Riddle of misinformation as media reports McCanns “down to their last €72,000”

All kinds of misinformation appears to be surfacing as the countdown begins on whether (or not) the Metropolitan Police search for Madeleine McCann is really due to end Click here.

The most bizarre detail appeared in Portugal’s national tabloid Correio da Manhã on Sunday, suggesting the McCanns were “reduced to €72,000” in a Fund that in its heyday had raked in close to €5 million.

The reasons, claims CM, are “travel expenses, payments to detective agencies and a €500,000 claim for damages from former PJ detective Gonçalo Amaral”, whose appeal against the €1.2 million civil suit lodged by the McCanns was upheld earlier this year.

This last ‘reason’ for the depletion of the massive fund instantly set tongues wagging on various ‘Madeleine sites’ online.

No-one appears to have been aware of any kind of counter-claim by Amaral.

The truth is the ‘news’ is a red-herring.

The Resident has been in touch with the man whom the McCanns have been pursuing in court since 2009 and he told us he had “stopped reading Correio de Manhã years ago”.

“I don’t know what they are talking about,” he said. “The problems of the McCanns are their own,” he added. “I am not interested in their lives.”
But Amaral stressed that he has not asked for “any kind of compensation” - let alone €500,000.

“In my new book I touch on these subjects,” he told us, referring to the book he began writing when the Met’s multi-million pound Operation Grange investigation began Click here.

“But at this point in time, I have nothing to say.”

Amaral has always been a man who measured his words, and he has never had a press spokesman - as the McCanns have had throughout their nine-year ordeal.

Mainstream media reported last month that because of their current purported money troubles, the couple have decided to drop Clarence Mitchell as their media spokesperson.

But bystanders on fora dedicated to discovering the truth of what happened to the missing toddler have suggested the new ‘running-out-of-money stories’ could be a precursor to declaring that the McCanns will be unable to pay any kind of expenses on the legal horizon.

“I don’t know if this is just another publicity stunt,” said Jill Havern, who runs one of the many Madeleine online fora. “It was in the press a while ago that the McCanns were moving some money from the search fund in order to pay for future searches! People donated to the Madeleine Fund purely to search for her, not for legal bills, but that inconvenient truth appears to have been lost in all the PR nonsense.”

Certainly, there is a moral issue as to whether the Fund should be used for legal expenses as shortly after its inception, former trustee Esther McVey stressed the “spirit which underlies the generous donations” which she felt trustees had the “responsibility to steer” Click here.

McVey resigned from the Fund shortly after making this statement.

Meantime, eyes now are on October 5 - the date media sources claim could see an end to the Met’s long-running investigation that this far appears to have spent in excess of €15 million of British taxpayers’ money.

natasha.donn@algarveresident.com


Caption: The McCann couple pictured in 2007 in the Algarve

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Above all things, the tragic case of Madeleine McCann has taught me to trust nothing that the media feeds the population. Incidentally , If the Mccanns are short of money why don't they downsize from their huge house and raise some cash, 'Leaving No Stone Unturned'? ( is this a little Masonic joke, I wonder)

Well said GEG (OP).

No money to pay legal bills?  I do not believe that  their solicitors would carry on representing them if they thought the bills could not be paid.   They know they have a huge house worth a good few bob surely they would have to sell that to settle any legal bills?

I do wish the result of the appeal would come soon.   How can it possibly be taking so long?

@plebgate

'I do wish the result of the appeal would come soon.   How can it possibly be taking so long?'
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The McCant's 'trying' to 'find' a 'sympathetic' judge/s, at the PSC, to 'hear' their 'appeal'? (ala their last lost appeal? by their trying to have a judge 'removed' from that appeal 'panel', 'adding' several months to the 'case', that time)

If the McCanns or the Find Madeleine Co. Ltd. was down to it's last 72 pence it wouldn't make an iota of difference - not to the 'search' for Madeleine.

The McCann team have done absolutely nothing since April/May 2007 to 'search' (actively or proactively) for Madeleine.  So what do they need money for - as if I didn't know!

Kate McCann (I think) said years ago they would sell their house if necessary - well now's your chance.  Do something positive to help your lost daughter, put down the begging bowl and stop whinging by way of the media.