PORTUGAL / FILE: Former police investigator of Madeleine McCann case launches book

Record ID: 490885

  • Title: PORTUGAL / FILE: Former police investigator of Madeleine McCann case launches book
  • Date: 24th July 2008
  • Summary: (EU) LISBON, PORTUGAL (JULY 23, 2008) (REUTERS) COVER OF BOOK WRITTEN BY FORMER POLICE INVESTIGATOR OF THE MADELEINE MCCANN CASE GONZALO AMARAL "THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES" MADELEINE MCCANN PICTURE GONÇALO AMARAL PICTURE "1. The girl, Madeleine McCann, died in the apartment 5A of the Ocean Club resort in Vila da Luz on May 3, 2007 2. A simulation of abduction has occurred 3. Kate Healy and Gerald McCann are suspected of involvement in the hiding of the body of their daughter 4. The death may have been a result of a tragic accident 5. There are signs of negligence in care and safety of the children. VARIOUS OF BOOK DRAWING OF THE ROOM FROM WHERE MADELEINE DISAPPEARED PICTURE OF GERRY AND KATE MCCANN CHAPTER 14 "Parents provide first signs that the girl may be dead" BOOK
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  • Story Text: A book to be released in Lisbon on Thursday (July 24) says that British missing girl Madeleine McCann died inside the apartment from where she vanished on May 3 last year.
    The publication, written by former Portuguese police investigator of the case Goncalo Amaral, says among its conclusions that the abduction of the little girl was a simulation and that the death of the three-year-old toddler "may have been a result of a tragic accident ."
    Amaral was abruptly suspended from the inquiry last October after declaring the girl's parents Kate and Gerry McCann to be suspects.

    "Kate Healy and Gerald McCann are suspected of involvement in the hiding of the body of their daughter," he says in the book.
    Portugal's chief public prosecutor on Monday (July 21) dropped the case pending any new leads and cleared her parents of suspicion of involvement.
    Madeleine was nearly four when she vanished from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz as her parents dined in a tapas restaurant with friends nearby.
    Despite a huge police investigation and massive coverage in the Portuguese and British media, she has not been found.
    The third suspect in the case, Algarve property consultant Robert Murat, 34, received 600,000 pounds sterling in libel damages from four newspaper groups last week over "seriously defamatory" articles.
    Murat and the McCanns all strenuously deny any involvement in Madeleine's disappearance.
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