McCanns Get Court Date For £1m Cop Lawsuit

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16128127



The McCanns are seeking at least 1.2m euros (£1m) in damages from Goncalo Amaral

3:20pm UK, Sunday December 11, 2011
Gerry and Kate McCann's £1m lawsuit against the Portuguese police officer who bungled the hunt for missing Madeleine will be heard early next year, it is understood.

The civil case against Goncalo Amaral - who was in charge of the Madeleine investigation for five months before he was thrown off the case - will take place in Lisbon on February 9 and 10, according to a source close to the couple.
The 52-year-old former detective has made a fortune selling a book and TV documentary claiming the young British girl is dead - and wrongly claiming her parents staged a cover-up.



In their writ the McCanns describe Amaral as 'self-obsessed'

The McCanns have always strongly denied his allegation and in a 36-page writ lodged in June 2009, they accuse Mr Amaral of libel and breaching their human rights.
The couple, from Rothley in Leicestershire, will not give evidence themselves but are expected to attend court.
"Amaral has made the McCann family's life hell and he has made himself rich in the process," a family source said.
"Kate and Gerry want to stop him spouting his malicious lies about them and to stop him profiting from their pain, and the only way to do that is by going to court."
In their writ, the McCanns describe the now-retired detective as a self-obsessed, manipulative money-grabber with no morals.
They claim Mr Amaral's repeated insistence that their daughter is dead discouraged people from looking for her.
The couple also describe in detail the pain and anguish they say Mr Amaral caused them by repeatedly smearing them - saying his slurs left them "totally destroyed".

The McCanns are seeking at least 1.2m euros (£1m) in damages from the ex-policeman, and if they win the case the money will go towards the search for Madeleine.
Amaral's book, titled The Truth About The Lie, was translated into six languages and has sold more than 333,000 copies worldwide.
It was also made into a 50-minute TV documentary.
Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007, only days before her fourth birthday.
She had been left sleeping in a holiday apartment as her parents dined with friends in a nearby tapas bar in the resort of Praia da Luz in southern Portugal.
The country's attorney general Jose Pinto Monteiro has cleared the McCanns of any wrongdoing over Madeleine's disappearance.

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McCanns Get Court Date For £1m Cop Lawsuit

Gerry and Kate McCann's £1m lawsuit against the Portuguese police officer who bungled the hunt for missing Madeleine will be heard early next year, it is understood.

The civil case against Goncalo Amaral - who was in charge of the Madeleine investigation for five months before he was thrown off the case - will take place in Lisbon on February 9 and 10, according to a source close to the couple.

The 52-year-old former detective has made a fortune selling a book and TV documentary claiming the young British girl is dead - and wrongly claiming her parents staged a cover-up.

The McCanns have always strongly denied his allegation and in a 36-page writ lodged in June 2009, they accuse Mr Amaral of libel and breaching their human rights.

The couple, from Rothley in Leicestershire, will not give evidence themselves but are expected to attend court.

"Amaral has made the McCann family's life hell and he has made himself rich in the process," a family source said.

"Kate and Gerry want to stop him spouting his malicious lies about them and to stop him profiting from their pain, and the only way to do that is by going to court."

In their writ, the McCanns describe the now-retired detective as a self-obsessed, manipulative money-grabber with no morals.

They claim Mr Amaral's repeated insistence that their daughter is dead discouraged people from looking for her.

The couple also describe in detail the pain and anguish they say Mr Amaral caused them by repeatedly smearing them - saying his slurs left them "totally destroyed".

The McCanns are seeking at least 1.2m euros (£1m) in damages from the ex-policeman, and if they win the case the money will go towards the search for Madeleine.


Amaral's book, titled The Truth About The Lie, was translated into six languages and has sold more than 333,000 copies worldwide.

It was also made into a 50-minute TV documentary.

Madeleine disappeared on May 3, 2007, only days before her fourth birthday.

She had been left sleeping in a holiday apartment as her parents dined with friends in a nearby tapas bar in the resort of Praia da Luz in southern Portugal.

The country's attorney general Jose Pinto Monteiro has cleared the McCanns of any wrongdoing over Madeleine's disappearance.


The couple, from Rothley in Leicestershire, will not give evidence themselves but are expected to attend court.


So much for all those hater fantasies.

Going on the book sales, he needs no defense fund....does he?

I will leave the legalities to sans, I think - but every word of the allegations was proven by that ridiculous homage to Gonc that appeared a few days ago.

He is still smearing them, still whining, still scheming, as he showed with crystal clarity whilst being strikingly tall.

The pitchforkers and ghouls must be rich, that they can afford to chew up so many carpets so close to Christmas - they don't seem to be taking too kindly to hearing the truth.

Thank you bb1 for the link, already at J4, PFA2, Myths, with the same title.

MM hater:

Hi there.

Seems the sky news story is going down like a lead balloon in forum land. I've been reading on a few other sites on this and the case in general, including the amazon book one, where both sides are engaged in debate.

The egos of the Mccanns are up there in the clouds.

Charming! Good job no-one gives a flying one what pitchforkers think of anything, isn't it? It's funny watching them pretend they are the 'general public', though

this is not about egos, what we have here is the truth about a disgusting sacked person, whose only purpose was to gain fame and fortune, with the disgusting behaviour which is known: lies, smears, defamation, unproven theories, at the expenses of innocents.

Question on Bennett's forum:

Who would finally tell the truth about the disappearance of Madeleine?

I reckon Lovely Sofa will be the first to crack and break Team Gonc's Pact of Silence - should get her kiss'n'tell off to a flying start in the Portuguese tabloids.

Very true, HB.

Meanwhile on MM, the delusion continues:

I think Blacksmith is right on the money with this.

Pre-emptive spinning - the name of the game.
And it's a delicious thought that they may have been fed the snippet of the Met's travel plans to see how they'd run with it


Oh, do grow up! So, having met the McCanns' people and received information from them, the Met is interested in a loose end in Spain that may, or may not, lead to Madeleine....but they are pretending to.....what?

Why is it a 'delicious thought' that the Met is playing a game where they pretend to be in Barcelona, or whatever those lunatics think is going on?

Delusional, the lot of them - they will tell each other any ridiculous story rather than face reality or the truth.