Transcript
By Nigel
Moore
Dominic Heale: Now though, the parents
of the missing Leicestershire girl Madeleine McCann have
started legal action. It's against a man who they claim
has breached an order not to publish allegations linking
them with her disappearance.
Anne Davies: Tony Bennett, who set up
the Madeleine Foundation, has appeared at the High Court
in London, where he denies a contempt of court
application which was made by the McCanns. Mike
O'Sullivan reports.
Mike O'Sullivan: (voice over) The man
who wrote to the Prime Minister alleging that the
McCanns were involved in their daughter's disappearance:
Tony Bennett published his letter online in May 2011.
(to camera) Today Tony Bennett appeared at the High
Court in London to answer a claim by the McCanns that
he'd breached an undertaking made in November 2009 to
stop publishing allegations about them.
(voice over) Madeleine McCann from Rothley in
Leicestershire went missing from her parent's holiday
apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007. A
year later Tony Bennett set up what's called The
Madeleine Foundation - an organisation that says it
wants to find out what really happened to
Madeleine.
The High Court heard that despite his undertaking in
2009, Mr Bennett continued to publish allegations about
the McCanns, including letters he wrote to the Prime
Minister, the Home Secretary and the senior Scotland
Yard detective leading a review into the Madeleine case.
(to camera) The McCanns' barrister Adrienne Page said
there was no complaint with Mr Bennett writing to the
Prime Minister with allegations. She said the complaint
was with publishing those allegations to the world at
large.
(voice over) Mr Bennett, from Essex, is representing
himself and has yet to formally to present his side in
this continuing case.
Mike O'Sullivan, BBC East Midlands Today, at the High
Court in London. |
