McCanns used fund to pay mortgage

[tedebear]

Chappers, I am sure people thought it would not be used to pay for their
£ 350000 mortgage in a huge house whilst they earn £ 120000 pa between them, if they did miss 2 payments tou would think they would have savings or a contigency plan to pay these or negotiate something with the lender rathe than dip into the fund, a huge PR disaster at best and they should refund the money TODAY from their personal funds if I were them , but it does not suprise me of this couple

I really really hope you eat your words one day mate...

Sounds like you speak of them as if you know them personally? (edited to add: sorry Dave didn't see your post asking the same thing!)

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Dave, this is a huge PR disaster, I have found them frankly a very odd couple and if it were an Essex Single Mum chav she would have been hung put to dry

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I really really hope you eat your words one day mate...

Sounds like you speak of them as if you know them personally? (edited to add: sorry Dave didn't see your post asking the same thing!)

why make things personal, I am making comments I feel and no one can seriously defend them taking the mortgage payments from the fund , why do you want me to eat my words one day, whats the problem

 

[Rusthall Seagull]

Dave

The Daily Express has been championing them as some sort of modern day hero's for 6 months and they did the lead today about the fund paying their mortgage, it looks like even they are getting fed up with these odious people , ps , please respond to my pm asap

this is pretty personal though isn't it ? you make yourself look a fool with these kind of comments

 

[tedebear]

why make things personal, I am making comments I feel and no one can seriously defend them taking the mortgage payments from the fund , why do you want me to eat my words one day, whats the problem

I wasn't making it personal, I was simply saying I really hope you are proven wrong about these people, and that Maddie is found and its proven that she was abducted. Especially as you've probably formed your opinion about them from the press etc.

Kind of sad don't you think that people have hung drawn and quartered them based on a pathetic investigation in Portugal, the fact that they have been under more scrutiny than anyone I can recently think of and it just seems that (to me) thats unfair to them without knowing the full story.

I haven't a clue how I would behave if someone dared to take my son. I find it galling that they have had to grieve under such intense scrutiny, and I'm sure everyone would behave differently.

Everyy little decision they have made will be the right decision for some and the wrong decision by someone else, thats life and what makes us interesting people. Doesn't mean they are shifty or murders.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I apologise for my harsh comments but something is not right here, they have appeared to almost enjoy the media circus but time will tell and the truth will out but I do think it wrong to pay their mortgage from the fund

 

[Tricky Dicky]

As a complete aside, I was talking to my mum at the weekend and happened to get onto this subject. They reminded me that they had taken my sister and her family to Praia Da Luz 10 years ago (same appartment block as Maddie) when my niece was 2. Apparently a local woman went up to my sister and told her to keep an eye on my niece as "the gypsies take little blond girls around here"

Just thought I'd share that snippet

 

[tedebear]

I apologise for my harsh comments but something is not right here, they have appeared to almost enjoy the media circus but time will tell and the truth will out but I do think it wrong to pay their mortgage from the fund

Ah well, I've not ever seen them enjoying it so I guess I've got a completely different perspective. But it does annoy me to see people jumping to such strong conclusions about them when really we know nothing.

I'm personally not sure about the mortgage bit, I guess if the fund was set up to purely find Madeline then yes its wrong, but they need a home to live in and for Madeline to come home to so in that regard if its a last chance situation then IMO its ok.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I think the comment " people like that" did it..

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I will withdraw for this and future McCann threads as its highly emotive and just keep my thoughts to myself about this affair

 

[beorhthelm]

If that were true then why are the McCanns still official suspects?

what isnt true, that the current line of investigation is an abduction or that the previous lead investigater has a record of harrasment in similar cases? Or that noone knows what happened? Do you know? i cant comment on the Portugese legal system and their "official suspects" status, because im not a portugese lawyer, but that other fella was an official suspect until the time ran out.
and what put downs? it was as much a comment on the whole sorry saga, that it changes daily, with details either missed or blown out of proportion depending on which paper/wesbite you see an article on, which day it is and what other news is around to fill the space.

 

[maffew]

God knows what their mortgage payments are but to use the fund for this seems to me to be wrong.

If I'd given I'd expect that money to be used for lawyers, maybe private detectives or the like.

To make mortgage payments on their house? No f***ing way

Each to their own though

 

[NMH]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7068760.stm


Are these two the jammyest people in England ?

they get away with murder and now their sympathisers are buying their house

I blame Thatcher !!!

Yeah, now they can go and BUY a new child, ffs.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Yeah, now they can go and BUY a new child, ffs.

Madonna did

 

[Clapham Old Mug]

If the fund was raised to finance the continued search for the girl, and if the parents have given up their jobs for the last six months to help co-ordinate the search, then paying their mortgage out of it doesn't seem unreasonable to me...

 

[Yorkie]

I wasn't making it personal, I was simply saying I really hope you are proven wrong about these people, and that Maddie is found and its proven that she was abducted. Especially as you've probably formed your opinion about them from the press etc.

Kind of sad don't you think that people have hung drawn and quartered them based on a pathetic investigation in Portugal, the fact that they have been under more scrutiny than anyone I can recently think of and it just seems that (to me) thats unfair to them without knowing the full story.

I haven't a clue how I would behave if someone dared to take my son. I find it galling that they have had to grieve under such intense scrutiny, and I'm sure everyone would behave differently.

Everyy little decision they have made will be the right decision for some and the wrong decision by someone else, thats life and what makes us interesting people. Doesn't mean they are shifty or murders.

Excellent post tedebear.

 

[NMH]

Madonna did

She couldn't even afford a white blonde one though

 

[Robot Chicken]

I have no problem at all with the money going towards their mortgage. They've been off work since May and as can be seen below the fund money isn't going towards the legal bills. You want to see the McCanns made homeless?

Billionaire Richard Branson is to donate 100,000 pounds to create a fund to help the parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann pay their legal bills, his spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Well-wishers have already donated more than a million pounds to a fund to help find the girl. However, the trust's directors decided last week that the money should not be used to pay the couple's legal bills.

Other points:

A fighting fund has been launched to help cover escalating costs in the search for missing Madeleine McCann.

It was also announced that any money raised not needed for the search for Madeleine would be used to help find missing children in the UK, Portugal and elsewhere.

To secure the safe return to her family of Madeleine McCann who was abducted in Praia da Luz, Portugal on Thursday 3rd May 2007;
To procure that Madeleine’s abduction is thoroughly investigated and that her abductors, as well as those who played or play any part in assisting them, are identified and brought to justice; and
To provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine’s family.

The Fund is supporting the McCann family during their search for Madeleine and in ensuring a high profile of Madeleine’s abduction is maintained. As at the end of July 2007, only a small proportion of the money raised has been spent. This has been on awareness raising items e.g. wristbands, website, family expenses and professional fees, including concerning international law on child abduction and the costs of setting up the Fund. The directors are considering the future strategy of the Fund to ensure effective use of funds

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

As NHS employees, they're entitled to 6 months full pay and 6 months half-pay.

As the child has been missing for 6 months, they must now be in half pay territory and thus, they are dipping into the fighting fund.

Not saying it's right, not saying it's wrong, it's just a nice bit of speculation, whiich we're all rather splendid at

 

[Frutos]

I hope she's found, don't get me wrong, but what exactly makes her disappearance that much more newsworthy than any of the other thousands of disappearances (of both children and adults) that happen in this country and around the world every day, week, month and year?

You don't see some of them mentioned in the news at all, much less 6 months after the fact, so what makes her case special (besides the parental negligence that caused it)?