofa for Monday morning.....

I'm sure the cycle starts tomorrow, and maybe the interview is scheduled for on route. Obviously they don't foresee any disruption along the way, just lots of publicity, strange in my opinion. I hope Andrew is right in that Kate will call off, will have to wait and see.

Why would she call it off? She's done runs for Missing People before. I always had the impression she loved doing this kind of thing.

True, they might film on location.
But otherwise it's quite strange to start the cycling tomorrow and be in a London studio on Monday morning ... A goal, which is supposed to have been met 5 days from start ...

Perhaps it's a pre-recorded interview rather than a live one?

costello wrote:I'm sure the cycle starts tomorrow, and maybe the interview is scheduled for on route. Obviously they don't foresee any disruption along the way, just lots of publicity, strange in my opinion. I hope Andrew is right in that Kate will call off, will have to wait and see.

Yeah the itinerary says 13th-17th and it is a 5 day ride. Looking at the Ride2Raise Twitter and the support crew were only at Keele services (Stoke-On-Trent) at lunch time. That means a 12+ hour drive the night before starting a 450-500 mile bike ride?

I know they likely are very fit, but damn if that isn't a tight (and tiring) schedule!

Looks like they're ready for the ride tomorrow:



Is that JMc with Kate?

They will all be hungover and fast asleep by the time it starts looking at that.

Not sure about JMc. 

Can't see him riding 500 meters for a start.