OUR BOOK:
“What really happened to Madeleine McCann? - 60 Reasons which suggest she was not abducted” (60pp)
For information about our new book, titled: “The Madeleine
McCann Case Files: Volume 1”, published February 2010, please see below.
On 7 December 2008, The Madeleine Foundation produced a 60-page booklet on the Madeleine McCann case: “What really happened to Madeleine McCann? - 60 Reasons which suggest she was not abducted”. It was written by our Secretary, Tony Bennett, who had spent over a year researching the subject.
It sold thousands of copies, and also formed the basis for an article on our former website titled: “30 Key Reasons which suggest that Madeleine McCann was not abducted”. In addition, tens of thousands of copies of a four-page A5 leaflet titled: “10 Key Reasons which suggest that Madeleine McCann was not abducted”, which summarised the main points of our ’60 Reasons’ book, were published and distributed.
Prior to publication, a draft of the contents of the book was sent to the McCanns themselves, to their chief public relations officer, Clarence Mitchell, and to three of the various sets of lawyers hired by the McCanns, including Carter-Ruck, the McCanns’ libel lawyers, who self-proclaim themselves on their website as ‘the nation’s most feared libel lawyers’.
However, due to the threat of expensive litigation by Dr Gerald and Dr Kate McCann, we are no longer able to sell or distribute the ‘60 Reasons’ book.
On 27 August 2009, after the book had been selling for nearly 9 months, Carter-Ruck, wrote to Tony Bennett claiming that the book libelled the McCanns and must be withdrawn from sale.
On 2 October 2009, Tony received legal advice from Kirwans, a noted firm of Solicitors in Liverpool, that if even one line in ‘60 Reasons’ could be deemed by the High Court as ‘libellous’, he faced personal financial ruin. The lawyers advised that because of the massive costs that could be awarded against Tony, because Carter-Ruck’s lawyers charged hundreds of pounds an hour (plus VAT) for their services, and he would be potentially liable for them as well as any award of damages, he could lose all his savings and half of his matrimonial home.
On 25 November Tony agreed terms with Carter-Ruck whereby the McCanns would not claim any costs against him on condition that he agreed to no longer sell nor distribute any further copies of the booklet.
For those reasons, then, we regret that that booklet is no longer available from us.
NEW BOOK
However, we are pleased to inform you that, we have recently published another, longer, book on the Madeleine McCann Case.
Titled “The Madeleine McCann Case Files: Volume 1”, and running to 108 pages, it reproduces twelve of the key documents in the case which the Portuguese Police have made public. These include the interim report by the Portuguese Police in September 2008, published less than a month before the detective leading the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, Goncalo Amaral, was removed from the investigation, and the final report of the Portuguese Judicial Authorities.
Also included are the various statements of Martin Grime, the world-renowned police dog-trainer who brought Eddie the cadaver dog, who specialises in scenting the presence of human corpses and bloodhound Keela to Praia da Luz, and took them to the McCanns’ apartment and the McCanns’ hired Renault Scenic car.
Lengthy extracts from the witness statements of Jane Tanner, the McCanns’ friend who claimed to have seen an abductor walking away from the McCanns’ apartment at around 9.15pm on Thursday 3 May, the day Madeleine was reported missing, are also included.
The purpose of our new book is to place this material in the hands of as many British people as possible. They are curious to know what is in these files. Much of what is in them is not known by them as the British media have felt unable to discuss the evidence in the case since they were effectively ‘gagged’ as a result of successful libel actions by the McCanns, Robert Murat, his wife and his friend Sergei Malinka, and the friends of the McCanns, known as the ‘Tapas 7’.
The booklet costs £3.00, or £4.00 including postage.
[Madeleine Foundation - Our Book Page - created 5 February 2010]
