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by Tony Bennett 21.07.10 8:17
Brian Kennedy:
The Cheshire Police Connection and ‘Rotherhamgate’:
The Rotherham Rugby Union Club Slush Fund
Brian Kennedy’s role in the investigation into the disappearace of Madeleine McCann is pivotal in the whole mystery. Here’s one of a number of artcices about him that we intend to feature on our website in the coming months.
An article by The Madeleine Foundation, 20 July 2010
As we’ve covered in our separate article about the McCanns’ private investigators, Cheshire-based Brian Kennedy has for the first three years after Madeleine McCann’s disappearance both funded and effectively directed the work of the McCanns’ private detectives.
CON-MAN
Latterly - early in 2009 - he appointed two ex-Cheshire retired police officers to head up his brand new private investigation team, handily placed in Knutsford, Cheshire. This followed his disastrous appointment of controversial Spanish detective agency, Metodo 3, as the lead private investigators for the McCanns, at a cost of a reputed £½ million. It appears they achieved nothing. That was followed by the even more embarrassing choice by Brian Kennedy of Kevin Halligen to lead the private investigation. For Halligen turned out to be a hard-drinking con-man who was picked up by police, hiding in a 4-star Oxford Hotel, in October last year. He was wanted for extradition to the United States, where he faced allegations of a $2 million fraud. Since October he has languished in the high security Belmarsh Prison, south-east London. He cost the McCann investigation a further £½ million, again drawing a total blank so far as obtaining any information regarding Madeleine’s whereabouts was concerned.
The two former Cheshire police officers he appointed, ex-Detective Inspector Dave Edgar and ex-Detective Sergeant Arthur Cowley, have been Kennedy’s chosen men for over a year.
CHESHIRE POLICE RENTS ACCOMMODATION FROM BRIAN KENNEDY
Less well-known is that a key department of Cheshire Police rents office space directly from one of Brian Kennedy’s many property companies.
As was reported in 2007, one of Kennedy’s property interests, Patrick Properties, very possibly named after his son Patrick, obtained a £60 million funding boost to exapnd their property portfolio. The company was established in 2002 by Brian Kennedy himself and Managing Director Andrew Dickman The Patrick Properties empire, based in Wilmslow, included Premier Park, Winsford and Crewe Business Park. One of the tenants of Patrick Properties is a department of Cheshire Police, the so-called ‘Public Order Training Unit’. Perhaps Kennedy’s close contacts with Cheshire Police enabled him to make the decision to appoint two ex-Cheshire detectives to assist with his private investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
A £750,000 BRIBE
But our main interest in this article is to look at claims that Brian Kennedy was involved in the planned payment of £750,000 bribes to Rotherham Rugby Union Club (Rotherham RUC) Club back in 2002.
On 19 December 2002, the Daily Telegraph published an article which began: “Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy stated yesterday that he would open every accounting book that he has in order to prove to a Rugby Football Union (RFU) enquiry that there was no slush fund set up to persude Rotherham RUC not to accedt promotion into the Premiership last season [= end of the 2001-2 season]. An article in May 2002 stated that Rotherham’s promotion to the Premiership had been rejected at the last minute due to inadequate paperwork.
A week earlier, on 12 December 2002, the Telegraph had broken the story of how Worcester Rugby Union Club owner Cecil Duckworth had told the RFU how a special slush fund was set up to bribe Rotherham RUC into failing to meet the criteria for being promoted to the top flight the next season. In the event, they failed to be promoted on the grounds that they had ‘failed to provide the required documentation relating to ground-sharing with Rotherham United Football Club’.
The Telegraph reported that Duckworth had met RFU officials at Twickenham to air his complaint. A three-man RFU delegation, Chief Executive Francis Baron, Chairman Graeme Cattermole and Disciplinary Officer Robert Horner were charged with pusuing an investigation into the alleged scandal. They later appointed an independent inquiry headed by Anthony Arlidge, QC, to investigate the whole matter.
Duckworth’s allegation was that influential owners of several Premiership clubs considered a payment of £68,000 per club to encourage Rotherham not to accept promotion. Brian Kennedy was named by Duckworth as one of the alleged co-conspirators.
The background to this is that the 12 Premiership clubs had for years believed to have conspired to keep themselves as an ‘exclusive’ club of the top dozen clubs. The ‘relegation issue’ was a source of controversy for years, with concerns that the 12-strong Premiership was keeping out other clubs leading to an official Office of Fair Trading investigation being started in September 2001.
In the event (see below), Rotherham also officially received an amount varioulsy said to be £740,000 or £720,000 as a ‘parachute payment’ designed to compensate for their failure to be promoted.
KENNEDY REACTS ANGRILY
Kennedy reacted swiftly and angrily: “When someone makes such a high-profile accusation as this, on allegations that are unfounded, with evidence that is flawed, we have to go public in response. I want my part in this inquiry to be clear, overt and fair. If we turn our back on it, then the implication will be that there is something to hide. The truth is that there is nothing to hide. Come and see my books. These allegations are wrong. I for one will not be sneaky and underhand when it comes to giving my evidence. There are some daft notions flying about. One paper suggested yesterday that owners like me are in it for the money to be made. How ridiculous! If I'd invested in rugby in order to make money, then I would seriously question my commercial judgement. I came in to stop Sale from disappearing off the map, to try and give the North-West some top-class sport. That's all. All I'm interested in is driving this business towards break-even. I'll tell you now, if I ever did make a profit at Sale then I'd give it all to charity”.
SECRET MEETINGS
But The Times unearthed evidence of secret meetings. They reported that:
“Allegations that Premiership rugby union clubs considered bribing Rotherham not to take up their promotion place last season were given fresh impetus yesterday. The independent inquiry set up by the RFU has received information claiming that three leading club figures held a secret meeting at a Jersey bank last August, only a fortnight before the new season began. According to the information, the individuals, two from Premiership sides and one from a First Division club, met at a bank in St Helier on 16 August 2002. When contacted by The Times yesterday, one of the men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied ever having been to the Channel Islands. The other two did not return calls”.
The Times repot continued:
“If the meeting is substantiated, what they discussed could be of great importance to the inquiry investigating claims that Rotherham were to be paid £750,000 to turn down promotion last season, after winning the National League First Division title. The inquiry team has also been notified of details of a meeting allegedly held between two prominent rugby personalities on a yacht off Monte Carlo last May. The head of the inquiry team, Anthony Arlidge Q.C., had also been told of an England international from a Premiership club, involved in last season’s relegation battle, who claimed that he knew as early as last February that no club would go down because ‘a “deal had been struck’.
The report went on: “Mike Yarlett, the Chief Executive of Rotherham RUC, denied receiving any payments, described the allegations as ‘mischief making’, but then refused to assist the enquiry in any way”.
The £750,000 was alleged to be have been paid to Rotherham in addition to the ‘parachute payment’ to which the club was entitled. Half the £750,000 would, it is alleged, have come from central Premier Rugby funds and the other half from the 12 clubs themselves, who would each contribute £31,250.
The Times continued: “According to information passed to The Times, this was agreed at a meeting at the Weston Manor Hotel, near Oxford, in October 2001 and rubber-stamped on 6 April last year. The allegations surrounding last season surfaced after claims were made about a similar payment this year for Rotherham, who are again favourites for promotion. This was allegedly discussed at a meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, near Heathrow, on Monday, December 2”.
RUGBY CHAIRMEN DISCIPLINED
Anthony Arlidge Q.C. in his final report, made adverse comments on four individuals in particular: Premier Rugby Ltd (PRL) chairman Charles Jillings, Gloucester Rugby Union Club owner Tom Walkinshaw, Northampton Rugby Union Club owner Keith Barwell, and Rotherham chairman Mike Yarlett.
Warning letters about their conduct in the ‘Rotherhamgate’ affair sent to Walkinshaw and Jillings “indicated the RFU's displeasure in the way, as successive chairmen of PRL they either encouraged or allowed discussions about improper payments to Rotherham RUFC”.
Mike Yarlett of Rotherham RFC was rebuked for “his willingness to manipulate the facts to fit a required situation in relation to the date of signing a lease in relation to the use of Millmoor (Rotherham United FC Ground)”.
Worcester Rugby Union Club chairman Cecil Duckworth was also reprimanded, for ‘airing dirty laundry in public rather than pursuing a complaint through official Rugby Football Union channels’.
Whistle-blowers are rarely popular.
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The Cheshire Police Connection and ‘Rotherhamgate’:
The Rotherham Rugby Union Club Slush Fund
Brian Kennedy’s role in the investigation into the disappearace of Madeleine McCann is pivotal in the whole mystery. Here’s one of a number of artcices about him that we intend to feature on our website in the coming months.
An article by The Madeleine Foundation, 20 July 2010
As we’ve covered in our separate article about the McCanns’ private investigators, Cheshire-based Brian Kennedy has for the first three years after Madeleine McCann’s disappearance both funded and effectively directed the work of the McCanns’ private detectives.
CON-MAN
Latterly - early in 2009 - he appointed two ex-Cheshire retired police officers to head up his brand new private investigation team, handily placed in Knutsford, Cheshire. This followed his disastrous appointment of controversial Spanish detective agency, Metodo 3, as the lead private investigators for the McCanns, at a cost of a reputed £½ million. It appears they achieved nothing. That was followed by the even more embarrassing choice by Brian Kennedy of Kevin Halligen to lead the private investigation. For Halligen turned out to be a hard-drinking con-man who was picked up by police, hiding in a 4-star Oxford Hotel, in October last year. He was wanted for extradition to the United States, where he faced allegations of a $2 million fraud. Since October he has languished in the high security Belmarsh Prison, south-east London. He cost the McCann investigation a further £½ million, again drawing a total blank so far as obtaining any information regarding Madeleine’s whereabouts was concerned.
The two former Cheshire police officers he appointed, ex-Detective Inspector Dave Edgar and ex-Detective Sergeant Arthur Cowley, have been Kennedy’s chosen men for over a year.
CHESHIRE POLICE RENTS ACCOMMODATION FROM BRIAN KENNEDY
Less well-known is that a key department of Cheshire Police rents office space directly from one of Brian Kennedy’s many property companies.
As was reported in 2007, one of Kennedy’s property interests, Patrick Properties, very possibly named after his son Patrick, obtained a £60 million funding boost to exapnd their property portfolio. The company was established in 2002 by Brian Kennedy himself and Managing Director Andrew Dickman The Patrick Properties empire, based in Wilmslow, included Premier Park, Winsford and Crewe Business Park. One of the tenants of Patrick Properties is a department of Cheshire Police, the so-called ‘Public Order Training Unit’. Perhaps Kennedy’s close contacts with Cheshire Police enabled him to make the decision to appoint two ex-Cheshire detectives to assist with his private investigations into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
A £750,000 BRIBE
But our main interest in this article is to look at claims that Brian Kennedy was involved in the planned payment of £750,000 bribes to Rotherham Rugby Union Club (Rotherham RUC) Club back in 2002.
On 19 December 2002, the Daily Telegraph published an article which began: “Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy stated yesterday that he would open every accounting book that he has in order to prove to a Rugby Football Union (RFU) enquiry that there was no slush fund set up to persude Rotherham RUC not to accedt promotion into the Premiership last season [= end of the 2001-2 season]. An article in May 2002 stated that Rotherham’s promotion to the Premiership had been rejected at the last minute due to inadequate paperwork.
A week earlier, on 12 December 2002, the Telegraph had broken the story of how Worcester Rugby Union Club owner Cecil Duckworth had told the RFU how a special slush fund was set up to bribe Rotherham RUC into failing to meet the criteria for being promoted to the top flight the next season. In the event, they failed to be promoted on the grounds that they had ‘failed to provide the required documentation relating to ground-sharing with Rotherham United Football Club’.
The Telegraph reported that Duckworth had met RFU officials at Twickenham to air his complaint. A three-man RFU delegation, Chief Executive Francis Baron, Chairman Graeme Cattermole and Disciplinary Officer Robert Horner were charged with pusuing an investigation into the alleged scandal. They later appointed an independent inquiry headed by Anthony Arlidge, QC, to investigate the whole matter.
Duckworth’s allegation was that influential owners of several Premiership clubs considered a payment of £68,000 per club to encourage Rotherham not to accept promotion. Brian Kennedy was named by Duckworth as one of the alleged co-conspirators.
The background to this is that the 12 Premiership clubs had for years believed to have conspired to keep themselves as an ‘exclusive’ club of the top dozen clubs. The ‘relegation issue’ was a source of controversy for years, with concerns that the 12-strong Premiership was keeping out other clubs leading to an official Office of Fair Trading investigation being started in September 2001.
In the event (see below), Rotherham also officially received an amount varioulsy said to be £740,000 or £720,000 as a ‘parachute payment’ designed to compensate for their failure to be promoted.
KENNEDY REACTS ANGRILY
Kennedy reacted swiftly and angrily: “When someone makes such a high-profile accusation as this, on allegations that are unfounded, with evidence that is flawed, we have to go public in response. I want my part in this inquiry to be clear, overt and fair. If we turn our back on it, then the implication will be that there is something to hide. The truth is that there is nothing to hide. Come and see my books. These allegations are wrong. I for one will not be sneaky and underhand when it comes to giving my evidence. There are some daft notions flying about. One paper suggested yesterday that owners like me are in it for the money to be made. How ridiculous! If I'd invested in rugby in order to make money, then I would seriously question my commercial judgement. I came in to stop Sale from disappearing off the map, to try and give the North-West some top-class sport. That's all. All I'm interested in is driving this business towards break-even. I'll tell you now, if I ever did make a profit at Sale then I'd give it all to charity”.
SECRET MEETINGS
But The Times unearthed evidence of secret meetings. They reported that:
“Allegations that Premiership rugby union clubs considered bribing Rotherham not to take up their promotion place last season were given fresh impetus yesterday. The independent inquiry set up by the RFU has received information claiming that three leading club figures held a secret meeting at a Jersey bank last August, only a fortnight before the new season began. According to the information, the individuals, two from Premiership sides and one from a First Division club, met at a bank in St Helier on 16 August 2002. When contacted by The Times yesterday, one of the men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied ever having been to the Channel Islands. The other two did not return calls”.
The Times repot continued:
“If the meeting is substantiated, what they discussed could be of great importance to the inquiry investigating claims that Rotherham were to be paid £750,000 to turn down promotion last season, after winning the National League First Division title. The inquiry team has also been notified of details of a meeting allegedly held between two prominent rugby personalities on a yacht off Monte Carlo last May. The head of the inquiry team, Anthony Arlidge Q.C., had also been told of an England international from a Premiership club, involved in last season’s relegation battle, who claimed that he knew as early as last February that no club would go down because ‘a “deal had been struck’.
The report went on: “Mike Yarlett, the Chief Executive of Rotherham RUC, denied receiving any payments, described the allegations as ‘mischief making’, but then refused to assist the enquiry in any way”.
The £750,000 was alleged to be have been paid to Rotherham in addition to the ‘parachute payment’ to which the club was entitled. Half the £750,000 would, it is alleged, have come from central Premier Rugby funds and the other half from the 12 clubs themselves, who would each contribute £31,250.
The Times continued: “According to information passed to The Times, this was agreed at a meeting at the Weston Manor Hotel, near Oxford, in October 2001 and rubber-stamped on 6 April last year. The allegations surrounding last season surfaced after claims were made about a similar payment this year for Rotherham, who are again favourites for promotion. This was allegedly discussed at a meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, near Heathrow, on Monday, December 2”.
RUGBY CHAIRMEN DISCIPLINED
Anthony Arlidge Q.C. in his final report, made adverse comments on four individuals in particular: Premier Rugby Ltd (PRL) chairman Charles Jillings, Gloucester Rugby Union Club owner Tom Walkinshaw, Northampton Rugby Union Club owner Keith Barwell, and Rotherham chairman Mike Yarlett.
Warning letters about their conduct in the ‘Rotherhamgate’ affair sent to Walkinshaw and Jillings “indicated the RFU's displeasure in the way, as successive chairmen of PRL they either encouraged or allowed discussions about improper payments to Rotherham RUFC”.
Mike Yarlett of Rotherham RFC was rebuked for “his willingness to manipulate the facts to fit a required situation in relation to the date of signing a lease in relation to the use of Millmoor (Rotherham United FC Ground)”.
Worcester Rugby Union Club chairman Cecil Duckworth was also reprimanded, for ‘airing dirty laundry in public rather than pursuing a complaint through official Rugby Football Union channels’.
Whistle-blowers are rarely popular.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by Guest 23.07.10 22:00
So Does Kennedy also think all those people who have written all over the internet about his alledged dodgy dealings in the double glazing business are also wrong, from what they say companies were set up and then closed down owing people money - it seems like an awful lot of people are pointing the finger at Kennedy. Now if a genuine fund was set up for Madeleine anyone with any semblence of a brain in their head would not want Kennedy anywhere near any fund and would not want him to have any dealings whatsoever with a genuine cause when he has been tainted not once, not even twice, but numerous times, so are all these other people lying and Kennedy telling the truth! How does Kennedy explain that an awful lot of people are pointing the finger at him in relation to alledged dodgy financial dealings!
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by Tony Bennett 23.07.10 22:24
I wish I could ask Brian Kennedy some Freedom of Information Act questions!Cherry wrote:So Does Kennedy also think all those people who have written all over the internet about his alledged dodgy dealings in the double glazing business are also wrong, from what they say companies were set up and then closed down owing people money - it seems like an awful lot of people are pointing the finger at Kennedy. Now if a genuine fund was set up for Madeleine anyone with any semblence of a brain in their head would not want Kennedy anywhere near any fund and would not want him to have any dealings whatsoever with a genuine cause when he has been tainted not once, not even twice, but numerous times, so are all these other people lying and Kennedy telling the truth! How does Kennedy explain that an awful lot of people are pointing the finger at him in relation to alledged dodgy financial dealings!
These would be on my list:
1. When did you first meet Dr Gerald McCann?
2. When did you first agree to take charge of the McCanns' private investigation activities?
3. When did you decide to appoint Metodo 3?
4. Who did you meet from Metodo 3 before deciding to appoint them?
5. What other private detective agencies did you consider before appointing Metodo 3?
6. When did you buy the house in Knutsford where you've based your private investigation activities for the past 3 years?
7. How much did it cost?
8. Did you know about the controversial record of Metodo 3 before you appointed them?
9. What was your reaction when Francisco Marco, boss of Metodo 3, told you he was closing in Madeleine's kidnappers and she would be home by Christmas?
10. What did you discuss with your lawyer Edward Smethurst, Robert Murat, his lawyer Francisco Pagarete and Murat's mother at the Eveleighs house on 13 November 2007?
11. Which witnesses did you intimidate (according to Mark Hollingsworth in the Evening Standard, August 2009) into not talking to the police?
12. Under what circumstances did you meet and talks to (a) Gail Cooper and (b) Paul Gordon about 'George Harrison man'?
13. How much did you pay Melissa Little for artists' sketches of 'bundleman' and 'George Harrison man?'
14. What did you say to Martin Smith?
15. How many other potential witnesses did you personally talk to?
16. Was that you photographed at the back in the church in Praia da Luz (it really does look like you)?
17. How come you appointed hard-drinking con-man Kevin Halligen?
18. Were you conned by him? Or not conned by him?
19. If he conned you and the McCanns out of 300 grand, why aren't you suing him?
20. When and under what circumstances did you first meet Dave Edgar?
21. When and under what circumstances did you first meet Arthur Cowley?
22. Did you really really believe Edgar when he said he was convinced Madeleine was being held in a prison lair in the lawless hills around Praia da Luz?
23. What was your role in comnection with the spate of false 'sightings' of Madeleine in Morocco?
24. Did you really really believe Edgar when he said that the Australian-speaking Victoria Beckham-lookalike was 'a strong lead'?
25. Have you ever met Marcos Aragao Corriea?
26. Exactly how much did Metodo 3 pay for Marcos Aragao Correia's services?
27. When were you told that Correia was going to search the Arade Dam?
28. How much money have you personally paid towards the private investigations, or towards the McCanns' legal fees?
29. Who paid Metodo 3? - you, or the Find Madeleine Fund?
30. Who paid Kevin Halligen a.k.a. Richard Halligan? - you, or the Find Madeleine Fund?
Well that's all I have for now.
Anyone else got any questions for Mr Double Glazing?
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by kangdang 24.07.10 0:07
Scotland's finest -
Professor Stewart Hillis, an eminent authority, with an OBE for his work in medicine and sport. Hillis describes his career as a life of privilege, he is an honorary senior research fellow at Glasgow University, continues to work at the Western Infirmary, has an honorary position at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank and has written respected papers on various aspects of medicine One of his co-authors on some of them was a fellow cardiologist Gerry McCann. Hillis and McCann met through sports medicine work years before Madeleine disappeared in 2007. Hillis called in a favour and telephoned Ferguson. A high-profile appeal for information on Madeleine was staged at a Manchester United game and Cristiano Ronaldo recorded a message to be broadcast in Portugal, where she went missing.
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Professor Stewart Hillis, an eminent authority, with an OBE for his work in medicine and sport. Hillis describes his career as a life of privilege, he is an honorary senior research fellow at Glasgow University, continues to work at the Western Infirmary, has an honorary position at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank and has written respected papers on various aspects of medicine One of his co-authors on some of them was a fellow cardiologist Gerry McCann. Hillis and McCann met through sports medicine work years before Madeleine disappeared in 2007. Hillis called in a favour and telephoned Ferguson. A high-profile appeal for information on Madeleine was staged at a Manchester United game and Cristiano Ronaldo recorded a message to be broadcast in Portugal, where she went missing.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by kangdang 24.07.10 0:43
ate: Friday, 23 July, 2010, 23:32
Posted by: truthurts on July 23, 2010 4:11 PM
One of the major investors in the forensic science services who did the analysis of the DNA and other evidence in the Madeleine investigation is a company called 3i PLC/group,a private equity company behind Brian Kennedy (oakley International who Halligen worked for)& CRG who the McCanns brought in from the start.sarah Hogg(Baroness)is the guardian appointed in this case just happens to be the chairman of the 3i group.If true,how easy it would be to manipulate the evidence,where's the likes of Brunt when these sort ofr things need investigating,oh yes Brunty is one of the McCanns sycophants isn't he.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by Tony Bennett 24.07.10 0:50
But could John Lowe be leant on?kangdang wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]ate: Friday, 23 July, 2010, 23:32
Posted by: truthurts on July 23, 2010 4:11 PM
One of the major investors in the forensic science services who did the analysis of the DNA and other evidence in the Madeleine investigation is a company called 3i PLC/group,a private equity company behind Brian Kennedy (oakley International who Halligen worked for)& CRG who the McCanns brought in from the start.sarah Hogg(Baroness)is the guardian appointed in this case just happens to be the chairman of the 3i group.If true,how easy it would be to manipulate the evidence,where's the likes of Brunt when these sort ofr things need investigating,oh yes Brunty is one of the McCanns sycophants isn't he.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by aiyoyo 24.07.10 3:53
I am not well up on FOI and who it can apply to?
So I am thinking why can't people seek info under FOI on Brian Kennedy?
Is it because it's a private company and not governmental body?
Did you ever liaise with governmental department over the case?
So I am thinking why can't people seek info under FOI on Brian Kennedy?
Is it because it's a private company and not governmental body?
Did you ever liaise with governmental department over the case?
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by pennylane 24.07.10 8:07
Tony Bennett wrote:I wish I could ask Brian Kennedy some Freedom of Information Act questions!Cherry wrote:So Does Kennedy also think all those people who have written all over the internet about his alledged dodgy dealings in the double glazing business are also wrong, from what they say companies were set up and then closed down owing people money - it seems like an awful lot of people are pointing the finger at Kennedy. Now if a genuine fund was set up for Madeleine anyone with any semblence of a brain in their head would not want Kennedy anywhere near any fund and would not want him to have any dealings whatsoever with a genuine cause when he has been tainted not once, not even twice, but numerous times, so are all these other people lying and Kennedy telling the truth! How does Kennedy explain that an awful lot of people are pointing the finger at him in relation to alledged dodgy financial dealings!
These would be on my list:
1. When did you first meet Dr Gerald McCann?
2. When did you first agree to take charge of the McCanns' private investigation activities?
3. When did you decide to appoint Metodo 3?
4. Who did you meet from Metodo 3 before deciding to appoint them?
5. What other private detective agencies did you consider before appointing Metodo 3?
6. When did you buy the house in Knutsford where you've based your private investigation activities for the past 3 years?
7. How much did it cost?
8. Did you know about the controversial record of Metodo 3 before you appointed them?
9. What was your reaction when Francisco Marco, boss of Metodo 3, told you he was closing in Madeleine's kidnappers and she would be home by Christmas?
10. What did you discuss with your lawyer Edward Smethurst, Robert Murat, his lawyer Francisco Pagarete and Murat's mother at the Eveleighs house on 13 November 2007?
11. Which witnesses did you intimidate (according to Mark Hollingsworth in the Evening Standard, August 2009) into not talking to the police?
12. Under what circumstances did you meet and talks to (a) Gail Cooper and (b) Paul Gordon about 'George Harrison man'?
13. How much did you pay Melissa Little for artists' sketches of 'bundleman' and 'George Harrison man?'
14. What did you say to Martin Smith?
15. How many other potential witnesses did you personally talk to?
16. Was that you photographed at the back in the church in Praia da Luz (it really does look like you)?
17. How come you appointed hard-drinking con-man Kevin Halligen?
18. Were you conned by him? Or not conned by him?
19. If he conned you and the McCanns out of 300 grand, why aren't you suing him?
20. When and under what circumstances did you first meet Dave Edgar?
21. When and under what circumstances did you first meet Arthur Cowley?
22. Did you really really believe Edgar when he said he was convinced Madeleine was being held in a prison lair in the lawless hills around Praia da Luz?
23. What was your role in comnection with the spate of false 'sightings' of Madeleine in Morocco?
24. Did you really really believe Edgar when he said that the Australian-speaking Victoria Beckham-lookalike was 'a strong lead'?
25. Have you ever met Marcos Aragao Corriea?
26. Exactly how much did Metodo 3 pay for Marcos Aragao Correia's services?
27. When were you told that Correia was going to search the Arade Dam?
28. How much money have you personally paid towards the private investigations, or towards the McCanns' legal fees?
29. Who paid Metodo 3? - you, or the Find Madeleine Fund?
30. Who paid Kevin Halligen a.k.a. Richard Halligan? - you, or the Find Madeleine Fund?
Well that's all I have for now.
Anyone else got any questions for Mr Double Glazing?
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Alas the Freedom of Information Act is a complete farce
as is the abduction of Madeleine Beth McCann!
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by sharonl 01.08.10 11:09
Background information - Kennedy`s links to FSS according to Blackwatch
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Kennedy seeking banks help.
by aiyoyo 12.08.10 10:44
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I've posted this elsewhere, then thought it's more appropriate here under BK thread.
I've posted this elsewhere, then thought it's more appropriate here under BK thread.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
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I've posted this elsewhere, then thought it's more appropriate here under BK thread.
Oh dear, a debt pile of more than £30 million pounds!
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by sharonl 24.02.11 23:47
24 February 2011
Flintshire, BTW is where Arthur Cowleys, one man band, private investigation company, set up on June 10 2009 is registered. But, where is Treetops, Pant Y Gof - anyone know? Who owns the property?
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Millionaire's £60,000 for north Wales homeless charity
The money will be used to offer training and education to the homeless Continue reading the main story
A millionaire businessman has given £60,000 to a north Wales charity supporting homeless families.
Brian Kennedy, owner of Premiership Rugby Union team Sale Sharks, made the donation to Flintshire-based charity Save the Family.
He previously donated money to the fund for Madeleine McCann, the British girl who went missing in Portugal.
Save the Family will use the donation to offer training to homeless families in a bid to get them into work.
Helen Booth, of Save the Family, said: "We want to give families the skills they need to rejoin their communities as fully contributing members of society."
Mr Kennedy, who is behind businesses such as Everest and Weatherseal, launched a charitable trust three years ago to encourage the more affluent to help those who are less well off.
Linda Miles, director of the Brian Kennedy Trust, said: "Brian wanted to be involved in a project that was about engaging with those in need but also encouraging people to help themselves.
"Sometimes people hand over money to charities without really understanding the emotions that are involved in the charity's work. Brian was really impressed with Save the Family."
Continue reading the main story
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We are delighted Mr Kennedy saw the potential”
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Helen Booth
Save the Children
Save the Family's launched its training arm the Miracle Company at the end of 2010 to create job opportunities in north east Wales and Cheshire.
Parents are trained in carpentry and furniture repairs and food production skills and the company has a production centre at Northop in Flintshire and retail outlets in Mold and Chester.
The company makes and refurbishes furniture donated by the public and sells the items through its charity shops.
It also sells a range of jams, chutneys and preserves and chocolates.
The charity want to create a new food hygiene and preparation training centre inside the former disused Flint Chapel.
Flintshire, BTW is where Arthur Cowleys, one man band, private investigation company, set up on June 10 2009 is registered. But, where is Treetops, Pant Y Gof - anyone know? Who owns the property?
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Millionaire's £60,000 for north Wales homeless charity
The money will be used to offer training and education to the homeless Continue reading the main story
A millionaire businessman has given £60,000 to a north Wales charity supporting homeless families.
Brian Kennedy, owner of Premiership Rugby Union team Sale Sharks, made the donation to Flintshire-based charity Save the Family.
He previously donated money to the fund for Madeleine McCann, the British girl who went missing in Portugal.
Save the Family will use the donation to offer training to homeless families in a bid to get them into work.
Helen Booth, of Save the Family, said: "We want to give families the skills they need to rejoin their communities as fully contributing members of society."
Mr Kennedy, who is behind businesses such as Everest and Weatherseal, launched a charitable trust three years ago to encourage the more affluent to help those who are less well off.
Linda Miles, director of the Brian Kennedy Trust, said: "Brian wanted to be involved in a project that was about engaging with those in need but also encouraging people to help themselves.
"Sometimes people hand over money to charities without really understanding the emotions that are involved in the charity's work. Brian was really impressed with Save the Family."
Continue reading the main story
“
Start Quote
We are delighted Mr Kennedy saw the potential”
End Quote
Helen Booth
Save the Children
Save the Family's launched its training arm the Miracle Company at the end of 2010 to create job opportunities in north east Wales and Cheshire.
Parents are trained in carpentry and furniture repairs and food production skills and the company has a production centre at Northop in Flintshire and retail outlets in Mold and Chester.
The company makes and refurbishes furniture donated by the public and sells the items through its charity shops.
It also sells a range of jams, chutneys and preserves and chocolates.
The charity want to create a new food hygiene and preparation training centre inside the former disused Flint Chapel.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by littlepixie 25.02.11 0:14
Looks like Save the Family does good work but I have honestly never heard of them. Pant -Y - Gof middle of nowhere I think. There is a Flintshire Refurb in Flint run by the Council that refurbishes furniture and sells it.
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Re: Brian Kennedy: Background information
by littlepixie 25.02.11 0:28
Mr Cowley did get planning permission on 8/6/2004 to have a new conservatory built at Treetops, so I presume he owns it. Wonder which firm erected it [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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