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The Madeleine Foundation.

Buy the Madeleine Foundation’s latest book while you can!

Our first book on Madeleine McCann: “What Really Happened to Madeleine McCann? 60 Reasons which suggest she was not abducted” was effectively banned by the McCanns as the result of a High Court Order in November 2009.

Our second book on the case: “The Madeleine McCann Case Files: Volume 1” was published in February 2010. In its 108 pages, we include 12 of the most important witness and expert statements made to the original Portuguese Police investigation. These were made public by the police in 2008 and the McCanns have never claimed that these statements libelled them. But now they have brought proceedings to try to imprison our Secretary, Tony Bennett, for libelling the McCanns, and have indicated that they want our book banned. The trial of Tony will probably take place in April, and our second book might then also be banned.

You can buy a copy of it now (£4 inc. postage) by clicking on this link:

• New petition for justice for Madeleine
• Please sign now by clicking on the image on the right >>>>
• The petition calls on the British government to hold a full and open public enquiry, with the power to summon witnesses, into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
• The Madeleine Foundation wrote to Prime Minister, David Cameron calling for a full public enquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann - our letter was delivered by hand to No.10 Downing street on October 2nd 2010

Statement from the committee of the Madeleine Foundation 10th January 2012

Bogus e-mails and press releases

It has come to our attention that a over the past few days a number of press releases have been published in the name of the Madeleine Foundation or in the name of our secretary, Tony Bennett. There also appears to a number of fake e-mails in circulation.

We would like to inform all our members and supporters that these press releases and e-mails come, not from the Madeleine Foundation, but from McCann supporters who prefer to be playing games rather than assist the alleged search for Madeleine.

Any press release by the Madeleine Foundation will be displayed in a prominent position on the home page of the Madeleine Foundation website before being published elsewhere. E-mails from the Madeleine Foundation will be sent only from Tony Bennett or Sharon Lawrence using their personal e-mail addresses. Should you receive any correspondence allegedly from the Madeleine Foundation that you are unsure of, please carefully check the address of the sender, and if in doubt please contact the committee of the Madeleine Foundation at themadeleinefoundation@gmail.com

The committee of the Madeleine Foundation

What is the reason for anti-Goncalo Amaral lawyer Marcos Correia’s outburst on New Years Day, 2012?

• New book! Our new book ‘The Madeleine McCann Case Files: Volume 1’ is now on sale. Click on our  ‘Publications’ page to order. The Madeleine McCann Case Files Vol.1

The Madeleine Foundation was set up in January 2008 with the following aims:

a)     to change the law in whatever way is needed in order to send out a clear message to all parents that leaving young children on their own is never acceptable, and to strive for the adoption of a new law with its key provisions ensuring that parents “Never leave young children on their own”

b)     to pursue - in conjunction with others - the truth about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on 3 May 2007

c)  to investigate the facts behind the extent of British government

           involvement in this case and the reasons for it

d)     to ensure that the media, in particular the British media, report this case accurately and give due weight to all viewpoints on Madeleine’s disappearance

e)     to generally promote the welfare of children, in particular by ensuring that parents are aware of the psychological needs of their children and ensuring that the relevant authorities take appropriate action to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

If you visit our ‘Newsletter’ page and view our November 2009 newsletter to members, there you’ll see a record of some of the many things we accomplished in 2008 and 2009.

We called our organisation ‘The Madeleine Foundation’ because, whatever really happened to Madeleine McCann, there can be no doubt that Madeleine suffered. We need to find out the whole truth about what really happened to her, so that we can learn the lessons from how she disappeared. We want the name Madeleine to be associated with improvements in the way we care for children. The McCanns admitted to leaving three young children all aged under four on their own six evenings in a row whilst they were out dining with friends at  a restaurant over a minute’s walk away. They say they were checking every half- an-hour. But the N.S.P.C.C. and all other child welfare organisations say that young children should never be left on their own, whatever the circumstances, neither during the day nor during the night.

That’s why we call for a new law, which we’ve called ‘Madeleine’s Law’, to make it a criminal offence to leave children under 12 on their own without reasonable excuse. This is how we summarise Madeleine’s Law: NEVER LEAVE YOUNG CHILDREN ON THEIR OWN. Please see our separate page titled ‘Madeleine’s law’.

We have recently had to revise our activities  in the light of letters sent to our Secretary Tony Bennett, and to our former Chairman, by Carter-Ruck, libel lawyers for Dr Gerald and Dr Kate McCann, on 27 August 2009. These letters, from a firm who boast that they are ‘the most feared libel lawyers in the country’, required them to:

a) permanently suspend our previous website at:

 www.madeleinefoundation.org

b) cease publishing, selling and distributing our book: “What Really Happened to Madeleine McCann? - 60 Reasons Which Suggest she was not Abducted”

c) cease publishing and distributing our leaflet: “What Really Happened to Madeleine McCann: 10 Key Reasons Which Suggest she was not Abducted”, and

d)  desist from repeating libellous allegations against the McCanns.

The legal advice we have received is that there is no bar on anyone raising reasonable questions about, for example, evidence that has been publicly released by the Portuguese police and judicial authorities. Anyone is entitled for example to analyse unexplained contradictions or gaps in the evidence. Asking questions is allowed, so is fair analysis of the evidence; pointing the finger is another matter and we will not do that.

Where we do raise questions and the McCanns or their advises have commented publicly on those matters, we shall endeavour to reproduce faithfully what they have to say on those questions.

The fact is that the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remains a mystery. In our Constitution we are committed to “pursuing, in conjunction with others, the truth about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on 3 May 2007”. That we will continue to do, but in a way in which we do not make libellous accusations against the McCanns..

On our site you’ll find articles about many aspects surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. You’ll also find details of our publications, including our new 108-page book: ‘The Madeleine McCann case Files: Volume 1’, which publishes many of the crucial witness statements made during the investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance.

We invite anyone who has any knowledge that might help in any way to solve the mystery of why Madeleine McCann was reported missing on 3 May 2007 to contact us with their information. If you wish your information to be treated in strict confidence, it will be.

Please note that this is the only website of the Madeleine Foundation. Our former website at www.madeleinefoundation.org is now under the control of other people wholly unconnected with us.

From the Committee of The Madeleine Foundation - 10 November 2009, and updated on 10 February 2009

Hollie Demands Justice

Supporting Goncalo Amaral

The Madeleine Foundation conference June 2010