A libel trial will start today of a former senior Portuguese detective who published a book alleging that Madeleine McCann died inside her parents' apartment.
Kate and Gerry McCann launched legal action against Goncalo Amaral after he publicly questioned their accounts of what happened to their daughter.
The couple, both 41, from Rothley, Leicestershire, flew to Lisbon yesterday ahead of the three-day trial at the main civil court in the Portuguese capital.
The "McCanns said their main motive for challenging Mr Amaral was to further the search for their daughter". So, they expect to find Madeleine in the court room? The McCanns said: "All the court decisions we are trying to obtain are destined to prove Madeleine is alive and spread the information that her search is worthwhile". I fail to see how stopping people from expressing views contrary to the McCanns version of events is either a breach of the McCanns human rights, or likely to prove that Madeleine is alive. None of the searches have yet proved worthwhile because they are searching in the wrong places and for the wrong people. The findmadeleinefund is running low and the McCanns are only after Goncalo Amaral's money so that they can continue to pay for the wild goose chase that they send their private detectives on.
I hope that the Portuguese justice system rules against the McCanns and in favour of Goncalo Amaral and freedom of speech. A world where only what the McCanns said was gospel would be a sad world made of lies.
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