McCanns lodge legal bid

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/519300/Maddie-McCanns-parents-lodge-legal-bid-cop-claimed-cover-up



Maddie McCann's parents lodge legal bid against cop who claimed 'cover-up'

MADELEINE McCann's parents have lodged a new legal bid to silence the former detective who claims they covered up her death.


By Jerry Lawton / Published 30th May 2016

BATTLE: Gerry and Kate McCann have lodged a legal bid against cop Goncalo Amaral
Goncalo Amaral overturned a court ruling ordering him to pay doctors Kate and Gerry McCann 500,000 Euro (£380,000) in libel damages over the claims in his best-selling book The Truth Of The Lie.

The victory meant the former policeman – who led the hunt for the youngster for five months after she vanished in Portugal in 2007 – did not have to pay the McCanns any compensation and could re-publish his book.

The couple, from Rothley, Leics, were ordered to pay his court costs.


“The longer it goes on the more anguish it causes them”
A friend of the couple
But they have now submitted an appeal to Portugal's Supreme Court to overturn Mr Amaral's win.

If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter.

A friend of the couple said: "They are exasperated by this. The longer it goes on the more anguish it causes them.


"We hope the appeal will be successful.

"If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay which will come from the fund set up to find Madeleine.

"When Operation Grange ends Kate and Gerry will have to finance their own private investigation again."

Lawton still dancing to the McCann tune. A blatant trick to make the public think GA is robbing the fund. What about just admitting defeat and saving Madeleine's fund any more expense?

I kind of don't see it that way, but perhaps I may be more intelligent than Star readers

Reading between the lines, the message I'm getting is...
The longer this goes on, the more anguish the McCanns feel... yet they themselves are prolonging it by appealing...

and

If they lose the appeal it will wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund... which was sold to the public as a fund to search for Madeleine, and yet it's being used to finance a legal battle which the McCanns brought on and which they themselves are dragging out.

I think it's a clever way to point out two blatant facts to the public.

You hit the nail on the head there about Star readers. However the use of emotive language such as "wipe out, public donations, anguish" etc  tell me he is invoking sympathy for them. Where is the balance? No mention of how GA was proven to have the right to his opinion or how the continuing litigation has impacted his life.
We know the way the process has gone. The average Joe.....they just see what they want to see.

Yes, I'm with you on that, Canada.

The average star reader would also probably come to the conclusion that the 'McCanns lost = must be guilty'... which is a good thing. As is victory and former Policeman in the same sentence.

"If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay which will come from the fund set up to find Madeleine"

In other words - if you have ever donated money to help find Madeleine then you can be rest assured that it has gone/going on legal bills.

More 'seething' behind the scenes as the McCanns would never of wanted the news that they lost to hit the MSM - even if it is the Star. Expect others to pick up on it as well and report...

(Eta - @costello. Better late than never   )

chirpyinsect wrote:Lawton still dancing to the McCann tune. A blatant trick to make the public think GA is robbing the fund. What about just admitting defeat and saving Madeleine's fund any more expense?

Totally the opposite chirpy. It would immediately make people think how dare they use the fund for suing people, it was meant to search for Madeleine not pay lawyers!! I would think the public will be 'seething' for a change.

Just look at the way he has worded it...



If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter.

Must just be me then. And yes I can see it that way too. Just maybe a bit subtle and no balancing.

Another non story,the appeal will be rejected,its just clearing the way.

Heisenburg wrote:Another non story,the appeal will be rejected,its just clearing the way.

.... Clearing the way for what, H?

Andrew wrote:

Heisenburg wrote:Another non story,the appeal will be rejected,its just clearing the way.

.... Clearing the way for what, H?

The end of that particular saga and having to pay the cost's.

We know what the comments have been like recently, could you imagine the comments on this write up? Very carefully worded, that won't make the public sympathise, but will have them seething!
IMO

Andrew wrote:Yes, I'm with you on that, Canada.

The average star reader would also probably come to the conclusion that the 'McCanns lost = must be guilty'... which is a good thing. As is victory and former Policeman in the same sentence.

"If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay which will come from the fund set up to find Madeleine"

In other words - if you have ever donated money to help find Madeleine then you can be rest assured that it has gone/going on legal bills.

More 'seething' behind the scenes as the McCanns would never of wanted the news that they lost to hit the MSM - even if it is the Star. Expect others to pick up on it as well and report...

(Eta - @costello. Better late than never   )

Yes Andrew, I agree better late than never. I'm also off the same mindset as you and Canada12. I hope it's only a matter of time now and that
the public realise what the fund has actually been used for.

Just out of interest (or curiosity) are there any comments on The Star regarding this article?
Looks like quite a headline.

Story now in the Daily Mail, with comments allowed (and appearing):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616604/Kate-Gerry-McCann-lodge-new-legal-bid-silence-former-detective.html

Thanks @ canada12.  The Mail is the most popular paper (I used to work in a newsagents) so great they have finally had a report on this.  I also like his bit of their article  =


The couple's Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte told The Sun that the appeal was sent to the court last Monday.
A family source told the newspaper: 'We hope the appeal will be successful. If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay which will come from the fund set up to find Madeleine.
'When Operation Grange ends Kate and Gerry will have to finance their own private investigation again. They will never give up searching for Madeleine and worry that the continuing legal action could wipe out money they has put aside for this

More than £50,000 was raised by Britons – including an apparent group of police – in support of the Portuguese detective.
A student from Birmingham launched a GoFundMe page to pay for the appeal by the retired officer, who was sacked as head of the investigation after he launched an outspoken attack on British police.
One of the biggest payments to the detective’s appeal fund was £1,000 claimed to be from a ‘very large’ group of unnamed Met police officers who said they were ‘outraged’ at the way the officer had been treated.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616604/Kate-Gerry-McCann-lodge-new-legal-bid-silence-former-detective.html#ixzz4AAHeMrf0
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The Sun reported it earlier as well..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7184145/Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-in-new-courtroom-battle-with-former-detective-who-claims-they-covered-up-Maddies-death.html

canada12 wrote:Story now in the Daily Mail, with comments allowed (and appearing):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616604/Kate-Gerry-McCann-lodge-new-legal-bid-silence-former-detective.html

Just read said article and only 15 comments on there...

Have they been 'trimmed'.....

Looks like it Andrew, just been reading a lot of the comments aren't getting past the moderators.

Adam Boulton
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Kate and Gerry McCann lodge new legal bid to silence former detective
http://dailym.ai/1Vqs1Pa  via @MailOnline

Andrew wrote:http://portugalresident.com/controversy-as-mccanns-%E2%80%9Cuse-find-madeleine-fund%E2%80%9D-to-pursue-former-pj-cop-through-courts

Got to love this.

The row is exacerbating an already difficult time for the McCanns: an ‘old chestnut’ from the past, South African Stephen Birch has resurfaced on social media to launch a crowd-funding appeal to buy the Praia da Luz home where, he claims, Madeleine’s remains lie buried under the driveway.

Andrew wrote:

canada12 wrote:Story now in the Daily Mail, with comments allowed (and appearing):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3616604/Kate-Gerry-McCann-lodge-new-legal-bid-silence-former-detective.html

Just read said article and only 15 comments on there...

Have they been 'trimmed'.....

Yes but a lot of the comments refer to the use of the fund to pay for legal costs. The tide is definately turning , there must be some serious seething going on now.

I couldn't find this 'crowd-funding' appeal that was mentioned... Remember reading not so long ago (somewhere - Justice forum, I think), that some of the McCann supporters/shills were suggesting setting up their own crowd-fund/go fund me, to help out the McCanns with the upcoming costs....

I wonder if any of the shills would forfeit their wages and commission for that..... No, didn't think so either. Of course they wouldn't.

The Portugal Resident article...

Controversy as McCanns “use Find Madeleine Fund” to pursue former PJ cop through courts


News from a UK tabloid that the parents of Madeleine McCann are banking on money donated to the Find Madeleine Fund to pursue former PJ policeman Gonçalo Amaral through the courts has caused a major stir on social media - not least because the couple vowed in 2007 that this could never happen.

A report in Sky News said nine years ago that trustees had announced that “Money from the Find Madeleine campaign will not be used to fund Kate and Gerry McCann’s legal costs"..

Sky went on to affirm that the McCanns “had already said they would not use the cash - more than £1 m - to pay any legal bills, even if the trust had let them”.

But according to Jerry Lawton of the Daily Star, this has all now changed.

Forging ahead with an expensive appeal against the decision by three Appellate judges in April to exonerate Amaral (click here), the McCanns are effectively going for broke, explains Lawton.

They have been ordered to pay both their own and Amaral’s court costs, he said, but this will clearly be suspended while their new “legal bid to silence the former detective” is considered by Portugal’s Supreme Court.

“If they lose, the legal bill could wipe out the Find Madeleine Fund set up using public donations to help the search for their daughter”, Lawton warns.

A friend of the couple confirmed the situation, saying the parents from Rothley have been left “exasperated”.

“If they lose there will be a big legal bill to pay”, said the friend - confirming the money would have to “come from the fund set up to find Madeleine”.

Commentators who feel the coordinator of the original police investigation was well within his rights to freedom of expression to pen his damning book “Maddie: A Verdade da Mentira (The Truth of the Lie)” are beside themselves.

Retweeting the link to Lawton’s story, the consensus on social media is that the couple is prepared to use money that was not donated to fund court battles.

“This is misuse of funds”, a source writing into the Resident has complained.

Even though Amaral’s defence has been funded by donations (click here), the source said this was very different to the situation of the McCanns.

“The difference is that Amaral’s money was donated specifically for his legal costs and for no other purpose”, said the source.

“The Madeleine Fund is specifically for the search for Madeleine, and the directors said at one point that it could not be used for legal expenses”.

Former trustee and one-time GMTV presenter Esther McVey - who only a few months later resigned from the Fund and went on to become a Conservative MP - said the decision was taken despite the fact that “it would be legally permissible to use the money for a legal defence”.

There was a “spirit which underlies the generous donations to Madeleine’s fund”, she explained in 2007, and it was this spirit that trustees had the “responsibility to steer”.

The row is exacerbating an already difficult time for the McCanns: an ‘old chestnut’ from the past, South African Stephen Birch has resurfaced on social media to launch a crowd-funding appeal to buy the Praia da Luz home where, he claims, Madeleine’s remains lie buried under the driveway.

natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

For those who can access Facebook - and can stomach Stephen Birch's ramblings - here is his page.

https://www.facebook.com/diggingformadeleinmccann/?fref=nf

I was blocked from commenting there some months ago after I said what I thought about him posting in the name of Robert Murat's daughter!