Those unfamiliar with the Madeleine McCann case may be forgiven for thinking that the above image is a still from the old Star Trek series, where Captain Kirk and Spock beam down to an unknown planet with three suns. They find a strange race of Siamese Twins who wear white, and consider morality an unfamilar and unnecessary trait. It’s the only episode in the entire 60’s series where James T Kirk fails to find anyone remotely attractive and desirable. In fact he finds this strange race so repugnant that it’s only Spock’s intervention that stops Kirk nuking the planet.The above image is of course Goncalo Amaral and his wife Sofia: It’s not often the wife of a policeman shoehorns herself into a missing child case, or any other case for that matter. Even Mrs Columbo managed to stay out of the limelight.
You may remember Sofia for her published letter to the mother of this missing child, where she boasts of her husband’s prowess in bed. In a more recent newspaper article she pleads poverty. No doubt she gave that interview from the passenger seat of her husband’s brand new Jaguar, bought with the profits from his book where he states Madeleine is dead and her parents were involved. The lack of evidence for such a claim didn’t seem to matter to him. But it seems to matter to the courts in Lisbon ... read more ...
