Dr Amaral's Defence Funds

costello wrote:There is a brilliant comment on gofundme from a day ago. I don't want to mention the name as I am sure most posters will already know the username on CMoMM. The comment is so explicit and if that doesn't get the message across I don't
think anything will. Well done in my opinion.

Yes, well done to that person.

Of course, just because everything they say is true it doesn't mean anything will be done as a consequence.

PeterMac wrote:"They hired crooks, conmen & incompetents to hunt for Maddie. But only hired the best that money could buy, to hunt the detective."

I wish you were on twitter Peter - you come out with some very succinct one (or 2) liners.

Sorry.
I copied that from the donation site.  Apologies to the original source for forgetting to include the ref.
In my defence - I did remember to include quote marks

I was out of the county when the trial results were posted. To say I was gutted is an understatement I was so convinced Gonçalo would win. What was interesting was the response of many people that we met whilst in Spain. I did not meet one person that believed the McCanns version of events.

Back home now and I have happily today donated to Gofundme website to raise money for Gonçalo Amaral to right a terrible wrong and fight to clear his name and also to get justice for Madeleine.

PeterMac wrote:Sorry.
I copied that from the donation site.  Apologies to the original source for forgetting to include the ref.
In my defence -  I did remember to include quote marks

Never mind - still think you come out with some corkers sometimes.

Resistor wrote:http://portugalresident.com/maddie-cop%E2%80%99s-legal-fund-%E2%80%9Cwell-on-the-way%E2%80%9D-to-the-%E2%82%AC25000-target

I`ll post it in full Resistor

Posted by portugalpress on May 11, 2015
Maddie cop’s legal fund “well on the way” to the €25,000 target

Maddie cop’s legal fund “well on the way” to the €25,000 target
Within 11 days, the British fighting fund set up to help the former policeman dubbed by UK media as the “Maddie Lie Cop” has reached over €13,000.

The target - set by young psychology student Leanne Baulch who was only 14 at the time Madeleine McCann went missing - is now less than €11,000 away, and donations are coming in bit by bit every few hours.

The extraordinary aspect of this latest appeal is that it has been taken up by so many and no matter what the size of donations, people show their feelings that Amaral has been “badly treated” for reasons no-one appears able to fathom.
Indeed, the €500,000 damages set by judge Emília Melo e Castro, plus the further €106,000 in interest - all destined to compensate the parents of Madeleine for the distress Amaral’s book The Truth of the Lie caused them - are reported to be the highest ever awarded against a Portuguese citizen.

With questions constantly appearing on the fund website asking “what is being covered up”, Brits are giving in droves, with donors ranging from grandparents to young people who were teenagers at the time Madeleine went missing.
One of the most recent of the 819 givers was grandmother Kathleen Conell who deposited her £50 saying: “I worry about your safety and only wish someone wealthy with courage would adopt your cause. The corruption in both the UK and Portuguese establishments must be stopped. Democracy is finished otherwise.”

As this latest example of “people-power” righting what they see is a wrong plays out, the mainstream British media is making much of the so-called string of burglaries that appears to have taken place on the resort from which Madeleine went missing just over eight years ago.

Sunday Express writer James Murray has written that British police “have established a pattern of attacks on children in the Algarve… which could lead to a host of other sordid crimes being solved”.

It’s a line that has surfaced every now and then in this infinite mystery and which many query, as if there truly had been a spate of attacks on children in the Algarve, the feeling is that local and national media would have heard about them.
As a source told us this week, what were originally described as “five or six cases, then morphed into over a dozen and suddenly exploded into 30 cases or so, if we are to believe the UK media”.

Meantime, the instigator of the British appeal fund raising money for Amaral’s appeal tells us she has been approached by a number of UK newspapers, but none of them are keen to write about her effort until it reaches the €25,000 target.

By NATASHA DONN natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

- See more at: http://portugalresident.com/maddie-cop%E2%80%99s-legal-fund-%E2%80%9Cwell-on-the-way%E2%80%9D-to-the-%E2%82%AC25000-target#sthash.KnQKujgY.dpuf

Brilliant, isn't it! But sad that we have to rely on Portuguese papers to print the truth. Our own press are a waste of space and dead trees.

Thanks Mimi. Brilliant article. I think it has been sent to some media but I won't hold my breath.

WOW nearly £14,000 now.

That really is good news. It was suggested on twitter that as today would have been Madeleine's 12th birthday people should donate £12 and lots have. Leanne was on twitter a few days ago asking for ideas to keep the fund going. I just hope a few other countries will get involved, and that a large donation is on the horizon.

Trouble is - I reckon he`ll need a lot more than £25,000. Hope she keeps it going if it gets to that amount.

costello wrote:That really is good news. It was suggested on twitter that as today would have been Madeleine's 12th birthday people should donate £12 and lots have. Leanne was on twitter a few days ago asking for ideas to keep the fund going. I just hope a few other countries will get involved, and that a large donation is on the horizon.

I don't know if people would do things like sponsored events.....  like say Cycling    Sorry just joking...... but people could hold a coffee morning, garage sale, all sorts, so not only would it be just a single donation from a person, it would involve others and word getting round. That is of course if it is legal to do that, and I don't see how it can't be.

Mimi wrote:Trouble is - I reckon he`ll need a lot more than £25,000.  Hope she keeps it going if it gets to that amount.

Not sure if I am right here Mimi, but if the fund reaches £25k are the tabloids going to pick up on it (en masse would be wishful thinking) but surely a lot more people would donate.

£14.000 now, absolutely fantastic.

costello wrote:

Mimi wrote:Trouble is - I reckon he`ll need a lot more than £25,000.  Hope she keeps it going if it gets to that amount.

Not sure if I am right here Mimi, but if the fund reaches £25k are the tabloids going to pick up on it (en masse would be wishful thinking) but surely a lot more people would donate.

That`s a real possibility. Hope so anyway. I`m sure it will reach £25,000.

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Poppy wrote:Is it safe to give your email address?

I didn't have to give mine Poppy. I would think it would be okay.

costello wrote:

Poppy wrote:Is it safe to give your email address?

I didn't have to give mine Poppy. I would think it would be okay.

Thank you Costello.but it wouldn't let me do anything without my email when I pressed continue it kept wanting my email.

Poppy wrote:Is it safe to give your email address?

I gave my email address and Martin brunt has not yet turned up on my doorstep......

I can only say that I wasn't worried about supplying an e-mail address.

Antonia wrote:

Poppy wrote:Is it safe to give your email address?

I gave my email address and Martin brunt has not yet turned up on my doorstep......

I will try again.

Poppy wrote:

costello wrote:

Poppy wrote:Is it safe to give your email address?

I didn't have to give mine Poppy. I would think it would be okay.

Thank you Costello.but it wouldn't let me do anything without my email when I pressed continue it kept wanting my email.

Apologies Poppy, I did give my email address and received a receipt.