Isabel Duarte speaking outside the court today admitted that she had been unable to locate the funds which Mr Amaral has accrued following the release of his book and DVD etc.
He has effectively hidden them.
By the way John, about the monies from the book...
I've stated earlier that Amaral had given most of the money by the book to charity, and I maintain that. Fortunately he has written 2 other books, but in Portugal you cannot live on that.
I hope that he kept some of the book's money for him and his family. He had wife and children, one of which was Madeleine's age. He was a forced absent father to that child while looking for the one that the McCann left alone in the apartment (according to their statements).
He had a house to pay in Portimão that he had to give up once returned to Faro PJ headquarters in October 2007, the kids changing school again, the wife that had gotten a new job there was suddenly without her husband again, his whole family life falling apart, because he chose to do his job honorably.
When he felt he had to retire he faced the worst choice a portuguese public servant has to make. When you retire before you completed your time you receive a miserable pension. He probably got little over the minimum salary, that in Portugal wouldn't pay for a weeks rent of a social housing in the UK.
To see this action of the McCann against this man can only generate indignation.
