
THE former police chief who led the hunt for Madeleine McCann in Portugal plans to sue parents Kate and Gerry for defamation.
Goncalo Amaral, 49, has hired a team of lawyers to prepare an action against the two doctors.
And the cop, dropped from the inquiry in October 2007 for criticising British police, says he will also seek damages from the McCann's spokesman Clarence Mitchell. His action comes weeks after the McCanns revealed they were suing Amaral over a book he wrote.
It claimed Madeleine, aged three when she disappeared in Praia da Luz in May 2007, died in an accident and her parents, both 40, concealed her death.
Amaral was found guilty recently of falsifying evidence in another missing child case.
The McCanns said: "Any legal action will be defended."
By Dominic Herbert, 07/06/2009
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Defamation case against Amaral is expected to reap the McCanns a six-figure compensation fee.
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The ex-inspector Gonçalo Amaral, who was responsible for the case of British girl Madeleine McCann, said Wednesday that it will terminate the child's parents and try to reopen the investigation into the mysterious disappearance, two years ago. Amaral was the chief of detectives responsible for investigating the disappearance of Madeleine on May 3, 2007, in southern Portugal, to resign, months later, without being able to prove the involvement of parents in the hypothetical girl.
The parents of Madeleine, Kate and Gerry McCann, who always denied any involvement with the disappearance of the girl, also expressed its intention last month to take Amaral to court due to allegations made against them in a book published last year.
In statements to the Portuguese newspaper "Daily News," Amaral said that in the fourth to examine the research done in 2007 for the case, filed in July 2008 for lack of evidence on the fate of Madeleine, is reopened.
"We need to discuss what was done and what is left to do," said the former inspector, who retired two years early, after renouncing his work in the Judicial Police.
Antonio Cabrita, one of the lawyers of former policeman, said the complaint against the couple McCann, who also include the spokesman of them, Clarence Mitchell, will be raised by accusations of slander and insult the good name of Amaral.
The former Portuguese inspector was sentenced on May 22, a year and a half, which will not have to meet - unless committing another crime - for falsehoods in a case related to the disappearance of an English girl in 2004. The sentence against Amaral, with his lawyers to appeal, was imposed by "Joana case, a girl of 8 years disappeared whose mother confessed, under alleged torture of several policemen, have it killed.
Meanwhile, if Madeleine is still a mystery two years after the disappearance of the girl's apartment by parents in Praia da Luz in the Algarve, where she slept with two other brothers minors. There was a turn when the couple of British doctors suspect was declared by the disappearance of her daughter.
However, McCann was relieved when the suspicions of Justice closed the English summary of the case on July 21, 2008, and rejected - for lack of evidence - the police's arguments, which pointed to an accidental death of the child and the blind body of parents.
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