Sightings of Maddie McCann [courtesy of the Madeleine Foundation) The sightings stem in essence from a short passage in the evidence given in an interim hearing in the libel trial in Lisbon of The McCanns v. Goncalo Amaral. Mr Amaral is the former senior investigating officer on the case who wrote the book A Verdada da Mentira - ‘The Truth About A Lie’ - in which he suggested that the evidence pointed to Madeleine having died in her parents’ holiday apartment. The McCanns in July 2009 served a libel writ in the Lisbon civil courts claiming 1.2 million euros (over £1 million) damages from Mr Amaral and his publishers, Guerra e Paz. That sum was the amount of profit estimated to have been made by Mr Amaral and his publishers during the year it had been on sale. It has sold around 250,000 copies in Portugal. The McCanns claimed that by suggesting that Madeleine was dead, Mr Amaral had seriously hindered the ongoing search for Madeleine and caused them immense emotional distress. In September, the McCanns obtained an indefinite injunction banning the sale of Mr Amaral’s book and an associated DVD and documentary produced by TVI a Portuguese TV channel). Mr Amaral appealed, and his appeal was heard between 12 and 14 January 2010. There was a further hearing on 11 February On 18 February he learnt that his appeal had failed. The banning of his book stays in place until the final libel trial, expected to be listed in June or some time after. *********During the hearing, one of Mr Amaral’s seven witnesses was a former colleague in the Madeleine McCann investigation, Ricardo Pavia. During his evidence, he said that there had been many sightings that the Portuguese police had not followed up, ever since the investigation was effectively archived in July 2008. The McCanns seized on this, and demanded, through their lawyers, inspection of the details of all these ‘sightings’. The result that is that the Portuguese police have indeed released their dossier of recent ‘sightings’ to the McCanns and their lawyers, and also to the media. The media has already been awash with stories of how the ‘incompetent’ Portuguese police had allegedly failed to follow up vital leads. But were they incompetent - and did they fail to follow vital leads? But of more importance is just how valuable were these sightings to the McCanns.. >>>>they cannot recall a single sighting Join us here https://facebook/groups/jkjoannekilcoyne/ https://youtube/watch?v=e7diM96ea
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:42:22 +0000
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