AMARAL LIBEL TRIAL LATEST - PARENTS TO TELL COURT OF HEARTBREAK CAUSED BY DETECTIVE'S SMEARS

http://news.sky.com/story/1283299/mccanns-angry-as-libel-trial-is-delayed-again

McCanns Angry As Libel Trial Is Delayed Again

The parents of Madeleine McCann, Kate and Gerry, make an emotional statement on the steps of a Portuguese court.

The McCanns have described a delay to a libel trial against a Portuguese policeman which had been due to end as "cynical".

Kate and Gerry, the parents of Madeleine McCann, had been due to speak at the trial of former police chief Goncalo Amaral, who was accused of making defamatory statements about them in a book he wrote.

At the last minute, Mr Goncalo's lawyers submitted a letter to the court asking for a postponement.

The couple had been expected to deliver emotional statements in the trial of Mr Amaral, which they had been unable to do until the trial's end.

The McCanns claim Mr Amaral's 2008 book The Truth Of The Lie included allegations they had hidden Madeleine's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction which damaged the search for the missing girl and added to their anguish.

Madeleine went missing in May 2007 from the couple's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve and despite a worldwide hunt, she has never been found.

British and Portuguese police have been examining patches of ground in Praia da Luz in the last few weeks but have had no success.

Gerry McCann said: "Today is a blatant and cynical attempt to wear us down.

"The hearing has been cancelled once again at Mr Amaral's request. This is the fourth time that this has happened and we've travelled to Portugal.

"The legal case has been running now for five years and we want to get justice for Madeleine. It's Madeleine who is suffering. We are not going to give up. We are going to keep going."

Kate, her voice cracking with the strain as she was surrounded by the Portuguese media, added: "We need to make it clear to people that we took on this case because of the pain and distress that Mr Amaral has brought to us and our children.

"Every time he postpones the case like this it brings us more pain and distress. Every time we come here we have to make arrangements for our children to be looked after, we have to book flights, we have to book hotels, we have to take time off work.

"Mr Amaral apparently handed that letter in at nine o'clock this morning. That letter could have been handed in before we left the country. As Gerry said, can this be seen as anything but blatant and cynical?

"We just want justice. This is not fair."

In October, Mr McCann's sister Trish Cameron told the libel trial the couple's pain was "multiplied 100 times" by the book.

If the court rules against Mr Amaral, the McCanns could receive around £1m in damages.

It brings us more pain and distress every time we come here': Madeleine McCann's parents' fury as libel trial is halted after ex police chief they're suing sacks his lawyer
Kate McCann: 'It brings us more pain and distress every time we come here'
Parents speak out angrily after trial of Goncalo Amaral halted at last minute
The couple were due to give evidence over claims he made in his 2008 book
They're suing former police chief for libel over claims in The Truth Of The Lie
It suggests the McCanns hid her body after an accident and faked abduction
If successful, the pair from Rothley, Leicestershire, could win £1m damages
McCanns: 'Amaral is not the victim here' and say delay is part of his strategy
Gerry McCann: 'Remember Madeleine is completely innocent in all of this'

Yar Yellow ‏@YarYellow
10 days to find lawyers prepared to take on a lost cause. It ain't long enough. #McCann

Zora McCartney
Typical bloody smear tactics by the McCanns. A wrecking tactic by Amaral?? He doesn't NEED to wreck their case as it's flimsy as f*ck anyway! He has a right to legal representation that he feels entirely confident and comfortable with.

Kate and Gerry McCann criticise former police chief who led hunt for Madeleine
Gonçalo Amaral is causing us more pain, say parents of missing girl after he delays Portuguese libel action by sacking lawyers

Kate and Gerry McCann have criticised the former police officer who led the hunt for their missing daughter after he delayed their libel action against him again.

Kate McCann said every delay caused by Gonçalo Amaral, who sacked his legal team at the last minute, "causes us more pain and distress".

They are suing for libel over claims he made in his book The Truth of the Lie, and they travelled to Portugal to deliver personal statements on how accusations in the book were affecting them.

The McCanns were originally told they could not make statements to the long-running trial at Lisbon's Palace of Justice, but the decision was overturned after an appeal by their lawyer.

Outside the court in Lisbon, Gerry McCann said: "We're exasperated that the hearing has been cancelled once again at Mr Amaral's request. This is the fourth time this has happened and we've travelled to Portugal. The legal case has been running now for over five years and we want to get justice for Madeleine."

He added: "Today is a blatant and cynical attempt to wear us down and it's Madeleine who is suffering. We're not going to give up – we're going to keep going."

Kate McCann said: "We need to make it clear to people: we took on this case because of the pain and distress that Mr Amaral has brought to us and our children. And every time he postpones the case like this it brings us more pain and distress. Every time we come here we have to make arrangements for our children to be looked after, we have to book flights, we have to book hotels, we have to take time off work to come here.

"Mr Amaral handed that letter in at apparently around nine o'clock this morning. That letter could have been handed in before we left the country. And this has happened about four times. As Gerry said, this can't be seen as anything but blatant and cynical. We just want justice. This is not fair."

Gerry McCann said they would return, with the next hearing set for 8 July.

Madeleine, who was then nearly four, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on 3 May 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with friends.

Her parents say that claims in Amaral's 2008 book, including suggestions that they hid Madeleine's body after she died in an accident and they faked an abduction, damaged the hunt for their daughter and exacerbated their anguish. If successful, the family stands to gain around £1m in damages.

Last week the McCanns said the fact that police had found no evidence relating to their missing daughter during recent searches in Praia da Luz had reinforced their belief that she could still be alive

Nick ‏@xxxxxFernxxxxx 3h
@dienoctuque

To fire his lawyer at this stage cannot be considered as a 'masterstroke' in my opinion. #mccann

DT ‏@dienoctuque 3h
@xxxxxFernxxxxx working closely with his lawyer they would have had their defence worked out for weeks, why now at H hour?? #mccann

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To the Nesting Antis of Britain (Male & Female)
PostPosted by Truthiness2 » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:44 pm

I see, after this morning's childish antics by Amoral, that you are all thinking of donating more of your money to Amoral's 'Fighting' Fund - which should now be called Amoral's Can't Fight/Won't Fight Fund.

I know you are all in love with Amoral (the male antis especially) and therefore blind to certain faults, so I'll spell it out for you in simple terms.

Amoral doesn't need your money - he has a pile of money that's been frozen by the Court.

ALL HE NEEDS TO DO TO GET IT, IS FINISH THE TRIAL.

It's THAT simple.

So WHY won't he finish the trial and relieve his poverty?

Finish the trial = get your money.

As for amoeba Petermac:

It is Legal, and the firm involved specialise in doing this.
Only non-lawyers would call it cynical.
Lawyers would call it brilliant

ONLY if they were defending a guilty man and delaying the inevitable guilty verdict, you eejit.

Nicola Edwards I think he has stopped it on purpose I think they going to get arrested trust me lol at the airport  

Nicola Edwards boils my piss too lol

Ms Muddle ‏@Justmuddling 1h
Is Amaral still on the books with Portugal police, this tooing and froing cant be that stressfree for him either, strategic delays? #mccann

Joana Morais ‏@xklamation 3h
#mccann gave press statement outside court, no comments on Luz searches  

justme ‏@zante03 3h
@FixitpcKeith maybe Amaral cld pull out the ace he supposedly has and get justice for Madeleine #mccann ? oh wait, he's a professional tit

PeterMac

It is Legal, and the firm involved specialise in doing this.
Only non-lawyers would call it cynical.
Lawyers would call it brilliant

http://stopthemyths.prophpbb.com/post238707.html#p238707

carlymichelle

they wont admit it but today was a huge setback for mcann supporters and the mcanns imo i heard it was also because maddie is a ward of court and that they were told that they cant sue on maddies behalf?? and they didnt have the documents etc

DT ‏@dienoctuque 3h
@glitter_brain @TeddyShepherd this needs to be watertight, so PJ/SY can't show their hand yet. #mccann

wicatty ‏@wicatty009 3h
RT >>> #mccann URGENT URGENT MESSAGE  Anyone found Amarals "Honour & Integrity" yet ?

It's in the same place as his fabled Ace - the Land of Make Believe.

Here's a thing - why didn't he play that Ace today? What with him having all that legal training *chuckle* he wouldn't have needed a lawyer, his Ace would have spoken for itself.

Big Rock Rocky A doesn't need no lawyer, no sirree!

Instead of playing that Ace, he chose to be the object of derision and mockery, as yet again, he ran away from a court sitting.

Literally, this time. Like a whimpering coward.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/madeleine-mccanns-parents-furious-and-distressed-by-fourth-libel-trial-delay-9540873.html

Madeleine McCann's parents furious and 'distressed' by fourth libel trial delay

Kate and Gerry McCann are suing Goncalo Amaral following claims he made about them in a 2008 book called The Truth Of The Lie
Rob Williams Monday 16 June 2014

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann today launched a furious attack on the former Portuguese police chief who led the search for their daughter for delaying a libel action against him.

Kate and Gerry McCann are suing Goncalo Amaral following claims he made about them in a 2008 book called The Truth Of The Lie.

The couple had travelled to Portugal to deliver personal statements on how the accusations in the book were affecting them.

Mr and Mrs McCann were originally told they could not make statements to the long-running trial at Lisbon's Palace of Justice, but the decision was overturned after an appeal by their lawyer.

However, a 10-day adjournment to the libel trial was granted after Mr Amaral sacked his legal team at the last moment. It is the fourth such delay in the now five-year trial.

Speaking outside the court the couple told reporters that the delay of the trial was exasperating and caused them "more pain and distress". The couple also said there was still a "good chance" that Madeleine was still alive.

Madeleine, who was nearly four when she went missing, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on May 3 2007 as her parents dined at a nearby restaurant with friends.

The McCanns' case is that the false allegations in Mr Amaral's 2008 book, including suggestions that they hid Madeleine's body after she died in an accident and faked an abduction, damaged the hunt for their daughter and exacerbated their anguish.

If successful the family stand to gain around £1 million in damages.

The McCanns' return to Portugal comes after they said last week that the fact police found no evidence relating to their missing daughter during recent searches in Praia da Luz had reinforced their belief that she could still be alive.

Speaking today the parents expressed their anger at the further delay in the case: "We're exasperated that the hearing has been cancelled once again at Mr Amaral's request.

"This is the fourth time this has happened and we've travelled to Portugal.

"The legal case has been running now for over five years and we want to get justice for Madeleine.

"Today is a blatant and cynical attempt to wear us down and it's Madeleine who is suffering.

"We're not going to give up - we're going to keep going."

Clearly angry and upset, Mrs McCann said: "We need to make it clear to people: we took on this case because of the pain and distress that Mr Amaral has brought to us and our children.

"And every time he postpones the case like this it brings us more pain and distress.

"Every time we come here we have to make arrangements for our children to be looked after, we have to book flights, we have to book hotels, we have to take time off work to come here.

"And Mr Amaral handed that letter in apparently around nine o'clock this morning. That letter could have been handed in before we left the country.

"And this has happened about four times. As Gerry said, this can't be seen as anything but blatant and cynical. We just want justice. This is not fair."

Mrs McCann said Mr Amaral was trying to deny Madeleine the "human right" to be looked for and found, adding that the detective was "not the victim in this".

Mr McCann said Madeleine "is completely innocent in all of this, this is what it's about, an innocent child who is missing".

When asked what he would say to Mr Amaral, Mr McCann said curtly: "We are not speaking to Mr Amaral."

The latest delay in the case comes as Mr Amaral made more outlandish claims today about Madeleine's disappearance in an interview with Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha and its sister TV channel CMTV.

The McCanns said they would return to Portugal for the next hearing, which has been scheduled for July 8th.

Hounder:

I really hope Goncalo Amaral has an ace up his sleeve. It will be too unbearable if this does not go his way.

MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA           

What has to happen for it to sink in?

Rachel Granada wrote:Well what a surprise that Slimy Pebble... oops sorry Big Rock, has chickened out yet again.

What's the Portuguese for "coward"?

Sykes wrote:

Rachel Granada wrote:Well what a surprise that Slimy Pebble... oops sorry Big Rock, has chickened out yet again.

What's the Portuguese for "coward"?  

covarde

Rachel Granada wrote:

Sykes wrote:

Rachel Granada wrote:Well what a surprise that Slimy Pebble... oops sorry Big Rock, has chickened out yet again.

What's the Portuguese for "coward"?  

covarde

Thanks Sykes.

Maybe if Portugal get knocked out of the World Cup it may upset the little love so much that he'll be unable to find another lawyer in time.

Goncalo Amaral - covarde.

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Amaral has more than likely been misled by his supporters. No doubt he was told that ward of the court status meant the mccanns did not have legal custody of Madeleine and so could not take action in her name, and that after seven years she would be declared dead. Now he has delayed and delayed,and at the last moment pulled a stunt to try to delay the inevitable. His lawyer probably told him the bad news regarding the WOC status and law regarding declaration of death and he has had a hissy fit. But at least his supporters are being loud and proud about donating so the judge can be informed he has been given funds.

The good news for amaral is that if anyone has told him they have expert legal knowledge regarding UK law and WOC status etc and he has been mislead by this person to his detriment he might well have a pretty good case for sueing them and shifting the blame onto them.

Luís Maia [SIC reporter/LM] - Good afternoon, this was a morning full of surprises. First we learned that Gonçalo Amaral had revoked his lawyer's mandate, the lawyer that had defended him so far, Dr. Víctor Santos de Oliveira who spoke with us. Then all lawyers were in a meeting for several hours with the judge, to try to figure out what solution to give to this situation. The meeting lasted for quite a while, first there was a short session that lasted about 10 minutes, then followed another that lasted well over one hour. It was decided that today there wouldn't be any further proceedings. After, upon leaving the courtroom, Víctor Santos de Oliveira expressed his surprise for the decision of his client and said that this was not a strategy planned by the two of them. Let's watch the statements of Víctor Santos de Oliveira.

Luis Garriapa, another reporter from SIC TV channel [LG] - Was this a concerted decision?

Víctor Santos de Oliveira [VSO] - Absolutely not, it was not a concerted decision. I am not aware of the reasons that led to his decision but I presume that it was a decision essentially intimate from my client, basically a private matter that I don't know about, I don't have the slightest idea, however it's a decision that parties have the right to make at all times.

LG - Do you believe that it was a strategy to delay the trial?

VSO - No, I don't believe in that at all. That would be... A strategy like that would be a very ill thought strategy.

LG - Did you fall out with your client?

VSO - It has nothing to do with that, whatsoever, it's just a situation where my client has decided like that, on his own, it's his problem.

LG - Were you surprised by it?

VSO - Evidently. When a defence was already done, when there is a work done on this process, when we have accomplished milestones in the process namely the restitution of the book sales - which was achieved by this defence [meaning him], and also to successfully prove that the McCanns at the moment when they brought this action in their daughter's name, they could not have done it. Today that is more than completely established, it's obvious that his decision came as a surprise. One of the important milestones of this process, in my view, was - it wasn't one, but two - it was effectively to restitute the books so they could be sold, supported in the ruling of the Court of Appeals, that clearly states that the McCanns exposed themselves in the media by their own free will, thus becoming subject to the scrutiny of everyone. Thus it wouldn't make sense to ban the books. And there, the work of the defence was to put the books back on sale and that was fully achieved.

The second is related to a Ward of Court which means that who ultimately has the responsibility and the tutelage of the child is the English High Court. This fact was already known to the McCanns at the moment when they filled this lawsuit. It's a shame that this wasn't done immediately at start by the previous defence lawyer but now that is established and proven, so much so that there is an official decision which gives the McCanns 30 days to get the records of the English Court’s authorization under penalty of absolving the defendant Gonçalo Amaral on the request made on behalf of the missing child, the unfortunate Maddie McCann, obviously. But that is done, it's good...

LM - What is going to happen now?

VSO - ... When one leaves a process, and leaves things to be done that's not good ...

LM - [asks the same question again] What is going to happen now?

Another [unknown] reporter Was it a delaying strategy?

VSO - I don't believe that it was a delaying strategy. I really don't. I'm not even going to answer to a question formulated in that way, I don't believe it and I will not comment if it was a delaying strategy, I simply don't believe that.

LM - [asks the same question for the third time] What is going to happen now?

VSO - What's going to happen now is that the defendant Gonçalo Amaral has 10 days - following a decision based on equity and justice by the court - to appoint a new mandatory [lawyer] to represent him in the lawsuit, attach that information to the process record. Then, his declarations and the McCanns closing statements will be heard.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/gerry-kate-mccann-furious-claims-3707478

Kate and Gerry McCann told of their anguish after disgraced detective Goncalo Amaral threw yet more hurtful allegations at them.

The former police officer claimed the couple could have hidden their daughter Madeleine’s body inside the coffin of a woman, who was due to be cremated, in a church near where the three-year-old vanished.

And he today compounded their misery by sacking his lawyer moments before the pair arrived at his libel trial in Lisbon, delaying the hearing for a fourth time.

Kate said outside court: “Every time he postpones the case it brings us more pain and distress. We just want justice. This is not fair.”

Express:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/482703/Madeleine-McCann-s-parents-arrive-at-court-for-libel-trial-of-Portuguese-policeman

'We just want justice' Fury of Madeleine McCann's parents as £1m libel trial delayed

Kate and Gerry McCann have accused a former policeman for causing them "more pain and distress" after he delayed their libel action against him.?

Maybe MR Amaral sacked his lawyer because he should have known about the WOC issue in the early stages, not leaving Mr Amaral to find this out for himself.