McCanns will miss cop's trial

McCanns will miss cop's trial
9 September 2012
Daily Star

The parents of Madeleine McCann will avoid a showdown with a former police chief who wrongly claimed they lied about their daughter’s disappearance.

Kate and Gerry McCann are hoping to win a £1million libel payout from disgraced Goncalo Amaral, who they say has made their life hell.

But the McCanns, both 44, are staying away from this week’s trial in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.

Mr Amaral, 55, is attending the four-day hearing, which is scheduled to start on Thursday.

Kate and Gerry branded the ex-officer “poisonous” for claiming in a once-banned book that Maddie is dead and that they lied about her disappearance.

Their daughter vanished in Praia da Luz, Portugal, five years ago, aged three.

The McCanns’ lawyer Isabel Duarte said yesterday: “Kate and Gerry are not needed in Portugal for the trial.”

She said they were confident of victory, adding: “We reasonably expect compensation for the dreadful damages this book has brought the family.”

Any payout will be spent entirely on the continuing global search for Maddie, the couple said.

Mr Amaral led the bungled investigation but was sacked for criticising British police.

Kate wrote in her 2011 book Madeleine: “That man has caused us so much upset and anger.”

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, DISGRACED, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Libel case, The Truth of the Lie

Maddie McCann trial 'ruined our marriage'

Maddie McCann trial 'ruined our marriage'
9 September 2012
Express
James Murray

The wife of former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral today reveals how the libel action brought against him by Kate and Gerry McCann wrecked their 10-year marriage.

The McCanns will begin the action in Lisbon on Thursday seeking £1million damages over claims about their missing daughter Madeleine.


Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Express, Mr Amaral’s wife Sofia, who is separated from her husband, said:

‘‘He is almost broke and the strain of all this legal action has made him ill and ended our marriage.”

Kate and Gerry have decided not to attend but Mr Amaral, 54, will be there for the four-day trial even though he does not have to give evidence.

He insists he does not have a secret pot of “Maddie gold” from the publication of his book The Truth Of The Lie and will defend his claim in it that Madeleine could have died accidentally in the Praia da Luz apartment on the Algarve on May 3, 2007, aged three.

Sofia added:

“I am really worried about his health.”

   

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Libel case, The English Gag, The Truth of the Lie

McCanns versus Gonçalo Amaral begins September 13, 2012

As reported by the British Media

Maddie McCann parents’ £1m bid over ‘lies’
1 September 2012
The Sun
Antonella Lazzeri

Please read article at the source.

Highlights:

The libel case lodged against Goncalo Amaral by the McCanns will start in Lisbon on 13 of September 2012

The McCanns are hoping to win £1million payout from "former cop" Goncalo Amaral
 

• Dr. Gonçalo Amaral is more than a 'former cop".
  
• He is a former Criminal Investigation Coordinator with the PJ, which is the equivalent rank to Detective Chief Superintendent in the UK
  
• Amaral obtained law degree in 1980
  
• He joined Policia Judiciaria (Portuguese police) in 1981
  
• £1million equals 1,588,100 US dollars at exchange rate Sept 1 2012
  

Amaral claims they lied about Madeleine's disappearance.

• Amaral is not alone in this. 
• See :: Guardian article:  UK cops developed evidence against the McCanns:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/13/wikileaks-madeleine-mccann-british-police
  

He was the 'police boss who led the initial search for Maddie after her abduction in May 2007'

• Amaral was the Coordinator of the investigation, leading a team of Portuguese detectives and coordinating with British police. 
• He was removed from the case in October 2007. Gordon Brown was told of the decision BEFORE Amaral himself was informed.

"He went on to write a book sold worldwide in which he claimed her parents covered up her death from an accident or overdose of sedatives."

• Amaral's book entitled "A Verdada da Mentira" (The Truth of the Lie) has never been available in the United Kingdom. 
• It has never been published in English, although there are unofficial English translations available online, translated by volunteers.
• See :: Unofficial English translation: http://frommybigdesk.blogspot.com/2010/01/maddie-truth-of-lie.html
• See :: Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGhlYTNisw&feature=share&list=PLBE595EE99A5E050D

"Kate and Gerry...said the slurs left them “totally destroyed”."

• See: AT LAST, SAD KATE MCCANN CAN SMILE AGAIN
  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/254636/At-last-sad-Kate-McCann-can-smile-again

http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/285x214/254636_1.jpg

• Note: this image was removed from the Express website, allegedly upon request of the McCanns 
• See :: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2011/06/express-at-last-sad-kate-mccann-can.html

Damages will go towards the hunt for Maddie

• See: Madeleine's Fund - Review & Investigation of Accounts
• http://www.mccannfiles.com/id405.html

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Maddie parents’ libel bid
1 September 2012
Daily Star
Jerry Lawton

Please read article at the source.

Highlights:

The McCanns’ are still considering whether to appear to face Goncalo Amaral

• It is not known whether McCanns intend to actually travel to Portugal or whether they intend to appear via video link.

Clarence Mitchell said: “If they win the case every penny they receive in damages will go into the Madeleine Fund.”

• See: Madeleine's Fund - Review & Investigation of Accounts
  http://www.mccannfiles.com/id405.html

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Libel case, Policia Judiciaria, The Truth of the Lie, WikiLeaks

Updates re: Amaral's The Truth of the Lie (Joana Morais Blog)

• McCann Case: Judge orders the immediate devolution of Gonçalo Amaral's Book
  14 March 2012
  Joana Morais
   
• New episodes of the Judicial war with Maddie's parents: Gonçalo Amaral goes on the attack
  7 March 2012
  Joana Morais
   
• Maddie Case: Gonçalo Amaral returns to Praia da Luz
  2 March 2012
  Joana Morais
   
• Police Cases: “Truth of the Lie” is on its Way
  26 February 2012
  Joana Morais

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Isabel Duarte, The Truth of the Lie

Gonçalo Amaral - Maddie Case leads to Divorce

Gonçalo Amaral - Maddie Case leads to Divorce
Nova Gente
14 February 2012
Translated from Portuguese to English by Joana Morais

Please leave any comments and view other's comments on the original Joana Morais Blog:
http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2012/02/goncalo-amaral-maddie-case-leads-to.html

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Continue Reading... Labels: Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Libel case

The Carvi Seafood Scandal

THE CARVI SEAFOOD RESTAURANT SCANDAL
Fish Feed Fiasco

The following news articles published in the British press were based on alleged observations made at the 'Carvi', a seafood restaurant in Portimão, Portugal.

The anonymous 'fellow diner' referred to in the articles is extremely important!

He or she has been (and continues to be) used by the British media to manipulate public opinion regarding the Portuguese police.

It therefore seems important to understand whether this person was a member of the media itself, or simply a 'concerned citizen' who happened to speak to reporters.

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Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Carvi Scandal, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Policia Judiciaria, The Truth of the Lie

£1m McCann court battle

12 December 2011
Scottish Daily Record
Tom Worden

GERRY and Kate McCann's £1million lawsuit against the cop who bungled the hunt for Madeleine will be heard in two months.

The civil case against Goncalo Amaral will take place in Lisbon on February 9 and 10, a source close to the couple said yesterday.

Amaral, 52, ran the investigation into the three-year-old's disappearance in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in 2007 for five months before being removed.

He later made a fortune selling a book and TV documentary claiming the youngster was dead and wrongly accusing her parents of staging a cover-up. The McCanns lodged a 36-page writ in the Portuguese capital in June 2009 accusing him of libel and breaching their human rights.

The source said: "Amaral has made the McCann family's life hell and himself rich in the process.

"Kate and Gerry want to stop him spouting malicious lies about them and profiting from their pain.

"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.

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Gonçalo Amaral: “Justice works in Silence”

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Clarence Mitchell, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, Libel case, The Truth of the Lie

Gonçalo Amaral's Book Ban Overturned -McCanns Have Not Returned Books

22 Aug 2011
 

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Ban Overturned, Censorship, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

The journey is not an easy one

An Emotional Gonçalo Amaral Describes His Family's Suffering

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie

Le commissaire accuse les parents

Le commissaire accuse les parents
T.B.
4 August 2011 
Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France 
French 

ENGLISH TRANSLATION  
(via LanguageWeaver)

The commissioner accused parents

With its impressive stature and his bald head, he is the absolute nightmare of spouses McCann. Former commissioner of the Portuguese Judicial Police of Portimão, Goncalo Amaral directed the investigation on the disappearance of Maddie for several months. A professional failure, but also a good source of trouble : disowned by his hierarchy after having publicly criticized the attitude of the English police, he was prematurely departs from the investigations. The investigator is in spite of everything sure to hold the truth. After resigning from the police to regain his freedom to speak, he delivered his version in a book for the prosecution against the parents of the little girl, published in England in 2008.

The thesis of Goncalo Amaral is clear : Maddie is dead accidentally by the negligence of the parents who would have then done disappear its corpse and put in scene the thesis of the abduction. The book offers no evidence, but rather a series of indices, to begin with what he called the "Contradictions in the statements of the spouses McCann". The policeman also insists on the traces of blood found in the apartment. "Unfortunately, it is a corpse that he must seek", assigned to us-it in May 2009 , when the output of the book in France * .

Kate and Gerry McCann have continued to fight to prohibit the dissemination of this book. After having won the case, they were dismissed on appeal by a court of appeal Portuguese, in the name of freedom of expression. In 2010, the former policeman has published a second book, non-translated in France and entitled "The English Gag " (le gag anglais). This time, it puts in question the English authorities to have weighed on the investigation. When we had met in Paris, he was already part of its criticism of the general staff of the British police : " n Great Britain, the vision of the folder is political ," he complained.

* " Maddie : the investigation prohibited ",
Bourin Editor.
Lisbon (Portugal), July 24, 2008.
Goncalo Amaral had published a book in which he defended the thesis of the accidental death of Maddie McCann.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

Continue Reading... Labels: A Verdade da Mentira, Goncalo Amaral, Gonçalo Amaral, The Truth of the Lie