The Telegraph report 11/9/13

MaryB wrote:Well I expect Kate McCann thinks she knows better than anyone.  After all she was the one who thought it was perfectly safe to leave three under four's alone in a locked or unlocked apartment depending on which version you believe.  So I'm sure everything will turn out just fine.

almostgothic wrote:More from the same journo:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/10304279/Ex-Madeleine-McCann-police-chief-seeks-to-ban-media-from-1m-libel-trial.html

LJC wrote:A source said: "Because of the sensitivity of the situation, police don't want the McCanns anywhere near the country because they fear it could turn into a media circus.

The Met police are worried it will create a bigger platform for Mr Amaral and his supporters to spout more bile and could damage their own inquiries in the country."

This is not how a Police source would speak.  

 

Panda wrote:Kate McCann faces former police chief in £1m libel trial over Madeleine's disappearance
Kate McCann will come face to face with the former police chief she and her husband Gerry accuse of hampering the search for their missing daughter Madeleine when their libel case against him starts in Lisbon on Thursday.
Mrs McCann's attendance in court is understood to be against the advice of Scotland Yard detectives who are attempting to launch their own investigation in the Algarve to try to solve the six-year mystery.

Whatever happened to "we will co-operate fully with the police"?

The couple are suing disgraced detective Goncalo Amaral for £1 million over allegations he made about the fate of Madeleine, who disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz shortly before her fourth birthday in May, 2007.

Still waiting to see by whose standards he is "disgraced". That one has never been adequately explained.
It is feared that her presence in Portugal will provoke a media circus and further aggravate Portuguese authorities as the Scotland Yard team seek cooperation to carry out their own inquiries on Portuguese soil.

Maybe that's the intention. On second thoughts, it's definitely the intention.

A source said: "Because of the sensitivity of the situation, police don't want the McCanns anywhere near the country because they fear it could turn into a media circus.

"The Met police are worried it will create a bigger platform for Mr Amaral and his supporters to spout more bile and could damage their own inquiries in the country.

Self explanatory.

"It will be bad enough having all the old allegations dragged up again and repeated. No doubt Mr Amaral will want to say his bit outside the court and it will all flare up again. It will not be helpful for the Yard."

Did anybody at "the yard" actually say this?
Madeleine disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz shortly before her fourth birthday in May, 2007

Neither Mr nor Mrs McCann from Rothley, Leicestershire, are due to give evidence in the libel trial against Mr Amaral, who headed the initial investigation into their daughter's disappearance which led to the couple being named as suspects.

Instead, Dave Edgar, a private investigator hired by the family to search for Madeleine and Michael Wright, husband of Mrs McCann's cousin Anne-Marie, will tell the hearing how Mr Amaral's "poisonous lies" have nearly destroyed the family.

Libel and hearsay, which must be disregarded by the Court.
However, Mrs McCann made a last minute decision to attend the first day of the civil case and is expected to give a statement outside court.

Despite not wanting a media circus, or a platform. And that it will be unhelpful to "the Yard".
A source close to the couple said yesterday: "She doesn't particularly want to see again the man who has heaped so much extra pain on her family. But her lawyers felt that one of Madeleine's parents, if not both, should be there in person. Kate agreed to go while Gerry is busy working and looking after the twins. She is not expected to be giving evidence but will be sitting in the court room." The McCanns, who are both 45, were finally cleared in July 2008, when the Portuguese police investigation was shelved for lack of evidence.

Why go there, then?
He's taking them to the hospital with him? How appropriate.
But the following month, Mr Amaral who was sacked from the investigation and has since left the police force, published a book accusing them of faking their daughter's abduction to cover up her death in the apartment.

In 2010, they won a court battle in Lisbon to ban sales of the book entitled "The truth of the Lie", a ruling that was overturned later that year.

Mr McCann, a heart specialist and Mrs McCann, a former GP, are now seeking damages for themselves and their twins, Sean and Amelie plus further damages for the harm caused to the search for Madeleine, who would now be ten years old.

In a 36-page writ, first lodged in June 2009, they describe Mr Amaral as a self obsessed, manipulative money-grabber and accuse him of libel and breaching their human rights.

It takes one to know one, I suppose.

In July Scotland Yard announced a full-scale investigation into the girl's disappearance after identifying 38 potential new suspects and said they had requested assistance from Portugal's Policia Judiciaria.

Really? Not merely 38 persons who might have something interesting to say?

A team of 37 detectives has spent the last two years examining thousands of documents, witness statements and evidence reports as part of a government funded review of the case ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Yet they haven't found Maddie either, and I can't see them managing it any time soon. Will the fragrant Kate be suing them, too, for saying that Maddie "might be alive but then again, she might be dead"???

LJC wrote:A source said: "Because of the sensitivity of the situation, police don't want the McCanns anywhere near the country because they fear it could turn into a media circus.

The Met police are worried it will create a bigger platform for Mr Amaral and his supporters to spout more bile and could damage their own inquiries in the country."

This is not how a Police source would speak.  

Now whilst I agree the Police may not want the McCanns, either or one of them, to be present at the trial, I doubt somehow they would use wording such as those used by this source.

The Police like to listen to both sides in an investigation and often people can trip themselves up, so a true and thorough Police investigation would be keen to hear anything Mr Amaral has to say, just to see if they can dissect it and use it against him.