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The McCanns did not want to use their meeting with the
press last Wednesday to talk about Money. But spokesman
Clarence Mitchell thinks that “sooner or later, it will
be necessary to return to raising money” for the Fund
created in 2008 to finance the search for Maddie.
According to a report by D&B – a financial analysis
company – Madeleine’s fund, Leaving No Stone Unturned,
would today have a liquid capital of just 125 thousand
pounds. The Fund had a million pounds, but there is less
money entering with each year that passes and in 2011
general costs totalled almost 27 thousand pounds.
Mitchell states that the “donations from private
individuals are less each time” and that today the Fund
survives from the Money the couple and their friends
received as compensation from libel cases against
newspapers. Included in this amount are the royalties
from the book written by Kate McCann, which the parent’s
spokesman guarantees “has sold quite well”.
In order to keep the Money entering the Fund’s coffers,
Kate will launch, next Thursday, a new version of the
book – this time in Paperback format – with an
additional chapter, to update information.
Five years alter Maddie’s disappearance from the
Algarve, Clarence Mitchell, the former Communications
adviser to 10 Downing Street and ex – BBC journalist,
continues to work for the McCanns “full-time, but with
the agreement of the communications company” of which he
is nowadays an employee.
Gerry continues to work as a cardiologist, at Leicester
Hospital, where he returned in 2008. But Kate has never
returned to practice medicine. Her days, explains
Clarence Mitchell, are dedicated to “looking after the
twins and working on the campaign to find Madeleine”.
Part of Maddie’s mother agenda includes work with
organisations dedicated to finding missing children and
“meetings with authorities”.
The McCanns have also returned several times to
Portugal. Their last visit was on 10th April, when Gerry
and Kate went to Praia da Luz. As concerns what they did
there, Mitchell does not want to reveal any details.
When they passed through Lisbon, the couple had
breakfast with Rogério Alves, to find out about the
progress of the legal cases that continue to proceed in
the Portuguese Justice system.
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