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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2017 20:07:03 GMT
 The Portuguese detective who led the search for Madeleine McCann has promised to 'clean out' her grief-stricken parents by suing them for damaging his reputation.  Goncalo Amaral, 57, claimed in a book that Madeleine died at the McCann's holiday house in Praia da Luz and Kate and Gerry covered it up.  The McCanns won a libel case against Amaral in 2015, but this was overturned on appeal and that decision upheld in another court. This means Amaral is now able to sue the McCanns for damages potentially totalling tens of thousands of pounds. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2017 19:53:52 GMT
 A couple working at the Dolphin restaurant opposite the phone box contacted Portuguese detectives just after Madeleine went missing and made formal police statements. The woman said the “strange” man looked similar to a photofit of a suspect. That led Portugal’s public prosecutor to order all phone records for the call box to be checked in an effort to find the man, who has never been traced. The prosecutor made the order on the grounds that the man may have abducted or murdered the lost three-year-old. Madeleine disappeared from the family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in May 2007. Her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have vowed never to give up hope of finding her. Portuguese detectives, working closely with Scotland Yard, have prioritised fresh inquiries to identify the mystery caller and have been checking all calls made to and from the box in the days leading up to Madeleine’s abduction 10 years ago next month. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2017 20:02:29 GMT
Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have said they are still pursuing one significant line of inquiry.
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2017 20:16:11 GMT
 Police say they are pursuing a "critical" lead in the Madeleine McCann investigation. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said four potential suspects had been ruled out. But the new "significant lines of inquiry" are said to be of "great interest" to both the UK and Portuguese teams. It comes a week before the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance from a holiday apartment in Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 2007.  Asked if police were any closer to solving the case than they were six years ago when the UK investigation was launched, Mr Rowley said: "I know we have a significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing, and because it's worth pursuing it could provide an answer. "But until we've gone through it, I won't know whether we are going to get there or not. "Ourselves and the Portuguese are doing a critical piece of work and we don't want to spoil it by putting tit bits of information out publicly." |
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2017 19:18:18 GMT
Nearly a decade after the 3-year-old vanished, watch the CNN Special Report "Missing: Madeleine McCann," Friday, May 5, at 10 p.m. ET/PT to find out the latest on the search and investigation.
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