Maddie McCann’s parents lose court appeal
 

to silence cop who claims they covered up daughter’s death
Goncalo Amaral had worked on the investigation to find Maddie after she disappeared in May 2007

MADELEINE McCann’s parents have lost their new court appeal to silence the ex-cop who claims they covered up their daughter’s death, Portuguese media reports.

Portuguese Supreme Court judges met to resolve the couple’s fight against a lower court’s decision last April to reverse their 2015 libel win against Goncalo Amaral.

The hearing took place in private in Lisbon this morning.

The decision is a major milestone in Gerry and Kate McCann’s eight-year fight over a book written by Amaral, who led the initial hunt when then-three-year-old Madeleine vanished from their Algarve holiday apartment in May 2007.

Amaral was ordered to pay Kate and Gerry £430,000 plus interest in damages after losing round one of their libel battle in April 2015 over his hurtful book ‘The Truth of the Lie.’

Appeal judges reversed the initial ruling by a court in Lisbon in April last year, siding with the former police chief and overturning a ban on his book.

The decision sparked a fresh appeal by the McCanns to the country’s highest law court.

The couple could now face a huge legal bill, which had been frozen until the outcome of the final appeal.

The McCanns’ Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte lodged the couple’s new appeal last May after vowing to fight the U-turn by judges over Amaral’s book.

Criticising the ruling in favour of the ex-police chief, which a friend of the McCanns said had left them “seething,” she said: “This decision was an appreciation of the law and not the facts.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/275015...ughters-death/

Always thought they had something to do with it. R.

"his hurtful book". Unbiased reporting from The Sun as usual, then.

Don't worry Gerry, Murdoch will help with those legal bills in exchange for a few more exclusives for the dribbling Sun readers to lap up.

I know, it's baffling the amount of sympathy they get and lack of suspicion when there's literally no evidence to back up the kidnap theory but there is some to back up the "she died in the apartment" theory

Nearly 10 long years of fighting for Maddies right to justice is surely at an end I think arrests will soon follow

Do you think? By who though?

Last online poll showed over 90% DIDNT believe Mcs ,only the press has been behind them

the Press and the bloody British police, dodgy dodgy dodgy

SY have dragged their heels for a couple of years now, the strong feeling in Maddie groups is, they have done this to see outcome of this appeal

Oh really so you think it will actually be by the British police and not the Portuguese?

LT will be most displeased :oh:

I almost feel like I'm baiting him with this thread because he's banned from SDs atm I'm sorry LT (not sorry) :fan:

Met are as bent as .....

Portuguese have also got a review ongoing Ive always believed Maddies justice will come from Portugal ...crafty Mcs have moved money out of the "Fund" this week into an investment account

Oh I wondered where he was, I didn't know this was a thing banning from a section, and how do we know who is banned and how long for, or is it a secret :fan:

This is Amaral documentary Mcs tried to ban which outlines the book ,which is based on official police files


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpFm-kDFWk

I hope it does come from Portugal, although they should have done much more and not allowed themselves to be bullied

I actually don't even know, it's a new thing, i will find out though

Is LT being used as a guinea pig :omgno:

Political inference from Gordon Brown ,We are having a party in all Maddie groups ,nearly 10 yr its taken for the truth to come out, 10 yrs everyone has fought for this little girl its an amazing feeling that the end could be just around the corner

The problem is, at this point, so much time has passed that I can't see there being enough evidence for them to convict anyone of anything.

We really don't know what happened and it just seems hard to blame the parents specially if all they really did do was leave her.

I never would have left my children like that, where we went, they went. I found it shocking in itself that parents left them asleep in a room and went off to eat.

They had cadavar scent in the apartment, on Kates clothes, they had caught them out in lies regarding that night too which is very very odd if it was two parents whose child was genuinely kidnapped

I didn't know that, that seems very odd. But what happened to her? They weren't locals, how would you hide a body for all these years?

I don't know Jaxie, it just seems to be more the way the evidence points