Dr Amaral's Defence Funds

IIRC it was 10 EURO not 10 pounds.
I am very interested in the "extras" run up by Mister Gerry, amounting to €242. I'm sure I read somewhere that after the "disappearance" he would quite often blag free bottles of wine etc. off the Ocean Club, who did not have the heart to charge him.

Resistor wrote:IIRC it was 10 EURO not 10 pounds.
I am very interested in the "extras" run up by Mister Gerry, amounting to €242.  I'm sure I read somewhere that after the "disappearance" he would quite often blag free bottles of wine etc. off the Ocean Club, who did not have the heart to charge him.  

That makes sense Resistor. My figure £8-9 would be about €10 in 2007. The exchange rate stg to euro is quite different now.

Posted by portugalpress on May 06, 2015

Brits raise thousands for Maddie cop’s libel appeal

After what many consider the bombshell of a judicial decision - setting record damages for a private Portuguese citizen - British supporters of former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral are rallying en-masse to a “gofundme” online appeal - started intriguingly by a young British woman who was only 14 when Madeleine McCann went missing.
In less than a week, 22-year-old Leanne Baulch’s appeal has raised over £9,200. British media is slating it - suggesting it is powered by “sick online trolls”, but as the Resident looks behind this fast-developing story it is becoming clear that many of these people have no ‘axe to grind’. They are simply appalled at what they see as a case of injustice.
Meantime, police in UK have decided not to go ahead with any prosecutions over the so-called “hate dossier” cataloguing “troll abuse” of the McCanns.
Read the full report in this week’s Algarve Resident newspaper, available in newsagents on Thursday.
Photo: MARIO CRUZ/LUSA
http://portugalresident.com/brits-raise-thousands-for-maddie-cop-libel-appeal

" no axe to grind", I like that. When people read the comments, it's clear to see that the money comes from their heart!
IMO

http://laidbareblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/goncalo-amaral-brief-history.html?m=1

Maybe someone else could post it up in its entirety. On phone.

Thanks

dogs don't lie wrote:" no axe to grind", I like that. When people read the comments, it's clear to see that the money comes from their heart!
IMO

quite agree,honest people don't like to be taken for a ride and now can see the injustice that has been metered out to Snr Amaral by the so called msm and others.

And if Leanne Baulch happens to read here I would like to say a BIG THANKYOU for setting this up,its bloody amazing.

Yes, thank you Leanne if you're watching - come and join us.

Chatelaine, sorry I have accidentally deleted your post, I was going to agree with you and instead of quote pressed delete. 

Projecto Justica has raised £3,222 as of lunchtime today. So if you add both sites together I reckon they are almost halfway to £25,000 wich is fantastic!

candyfloss wrote:Chatelaine, sorry I have accidentally deleted your post, I was going to agree with you and instead of quote pressed delete. 

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No prob Candyfloss.
Can you remind me what it was about .. ?

Bampots wrote:Projecto Justica has raised £3,222 as of lunchtime today. So if you add both sites together I reckon they are almost halfway to £25,000 wich is fantastic!

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It surely is. My glass remains half FULL :-)

I waited up tonight till the fund reached £10000. It just has so goodnight all. AMAZING!!!!

chirpyinsect wrote:I waited up tonight till the fund reached £10000. It just has so goodnight all. AMAZING!!!!

Nikki Plummer ‏@nikki_plummer  · 10 mins10 minutes ago  
Just smashed past £10GRAND! ThankU all the wonderful pp who are donating & donated xx #mccann

Fantastic stuff. Admittedly I have only donated a ten spot to this one as was unsure at first. 

Will stick some more in. 

Not sure why Aquila from over there had to bring me into into it when she accused DFM here of being a troll. Had to mention me ringing TB up although a few hours after the time she stated. Which was a long time ago. For any new folk it was because he made up a lot of shit about me and I rang him to ask him to stop. Simple. Don't like lies.

Funny one that Aquila. 

DFM - don't take any notice. Nobody else does

Bampots wrote:Projecto Justica has raised £3,222 as of lunchtime today. So if you add both sites together I reckon they are almost halfway to £25,000 wich is fantastic!

Holy moly, amazballs!

Going up.......


No 6 ‏@CygnusX336 · 46 mins46 minutes ago
#mccann #je_suis_troll
http://www.gofundme.com/Legal-DefencePJGA …
Great start to election day, GO GONCALO!

Now £10,300 with a small boost from me!

Andrew, yes I agree. I had a dishonourable mention too.

Sonia Poulton ‏@SoniaPoulton · 26m26 minutes ago
No amount of PR can alter fact that #GoncaloAmaral's fundraiser has raised 10x the amount that Kate #McCanns has. People showing displeasure

http://portugalresident.com/brits-raise-thousands-for-maddie-cop%E2%80%99s-libel-appeal-0

Brits raise thousands for Maddie cop’s libel appeal

Brits raise thousands for Maddie cop’s libel appeal
After what many consider the bombshell of a judicial decision – setting record damages for a private Portuguese citizen – British supporters of former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral are rallying en-masse to a “gofundme” online appeal – started intriguingly by a young British woman who was only 14 when Madeleine McCann went missing. In less than a week, 22-year-old Leanne Baulch’s appeal has raised over £9,200. British media has slated it – suggesting it is powered by “sick online trolls”. The Resident follows this fast-developing story which shows no sign of losing pace.

If anything, the impetus now is to find a “high-profile donor” – someone “prepared to underwrite the legal costs” that Amaral faces as he appeals against the judge’s decision that awarded record damages against him in the long-running civil action for defamation taken out by the McCanns over his book The Truth of the Lie.

Slapping Amaral with a bill that tops €600,000 all told, Express on Sunday suggested at the weekend that Judge Emília Melo e Castro has effectively “ruined and shamed” the man who led the original police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.

The Sun was equally scathing, describing 56-year-old Amaral as a “lie cop” in its exposé of what it described as a “sick online campaign”.

But the publicity seems to have “backfired”, Leanne Baulch tells us.

One couldn’t say people are digging “deep” into their pockets, as many donations are for small amounts – but it is certainly a “mass fork out”, with multiple commentaries refuting mainstream media’s slur that these people are “trolls”.

A donor by the name of Emma Mitchell, giving £100, wrote: “Shame on you The Sun… Keep fighting GA, Madeleine deserves justice and so do you.”

Another added her contribution, saying: “From yet another ‘nasty internet troll’ keep on fighting GA, we are behind you all the way.”

Comments on stories posted on our portugalresident.com website also show readers reacting to the insinuation that “anyone who questions the abduction theory” is a troll.

Calling it a “total disgrace”, Jayne Staveley suggests that The Sun’s reporters “are still in primary school”.

But the tragedy behind these comments is that while Madeleine’s parents have always maintained their civil action against Amaral was “never about the money”, it is now becoming more and more clear how important a role money has taken on in this case.

Miss Baulch’s appeal – an extension of the long-running Portuguese “Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral” fund to which she stresses she has “no access whatsoever” – has set out to raise £25,000. As we wrote, donations were steadily flowing in, with over 500 people having raised £9,205 in six days.

Questioned about whether she imagined she would get such a response, the single-mother from Birmingham told us: “I had no idea. I was just desperate to help. I didn’t expect the media to get involved. The Sun and Express reporting shocked me, but it backfired!”

McCann “hate dossier” will “not result in any prosecutions”

As Amaral is thus buoyed by this latest bid to raise money to help him, British media has been carrying 8th anniversary “Madeleine disappearance” stories, including new “revelations” about a string of burglaries on the Praia da Luz resort from which Madeleine went missing.

These burglaries are presented as adding weight to the British police theory that Madeleine may have been abducted as a result of a botched burglary.

But noteworthy when considering mainstream media’s preoccupation with “vile trolls” is the report by Sky news, coming in last week, that the so-called “hate dossier” that hit the headlines eight months ago is not going to result in any prosecutions.

The dossier – which led to the suicide of grandmother Brenda Leyland after she was ‘outed’ as a so-called troll on live television – had been delivered to Leicester Police by what Sky described as an “anonymous source”.

Keenly involved in the story, Sky’s crime expert Martin Brunt claimed that the anonymous source (or sources) have reacted with “absolute dismay” at the decision not to prosecute.

“They say it is tantamount to giving trolls carte blanche to carry on abusing the McCanns,” he wrote.

“Although we haven’t heard directly from the McCanns, I’m sure they too will be astonished because… Gerry McCann said such trolls should be prosecuted.”

As we wrote this story, a new comment appeared on the gofundme site, signed from “MA”: “Dr Amaral, my pledge is to pay an apology fine for every article I see that is biased and un-factual on your behalf. Today’s fine is on behalf of the Express for their use of “troll” “shamed” and “sickening”.

By NATASHA DONN natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

- See more at: http://portugalresident.com/brits-raise-thousands-for-maddie-cop%E2%80%99s-libel-appeal-0#sthash.wgnpMirL.aWysjfHE.dpuf

Nice one 'Tasha
Nice on Leanne

Up and up it goes. It needs a high profile donation, who will dare to contribute??


Mari Welzel ‏@umweltbuerger · 22 mins22 minutes ago
WOW!! £10,455 Thank you !
Thank you for your messages so sincere,touching !
Legal Defence for Goncalo Amaral
http://www.gofundme.com/legal-defencepjga …
#McCann

I'm sure there will be a high profile donation soon, there were speculative tweets a few days ago and Lord Sugar's name was mentioned. Maybe wishful thinking, but we can but hope.

Admin wrote:Up and up it goes.  It needs a high profile donation, who will dare to contribute??  

Alan Sugar

ETA - Ha, beat me to it, costello. Was Lord Sugar's name really mentioned? Double

Can't find the tweets, I've read so many. There are a few people who include him in their tweets. Isabelle McFadden, for one here is one of her tweets.
@Lord_Sugar I paid to make this go to 8k. also 4 May.
Isabelle McFadden @QUEEN de PORTUGAL @Lord_Sugar please RT and I will send you my delicious cookies to your #Miami estate.

Just seen on Twitter from Frances @foxylady93
@foxylady93: important new info has been sent to Amaral's lawyers for use in his appeal against the #McCann hoax.. @dminnimouse https://t.co/apcEkkfTfJ