'Claims In Book Multiplied Our Pain'

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Madeleine: 'Claims In Book Multiplied Our Pain'

Madeleine's father says he and wife Kate were left in "purgatory" by claims they were involved in her disappearance.



Gerry McCann arrives at the court in Lisbon

Gerry McCann and his sister have given evidence in Lisbon against a former police chief accused of making allegations about the disappearance of his daughter, Madeleine.

The McCanns say former detective Goncolo Amaral is hindering the search for Madeleine after publishing a book which claimed they hid their daughter's body after faking her abduction.

Mr Amaral, who first led the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance before being removed in 2007 after criticising British detectives, has denied defaming the McCanns in his book, The Truth Of The Lie.

Arriving at the court with his sister Trish Cameron and Kate McCann's mother Susan Healy, Mr McCann told waiting reporters: "We are here to listen to the judge and hopefully be heard."

Mrs Cameron told the court that the publication of the book in 2008 and a TV documentary based on it the following year caused the family to be "vilified" and "demonised".

She added that Madeleine's twin siblings Sean and Amelie, now eight, told their parents that comments were made by fellow pupils at their school.

She told the court: "My brother and sister-in-law live in purgatory because they have no end and they are looking for the truth. They would like an end but there is no end because they don't know what's happened."

The court heard the McCann's pain over the disappearance of their daughter was "multiplied 100 times" by the Amaral's book.

Kate McCann attended court last month on the first day of the case where she told reporters she was in Portugal to "stop the damage" she claims was being caused to the search for her daughter.

The court heard how she had suicidal thoughts after Mr Amaral, who initially led the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, claimed she had covered up her daughter's death.

Psychologist Alan Pike said that after the publication of the former police chief's book in 2008, Mrs McCann "thought about not being around anymore".

Although the Portuguese investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is now officially closed, British detectives who believe she could be alive have launched a fresh investigation into the case.

If successful in their claim the family could secure £1m in damages. The case is expected to finish hearing evidence in November.

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I actually don't know how Gonc can deny defamation.

It doesn't come much worse than accusing people of driving around with the corpse of their decaying, defrosting daughter in their car.

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ABOUT 1 HOUR AGO MCCANNS 'DEMONISED' OVER BOOK
McCanns' grief 'multiplied 100 times' by cop's book
The McCanns' pain over the disappearance of their daughter was "multiplied 100 times" by a book by a former Portuguese police chief, a court has heard.

Gerry McCann's sister Trish Cameron said he and wife Kate had been "demonised" and "vilified" by the disappearance of Madeleine and claims that they were somehow involved.

She was speaking at the trial of former police chief Goncalo Amaral whose book, The Truth Of The Lie, suggested the McCann's hid their daughter's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction.

Bet Gonc wishes he could have stopped Trish from testifying, too.

I wonder if his conscience bothers him at all? Is that why he lost weight?

Mrs Cameron told the court that the publication of the book in 2008 and a TV documentary based on it the following year caused the family to be "vilified" and "demonised".

She added that Madeleine's twin siblings Sean and Amelie, now eight, told their parents that comments were made by fellow pupils at their school.

I hope Gonc and his scummy supporters are proud of themselves. Oh, who am I kidding, of course they will be, there's nothing they like better than hurting the McCann family.

All of the McCann family.     

Madeleine McCann parents' pain 'multiplied 100 times' by ex police chief's book, libel trial hears

2 Oct 2013 14:36
Trish Cameron, sister of Madeleine's father Gerry, said her family had been left in 'purgatory' by Madeleine's disappearance and claims they were somehow involved

The McCanns' pain over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine was "multiplied 100 times" by a book by a former Portuguese police chief, a court has been told today.

Trish Cameron, sister of Gerry McCann, said her brother and his wife Kate had been left in "purgatory" by the disappearance of their daughter and claims that they were somehow involved.

Speaking at the libel trial of ex police chief Goncalo Amaral, Mrs Cameron said the publication of his book The Truth of The Lie in 2008 and a TV documentary based on it the following year had caused the family to be "vilified" and "demonised".

And she said Madeleine's twin siblings Sean and Amelie, now eight, told their parents that comments were made by fellow pupils at their school.

Mrs Cameron said: "My brother and sister-in-law live in purgatory because they have no end and they are looking for the truth.

"They would like an end but there is no end because they don't know what's happened."

The McCanns say the former detective's claims in his book, including suggestions that they hid their daughter's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction, damaged the hunt for Madeleine and exacerbated her family's anguish.

The family stand to gain £1 million in damages if their legal action is successful.

Mrs Cameron, whose voice cracked as she described the effect Mr Amaro's book had had on her family, said: "They were vilified in this book so their distress was multiplied 100 times.

"This pain was felt by all of their family because we still have a missing child and we knew that what is in there is not true."

Mrs Cameron, from Glasgow, travelled to Lisbon with brother Gerry, who has also applied to give evidence in the case.

Mr McCann still does not know whether he will be able to give evidence at the trial, and no decision was taken today.

Other legal teams are thought to have until October 16 to make submissions on his application, ahead of the judge making her final decision.

As Mr McCann left court at lunchtime, he said: "Obviously it's disappointing, but we will just keep going."

In her evidence, Mrs Cameron told the court that she thought she was the first person in the UK Gerry had called after Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007.

She spent three months in Portugal with Kate and Gerry, and later returned, and continued to help the family in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Mrs Cameron, a nurse, described how the family drew up a rota to help Kate and Gerry when they first returned from Portugal, and had to put it back in place after the book was published in July 2008 as they struggled to cope with its effects.

"Kate was in a very low mood, she was not coping with daily things," she said.

"She was doing solitary things, almost like torturing herself, out running long, long distances by herself.

"She was going to church and praying on a daily basis, and she was sleeping for a long time too.

"She wouldn't go out socially at all, she would not go to a shop.

"We had to help with practical things like the shopping and cooking and looking after the children to help her."

She said the effects of the book were worse than when the McCanns were made arguidos, or formal suspects.

"This was a different thing. It was much more conclusive and demonising them, dehumanising them, saying they did not care for their children, that they were responsible.

"It makes it out that they weren't truthful and they have been villified and it's very hard to turn round opinion about them that has been so widely spread."

She told the court the Portuguese people had "turned against" the McCanns, adding: "Maybe people like a solution and an end to things, they were fed up with the McCanns, they wanted them to go away, but they weren't going away. They still had a missing child.

"This perhaps gave people a conclusion, but it's not the right conclusion, it's all lies."

Mrs Cameron said her brother had been jeered at in the street when he returned to Portugal in April 2009, and was advised to hire security.

He and wife Kate only started going out socialising in the last year or two, she said, but are more comfortable in people's houses "where they are not being watched or scrutinised".

And she said the effects of the family's demonisation had continued, taking its toll on twins Sean and Amelie.

Asked if the twins knew about the book and the TV programme, she said: "Last week Amelie came in from school and said some people had been talking about it.

"She said that people were talking about them at school, and that it was not all good things that had been said.

"In the past Sean has come in and said to Gerry, 'Daddy are you famous?'

"Gerry said, 'why are you asking that?', and he said because a boy at school had seen him on the television.

"Gerry continued doing what he was doing and said, 'no I'm not famous, it's because your sister is missing'.

Kate McCann's mother Susan Healy was also due to give evidence today but it emerged that the McCanns' lawyer Isabel Duarte had dismissed all of her English-speaking witnesses other than Mrs Cameron, but forgotten the request amidst the confusion of the case.

She asked today to call Ms Healy but the request was declined by judge Maria Emilia Melo e Castro.

Madeleine's mum Kate appeared at the court last month on the first day of the libel trial, saying she was trying to "stop the damage" she believes is being caused to the search for her daughter.

The court has been told how she had suicidal thoughts after Mr Amaral claimed she had covered up her daughter's death,and psychologist Alan Pike said that after the publication of the former police chief's book in July 2008, Mrs McCann "thought about not being around any more".


Three-year-old Madeleine disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with friends.

Mr Amaral, who initially led the inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance, was removed from the case in October 2007 after criticising UK police.

British detectives launched a fresh investigation into the youngster's disappearance in July this year and believe she could still be alive.

The Portuguese investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is officially closed.

The case, in which Mr Amaral denies defamation, is expected to finish hearing evidence in November.



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No wonder that disgusting man is terrified to face Gerry McCann.    

Big Rock is such a coward that he cannot bear to listen to it. He knows he is the cause.  

Even I hadn't grasped what a complete, unmitigated, cowardly sh*t Gonc is until this afternoon, Lily. This would be bad enough if he had any backbone. Instead, he seems to have a big yellow streak right where his spine should be.

Don't the biggest cowards make the worst bullies?

I believe they do. We have some proof of his bullying ways.

Today's testimony has provided rather upsetting insight into just how much hurt Amoral has inflicted on the McCann family. Normal, decent people cannot fail to be moved by it.

And what are the forkers all doing? High-fiving each other, and cheering the scruffy coward they all idolize.

If anyone still needed proof that they are the dregs of society, incapable of insight, empathy, anything that makes people human, they got it today.

But what else can you expect from them, adoring as they do a cowardly, oafish criminal.

This will be wasted on the lowlifes that support Amoral:


Madeleine McCann's Parents' Grief Laid Bare In Libel Trial Of Portuguese Police Chief's Book

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted: 02/10/2013 15:08 BST | Updated: 02/10/2013 15:13 BST

The parents of Madeleine McCanns' pain over the disappearance of their daughter was "multiplied 100 times" by a book by a former Portuguese police chief, a court has heard.

Gerry McCann's sister Trish Cameron said he and wife Kate had been left in "purgatory" by the disappearance of Madeleine and claims that they were somehow involved.

Speaking at the libel trial of former police chief Goncalo Amaral, Mrs Cameron said the publication of his book in 2008 and a TV documentary based on it the following year caused the family to be "vilified" and "demonised"

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Jay Elles ‏@Jayelles1 3h
What IS the point of the hate campaign? To destroy Madeleine's family? Hound #mccann to the grave?

Yes. It's sadism, nothing more.

Decades ago, these bottom-feeders would have been leading lynch mobs in the bad old Deep South.

Centuries ago, they would have been shrieking with glee as their poor neighbours were burned as witches.

Their ancestors are the kind who took their children to public executions as their idea of a nice day out.

They've always been with us, and they really are the dregs. They don't care about anyone or anything, as long as they have some poor sod to victimise and torment. Unfortunately, this particular shower have keyboards.

How bl**dy dare Gonc's lawyer sneer and say Gerry McCann's testimony is 'not relevant'?

Because he is afraid that his case may collapse if he goes ahead? Remember that the lawyer will try to downplay the McCanns as to be inconsequential, to avoid payment of beaucoup bucks.

If the forkers could stop high-fiving because they imagine Gonc's lawyer is scoring points off the McCanns and look at the famed Bigger Picture, they would get a shock.

The McCanns and Ms Duarte have already won the hearts and minds debate hands down, while the McCann-haters were distracted with nit-picking.

It really doesn't matter what the McCann-haters think of anything, as they'll whine whatever the McCanns do or don't do.

But the real general public? The ones whose lives DON'T revolve around trying to hatespam the Daily Mail? In their minds, the case against Gonzo is already proven.

Oh yes and Gonc will forever be known as the incompetent disgraced cop who failed a vulnerable (at the time) 3 year old child.

My brother and sister-in-law live in purgatory because they have no truth.

“They would like an end but there is no end because they don’t know what happened.”

That is tragic.  How can somebody not be compelled to feel compassion for them as they go through this?  

That is one of the biggest reasons I call the other side, haters etc.  It is as though they are missing hearts.  

That is part of Gonc's legacy. He did not do his job properly and instead wrote a hateful book.

lily, your words are mine.