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Sunday 17 January 2010

Maddy McCann cop adds insults to injury

If, as has been suggested in Portugal, there was a “media circus” around the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, then it is the Portuguese police who are the clowns. Cruel, stupid, spiteful clowns. You would never guess it but Kate and Gerry McCann are not actually on trial in Lisbon. Madeleine’s parents have brought legal action against detective Goncalo Amaral, who they accuse of libelling them in his book, Maddie: The Truth Of The Lie. But the Portuguese plods have used the libel case to declare open season on the McCanns. One former policeman, Francisco Moita Flores, told the court that only the ­“distraction” of the “media circus” prevented the McCanns from being charged with negligence. “No one believed it was an abduction,” he told the court. “It was a fairytale, a fable.” But if Madeleine was not abducted, then what happened? The Portuguese police were shown up as a bunch of clueless amateurs by the Madeleine case, and – shamed, embarrassed, infuriated – they turned their rage on the McCanns. (Daily Mirror)