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McCanns' troll stole £18,000 from her own parents: Woman who accused Kate and Gerry of neglect left dementia suffering mother and father alone for five weeks while she went on holiday
Debbie Butler distributed inflammatory leaflets in McCanns' home village
Suggested the couple were responsible for their daughter's disappearance
She was supposed to be caring for her parents, Alan and Dorothy Johnson
But instead she stole their money and used cash to fund trip to Spain
Her 74-year-old mother died after being left helpless for more than a month
Butler's father, a Royal Marines veteran, was found covered in own filth
Campaign: Debbie Butler handed out leaflets suggesting Gerry and Kate McCann were responsible for their daughter’s disappearance
A woman who repeatedly accused Madeleine McCann’s parents of neglect left her own elderly mother and father in squalor for five weeks.
Debbie Butler, who handed out leaflets suggesting Gerry and Kate McCann were responsible for their daughter’s disappearance, was supposed to be caring for her parents Alan and Dorothy Johnson, who both suffered with dementia.
But instead the 51-year-old went on holiday to Spain where she allegedly had an extramarital affair. She had stolen £18,400 from her parents to fund her trips away as well as to buy booze and consumer goods.
After being left helpless for more than a month, her 74-year-old mother died in October 2011. Butler’s sister then found their 79-year-old father, a former Met police officer and Royal Marines veteran, emaciated and covered in his own filth.
Butler was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence at Brighton Magistrates Court for fraud last week.
She had taken cash from her parents’ accounts, used their debit cards and diverted their state pension and care allowance.
Butler, who has a grandson, had not arranged any carers to cover her absence in Spain and did not attend her mother’s funeral. Judge David Rennie told her: ‘You have brought tremendous shame on yourself. This was a dreadful abuse of trust.’
Butler chaired the Madeleine Foundation, which supposedly campaigned for justice for three-year-old Madeleine, who vanished in Portugal in 2007.
She arranged for hundreds of inflammatory leaflets to be distributed in the McCanns’ home village in Leicestershire.
Butler’s sister, 48-year-old Michelle Johnson, said she would never forgive her for ‘defrauding and dehumanising’ their parents. ‘The money is one thing, the neglect is the evilest thing,’ she added.
A hearing later this year will determine how Butler, of Maidstone in Kent, is to repay what she stole. She was convicted in December of four counts of false representation.
The Mail has made a donation to Dementia UK at the request of the Johnson family.
Look at what she spent the money on - booze, and sh*gging Spaniards. She really should be in jail right this minute, revolting apology for a human being that she is.
The money would have been bad enough - but the rest of it beggars belief. How can a supposed human being be so vile and sadistic to the people that brought her into the world?
And let's not forget, while all this was going on, she was moralising at other people.
Pound to a penny, her fellow haters won't condemn her, they'll all try to find a way of blaming the McCanns for Butler being a waste of oxygen.
She had taken cash from her parents’ accounts, used their debit cards and diverted their state pension and care allowance.
She even stole their old age pension.
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A hearing later this year will determine how Butler, of Maidstone in Kent, (pictured) is to repay what she stole.
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Sweetpara37, Telford, 5 hours ago
Where's her solid proof and evidence about the McCann's? No one can judge what they cannot prove or don't know about, also for the neglect and theft from her own parents deserves a prison sentence and not a suspended one either! This lady needs knocking down a peg or two, who does she think she is?
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null, 5 hours ago
Where was the other sister? I'm not excusing her, but if she was looking after two elderly dementia sufferers alone no wonder she went half crazy herself...
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Rambolina, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 hours ago
Nasty little Troll she is.
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null, 5 hours ago
Despicable woman and unbelievable sentence from the Court
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Rick, Manchester, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I'm not a fan of the McCanns but this woman really is a piece of work!
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Panda68, Cork, Ireland, 5 hours ago
So sad...may they rest in peace...+
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kath, sydney, Australia, 5 hours ago
Oh my God, how absolutely horrendous. And this specimen thinks she has the right to judge complete strangers (the McCanns)?
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wolfy, Gold coast, Australia, 5 hours ago
People guilty of these crimes always seem to get a susspended sentence, not right.
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Sally1234, Hull, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Her action caught up with her! Should watch what u say.
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Lara2013, London, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I can't imagine the pain of losing one of my children then having people blame me for it
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Sarah0088, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
I'm sure the father didn't want his last degrading moments of life published in the news!
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jo, tunbridge wells, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Clearly this woman has some serious mental problems. It makes you wonder how many more peole like this are out there.
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jnl53, perth, 6 hours ago
What a piece of work she is.
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Embrace, Here, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Suspended? I actually despise myself for wondering why.
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CJ76, Midlands, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
The Truth About The Trolls. It's all coming out now. Despicable.
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AC, tokyo, Japan, 6 hours ago
What a despicable , trolling coward
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hnicholls85, cheshire, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Hate the way people can't have their own opinion of those two
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Francis David, Finestrat, 6 hours ago
Why only two years? And why a suspended sentence? Ten years actual incarceration would not be enough.
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DSQUARED, Ascot, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
There's low life, and then there's Debbie Butler. How on earth does this oxygen thief sleep at night..?
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Someone in, Manchester, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
People in glass houses!
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Alex, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
For a bit of fame nowadays people would sell their mother's ashes!
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Opinionated, Someplace, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
I am caring for my 86 year old mother, visiting her 2 or 3 times a day to help her. I can't imagine abandoning her and neglecting the very person who cared for me, when I was young. I agree with her sister that the neglect is far worse than the money. She should have received a far longer sentence.
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gossipgrl, Vancouver, Canada, 6 hours ago
A story about a troll? What makes this particular one newsworthy?
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Constable Plod, Tokyo, Japan, 6 hours ago
Mum dead, Dad left covered in his own filth and she gets a suspended sentence? What is wrong with the courts in this country? She deserves a minimum 6 months in a cell with no toilet!
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Shane Nolan, Bunclody, 6 hours ago
SHE has the audacity to accuse them of neglect?
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null, 6 hours ago
Evil woman, needs a prison sentence so she can reflect on what she did to her own parents, shame on her, I can't write what I'm actually thinking of her else it won't be in the comments.
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x Savannah x, somewhere_out_there, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
How anyone can be despicable enough to troll the McCanns is downright nasty. But to do that to her own parents is evil. She sould be ashamed of herself.
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Perthgirl1234, Perth, Australia, 6 hours ago
Evil woman
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SNP 43, Suffolk, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
A 2 year suspended prison sentence? Is that all? This woman is a self centred nightmare!
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ZEITGEIST, Walsall, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Wow... I have no words for this...
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Deeps, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
DM, pleeeeease! Learn the actual definition of trolling. It isn't what you seem to think it is. This woman is not one.
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N C S, Here, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
I thought Brenda Leyland was your McGann troll of choice ?
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Blueblue, Wales, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Disgusting human being (if she can be classed as human!), she should be ashamed. Bless her parents, feel sorry for them both.
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Galactic Cannibal, Murrieta California, United States, 6 hours ago
Suspended sentence !!!!!! Clearly there is no justice in England.
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Golden_Girl_Petrillo, Miami, United States, 6 hours ago
Absolutely vile woman. Whether or not you believe the McCanns were responsible, I think everyone can agree that this woman is one of the biggest hypocrites around.
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Ada, London, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Shame on her. What a nasty thing to do.
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Yorkshire Rose, Doncaster, 6 hours ago
This woman is despicable and should be in prison.
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Rhyannondrose, Ipswich, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
What a hideous woman.
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tt, bristol, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Shame on her! May she live with the guilt of the suffering she caused for the rest of her life. No excuse... She could've sought help with the money she stole.
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The Green Eye, W.A., Australia, 6 hours ago
And what does a suspended prison sentence do. She would be grinning all the way home. Give her legal aid as well did you. Idiots.
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Dawn Chorus, Exeter, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
I thought from the headline that this article was going to be about the late Brenda Leyland. Of course when I clicked on the story it was about another of the McCann's trolls.
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Gyto, Cardiff, 6 hours ago
What do you have to do to be sent to prison. Leaving her elderly parents alone amounts to cruelty let alone stealing over £18.000. A two year suspended sentence is a complete joke, that's nothing more than a slap on the wrists.
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Michael WW, Camberley, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
A Royal Marines veteran? Don't you mean a Royal Marine veteran? Once a Royal Marine always a Royal Marine and nothing ever changes that!
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Hatcham, London, 6 hours ago
Gosh, the McCanns are irritating
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Vic, Qatar, 6 hours ago
I doubt the McCanns are gloating, they would appear to be too nice to do that,but I am. Shown up in all her nastiness. Just have to hope her parents, although they obviously suffered tremendously, did not understand it was their own flesh and blood putting them through so much pain.
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insanity prevails, Bristol, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Hardly in a position to take the moral high ground, is she?
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Rhyannondrose, Ipswich, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
What a hideous person.
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Freddie, Speluges, Monaco, 6 hours ago
Suspended sentence? Useless justice yet again.
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Merope, London, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Just like the other McCann troll, they are sad pretenders.
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Mrs Tumble, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
Disgusting woman!!
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Sunseeker1, Notts, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
Why hasn't she gone to prison? This country is nuts
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daw56, London, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
Despicable hypocrite.
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Wherearemyglasses, Gloucester, 7 hours ago
Hopefully she will never be rid of the shame. Until her last breath.
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Alice, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
How to repay the money stolen? What about repaying them for the love and care she had when younger. It's worrying that there are increasing numbers of elderly people who are terrorised, abused, unloved and uncared for by their own families.
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Gailbm, Cardiff, 7 hours ago
Actually he face advertises the sort of vicious uncaring person she is. It's written all over her face. Who does thing like she's done FGS. They should have jailed her to teach her a lesson.
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Mjrowden, London, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
Scumbag
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AngloSaxon, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, 7 hours ago
I guess when you read this sort of story you have to try and hang onto the fact that the majority of us are decent caring people and the ones like this are a small minority, filth but a minority.
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