Re: McCanns to sue Goncalo Amaral Thread....

[Guest]

Must tell you that he continues to say that sadly this is only a thread
he will not be sue

They just stated on This Morning programme that they are suing him Paula - they stated the reasons were because what he is saying is detrimental to the search for Madeleine (nothing about what he's said about their involvement etc).

Thats so stupid. How can be be deterring people from looking for a child. Anyway sadly, she isnt alive and they know it better than anyone.

[pm]

Must tell you that he continues to say that sadly this is only a thread
he will not be sue

They just stated on This Morning programme that they are suing him Paula - they stated the reasons were because what he is saying is detrimental to the search for Madeleine (nothing about what he's said about their involvement etc).

at least here in Pt when you want to sue a person you don´t tell that before send the lawyer notification

knowing this by now will give time to Amaral to prepare his defense.

[Pabby]

Must tell you that he continues to say that sadly this is only a thread
he will not be sue

They just stated on This Morning programme that they are suing him Paula - they stated the reasons were because what he is saying is detrimental to the search for Madeleine (nothing about what he's said about their involvement etc).

at least here in Pt when you want to sue a person you don´t tell that before send the lawyer notification

knowing this by now will give time to Amaral to prepare his defense.

Paula, Team Mc seem to do everything arse backwards...

[pm]

Must tell you that he continues to say that sadly this is only a thread
he will not be sue

They just stated on This Morning programme that they are suing him Paula - they stated the reasons were because what he is saying is detrimental to the search for Madeleine (nothing about what he's said about their involvement etc).

at least here in Pt when you want to sue a person you don´t tell that before send the lawyer notification

knowing this by now will give time to Amaral to prepare his defense.

Paula, Team Mc seem to do everything arse backwards...

yesterday the commnets about this possible sue were: they are saying that will sue, but that will give Amaral and lawyers team time to prepare all the facts and files!

[Pabby]

Must tell you that he continues to say that sadly this is only a thread
he will not be sue

They just stated on This Morning programme that they are suing him Paula - they stated the reasons were because what he is saying is detrimental to the search for Madeleine (nothing about what he's said about their involvement etc).

at least here in Pt when you want to sue a person you don´t tell that before send the lawyer notification

knowing this by now will give time to Amaral to prepare his defense.

Paula, Team Mc seem to do everything arse backwards...

yesterday the commnets about this possible sue were: they are saying that will sue, but that will give Amaral and lawyers team time to prepare all the facts and files!

They seem to speak before they engage their brains....(my husband says I do this often )

[pm]

Must tell you that he continues to say that sadly this is only a thread
he will not be sue

They just stated on This Morning programme that they are suing him Paula - they stated the reasons were because what he is saying is detrimental to the search for Madeleine (nothing about what he's said about their involvement etc).

at least here in Pt when you want to sue a person you don´t tell that before send the lawyer notification

knowing this by now will give time to Amaral to prepare his defense.

Paula, Team Mc seem to do everything arse backwards...

yesterday the commnets about this possible sue were: they are saying that will sue, but that will give Amaral and lawyers team time to prepare all the facts and files!

They seem to speak before they engage their brains....(my husband says I do this often )

but that´s why in Pt no one believe yet they will sue!!!!!

[Susan]

Amaral sounds way too cool here

He's got something up his sleeve for sure

[Guest]

Voice Over: The RTP [state TV channel] questioned Gonçalo Amaral, who was on his way to another meeting with officers of the British Police, who also follow the Maddie case. The reaction of the Former Judiciary Police Inspector is to counter attack.

Gonçalo Amaral: We were expecting that they did something, they did it now. So, it's the right time to advance with a countersuit, to discuss the Maddie process itself; we must not forget, there are various diligences to be made.

Voice Over: The McCann Family decided to sue Gonçalo Amaral for defamation. The legal action is going to be made in Lisbon, it's based on what the former inspector reveals on the book 'Maddie, The Truth of the Lie', published in 2008.

Gonçalo Amaral: We are also going to court in another way, I'm going to proceed legally against the McCann for defamation, and also for slanderous denunciations and false statements.

Voice Over: Already this year, the McCann family made in Praia da Luz a documentary for TV, which pretends to be the counterpoint of the thesis presented in the book by Gonçalo Amaral - of the accidental death of the girl at the Lagos apartment.




By Joana Morais


http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/05/goncalo-amaral-countersues-mccann.html

Voice Over: The RTP [state TV channel] questioned Gonçalo Amaral, who was on his way to another meeting with officers of the British Police, who also follow the Maddie case.


BRITISH POLICE? Is this a eureka moment?

[lynn]

The world is a small place in case the McCanns don't know this. There is the internet, television, etc. What would be broadcast in another country will be seen in America and elsewhere. It could be published in Australia, The McCanns should have kept quiet like they were doing, let the book come out, then take whatever action they consider necessary.It does look as if the book has something in it that the McCanns don't want the public to read. Amaral would have all his notes anyway to publish later on.

[Guest]

What interesting is that SKy have actually left the discussion open after this news article, I've just had a quick look and there must be over 70 posts on there (gave up after this!) and I'd say 95 percent of them are backing Amaral.

[Krisy22]

" I want to see the Mccanns in court " is top of the most searched list on Sky.

[Guest]

That is such good news about the reaction on Sky. It just shows that despite all the gagging and bullying, ordinary, common sense people know something about this case isn't right and they want to find out the truth.

Suppressing information just makes people more curious and when that suppression involves the disappearance of a 3 year old child, emotions and the determination to find out what happened to her are unstoppable.

[Guest]

I for one will buy his book! All banned books are worth reading.

The funny thing is. Its not banned at all. Its just the Macs trying to stop it being sold. They might be able to control the bookshops in the UK selling it but they cant control it being sold in any other countries or on the net.

[lynn]

I for one will buy his book! All banned books are worth reading.

The funny thing is. Its not banned at all. Its just the Macs trying to stop it being sold. They might be able to control the bookshops in the UK selling it but they cant control it being sold in any other countries or on the net.

How interesting. Well, its a lost cause then if the book can be sold elsewhere. Will just have to wait until it comes to Australia and New Zealand. Why are the McCanns wasting precious money and time on Mr Amaral is puzzling. Actually, the couple are wasting time which could be spent better looking for their daughter.

[Susan]

By Dominic Herbert, 07/06/2009

THE former police chief who led the hunt for Madeleine McCann in Portugal plans to sue parents Kate and Gerry for defamation.

Goncalo Amaral, 49, has hired a team of lawyers to prepare an action against the two doctors.

And the cop, dropped from the inquiry in October 2007 for criticising British police, says he will also seek damages from the McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell. His action comes weeks after the McCanns revealed they were suing Amaral over a book he wrote.

It claimed Madeleine, aged three when she disappeared in Praia da Luz in May 2007, died in an accident and her parents, both 40, concealed her death.

Amaral was found guilty recently of falsifying evidence in another missing child case.

The McCanns said: "Any legal action will be defended."

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/346644/Maddie-Former-police-chief-Goncalo-Amaral-who-led-the-hunt-for-Madeleine-McCann-in-Portugal-plans-to-sue-parents-Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-for-defamation.html

[Guest]

By Dominic Herbert, 07/06/2009

THE former police chief who led the hunt for Madeleine McCann in Portugal plans to sue parents Kate and Gerry for defamation.

Goncalo Amaral, 49, has hired a team of lawyers to prepare an action against the two doctors.

And the cop, dropped from the inquiry in October 2007 for criticising British police, says he will also seek damages from the McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell. His action comes weeks after the McCanns revealed they were suing Amaral over a book he wrote.

It claimed Madeleine, aged three when she disappeared in Praia da Luz in May 2007, died in an accident and her parents, both 40, concealed her death.

Amaral was found guilty recently of falsifying evidence in another missing child case.

The McCanns said: "Any legal action will be defended."

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/346644/Maddie-Former-police-chief-Goncalo-Amaral-who-led-the-hunt-for-Madeleine-McCann-in-Portugal-plans-to-sue-parents-Kate-and-Gerry-McCann-for-defamation.html

I hope he sues their lying arses off.

[Guest]

This is great news and good to see it reported in the UK press.

[Krisy22]

This is great news and good to see it reported in the UK press.

I agree Justagran and not before time. Lets hope all the British press follow suit.

[Guest]

The McCanns said: "Any legal action will be defended."

What a weak comment compared to whats was said about hoping to gain a million on the other thread

[Guest]

I hope he sues them and they are s**t scared!

[Guest]

at least its been reported now in the uk media that he will take counter legal action

[Guest]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/12/torn-apart-by-his-lies-115875-21513151/


TORN APART BY HIS LIES

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By Tom Worden 12/07/2009

EXCLUSIVE: MADDIE PARENTS SUE COP FOR £1M BOOK PROFITS

Kate and Gerry McCann are suing the police chief who bungled the investigation into their daughter's disappearance - and blamed them for her death - for £1million.

In a 36-page writ handed to the Sunday Mirror, they lay bare in painful detail how Gonçalo Amaral's accusations left them "totally destroyed" and caused them "irreparable" damage.

It also gives a harrowing insight into the day-to-day life in the McCann household as they struggle to cope without Madeleine.

The writ - which the Sunday Mirror has had translated from Portuguese - outlines how the couple both suffer from "permanent anxiety, insomnia, lack of appetite, irritability and an indefinable It also says Kate McCann is "in a deep and serious depression".

'Disgraced former police Amaral has pocketed £ 1million writing a lurid book and making documentary full of cruel about Madeliene and her And now they are suing him every penny of it.

He accuses them of accidentally killing their three-year-old daughter and then covering up her death.

Amaral, who was thrown off case after five months, repeatedly claimed Madeleine in the holiday apartment on Algarve. In his book The About The Lie he spouts his theory that the couple hid daughter's body.

The lawsuit also highlights fears for four-year-old twins and Amelie when they start later this year and begin to hear rumours that Madeleine is dead.

And it accuses Amaral of being a self-obsessed, manipulative money-grabber with no morals.

The couple, both 41, have hired Portuguese lawyer Isabel Duarte to sue Amaral for defamation and for breaching their human rights. Mrs Duarte, 54, said: "Somebody has to stop him and shut him up. He is a rich man now, earning millions from the distress of this family. We believe he has made up to 1.2million euros (£1million) from the book and the video. We want the court to punish him by taking at least that much from him."

The McCanns have a good case for defamation as they have already been cleared by Portugal's Attorney General. The case will go to trial in Lisbon next summer and Amaral, 49, could force the McCanns to take the stand. Madeleine is named with Kate and Gerry and the twins as a complainant in the lawsuit, lodged on June 24.

The McCanns, both doctors from Rothley, Leics, claim Amaral's repeated insistence that their daughter is dead has stopped people looking for her. The lawsuit states: "Madeleine has been deprived of the possibility of a fair and adequate investigation into her disappearance, putting her moral and physical integrity at serious risk."

It says Gerry and Kate have been "totally destroyed from a moral, social, ethical, emotional and family point of view, beyond the pain that the absence of their eldest daughter causes them".

The couple want a minimum of £430,000 in damages for Madeleine, which will be used to keep the search for her going. They also want a minimum of £215,000 each for them, and another £86,000 each for the twins. It is thought any money they get will go to the Maddie fund.

Amaral's book has sold around 330,000 copies worldwide. The fatherof-three has become a celeb in Portugal, and has a new Jaguar.

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The McCanns say his "sole objectives" in writing the book were "to earn a lot of money", using "lies". It says the book and his 50-minute documentary, which has been shown twice on Portuguese TV, are "manipulative, perverse, false, destructive, defamatory, deeply damaging and therefore illegal".

Amaral was in charge of the 30 detectives looking for Madeleine after she vanished in May 2007 on a family holiday in Praia da Luz.

He was largely responsible for making the McCanns "arguidos" - suspects - four months after Madeleine vanished. But he was kicked off the case in October 2007 days after the Sunday Mirror revealed he was working as little as four hours a day and was enjoying long, boozy lunches.

He was removed from the case on his 48th birthday. Amaral took early retirement shortly afterwards, ending 27 years on the force.

He began writing his book, promoting it by travelling around Europe giving newspaper interviews.

It went on sale in a blaze of publicity in July last year - three days after the McCanns' "arguido" status was removed. Earlier this month Amaral was charged with torturing a witness during a separate missing child case. He faces jail if convicted.

WHAT THEY ARE DEMANDING

£430,000 damages for Madeleine which will be used to continue the search for her.

£215,000 for each parent for the emotional distress the book has caused them. They say they suffer 'permanent anxiety, insomnia, lack of appetite, irritability and an indefinable fear'. The writ also says Kate McCann is 'steeped in a deep and serious depression'.

£86,000 for each of their twins Sean and Amelie, who could hear his allegations when they start school in September.

HOW HE MADE HIS MONEY

£500,000 from the book which has sold 180,000 copies in Portugal alone.

£430,000 from the extra 150,000 books which have been sold in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland.

£100,000 for a TV documentary watched by one in five people in Portugal - 75,000 copies have sold on DVD.

[lynn]

Mr Amaral will have his day in court and that is what he wants. Hope he has plenty of questions on hand and puts the McCanns on the spot. Never give up do they!

[Angelina]

Mr Amaral will have his day in court and that is what he wants. Hope he has plenty of questions on hand and puts the McCanns on the spot. Never give up do they!

This is going to be interesting.

Didn't he say he would counter sue? Even more interesting if it happens.

[lynn]

What gall the McCanns have in stating what they are suing for. They have brought all that upon themselves. If they were so cut up about Madeleine's disappearance, why do the rounds of TV shows. That would be stressful in itself. The family that lost Daniel Morcombe are so lost and even when on TV everyone's heart goes out to them. It will be interesting in that court.

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