The McCann v Gonçalo Amaral libel trial as it happens.

[faithlilly]

oh dear

...  now the Judge is 'out to get'  the McCanns too  ?

The whole of Portugal is Icabod , surely everyone knows that !

[AnneGuedes]

I don't know how to send them bigger. This one doesn't need it.
Poor Mrs Healy was there as if she wasn't. The picture expresses this.

[DCI]

oh dear

...  now the Judge is 'out to get'  the McCanns too  ?

It wouldn't be the first time a judge had been got at. Remember the first one?

[DCI]

Can you believe it?

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 3h
After trial adjourned Amaral reveals he, like Gerry #McCann, has applied to the judge to give evidence

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 3h
Asked how #McCann libel trial was going Amaral said: ``There's a saying in Portugal that you only give forecasts at the end of the game.''

[sadie]

I don't know how to send them bigger. This one doesn't need it.
Poor Mrs Healy was there as if she wasn't. The picture expresses this.

Who is that Anne/  Is it Kates Mum?

Gawd you are having a downpour aren't you?

[DCI]

Susan doesn't look like she was there as if she wasn't, here.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2441552/Madeleines-parents-pain-losing-multiplied-100-times-police-chiefs-book-court-hears-father-expresses-disappointment-evidence.html#ixzz2gbApkMA9

[icabodcrane]

Can you believe it?

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 3h
After trial adjourned Amaral reveals he, like Gerry #McCann, has applied to the judge to give evidence

Jerry Lawton ‏@JerryLawton 3h
Asked how #McCann libel trial was going Amaral said: ``There's a saying in Portugal that you only give forecasts at the end of the game.''

This  is interesting 

I wonder which of them was first to express a desire to take the stand

I have to say,  in Gerry's case it all seemed a bit of a disoraganised last minute mess

Could it be that having discovered that Amaral was intending to give testimony,  he  (  Gerry  )  felt he,  too,  would  'have'  to take the stand    ?   ( it would explain what appeared to be a last minute change of direction in the McCann  plan of action  ) 

[Lyall]

Madeleine's parents pain at losing her was 'multiplied 100 times' by police chief's book >@@(*&)

So over the top it's gone Brass Eye now.

[Victoria]

This  is interesting 

I wonder which of them was first to express a desire to take the stand

I have to say,  in Gerry's case it all seemed a bit of a disoraganised last minute mess

Could it be that having discovered that Amaral was intending to give testimony,  he  (  Gerry  )  felt he,  too,  would  'have'  to take the stand    ?   ( it would explain what appeared to be a last minute change of direction in the McCann  plan of action  )

More likely that Amaral is playing catch up.

[icabodcrane]

More likely that Amaral is playing catch up.

Could be

It just seems  that there is something of    'being on the back  foot'  about the McCanns at this point

Another bad day for them at court today  ...  what with having a witness deemed as unacceptable by the Judge as a result of a cock-up by Duarte

[sadie]

This  is interesting 

I wonder which of them was first to express a desire to take the stand

I have to say,  in Gerry's case it all seemed a bit of a disoraganised last minute mess

Could it be that having discovered that Amaral was intending to give testimony,  he  (  Gerry  )  felt he,  too,  would  'have'  to take the stand    ?   ( it would explain what appeared to be a last minute change of direction in the McCann  plan of action  )

You always seem to see things in a twisted way, Icabod.

Why is that?

[icabodcrane]

You always seem to see things in a twisted way, Icabod.

Why is that?

Because I see things differently to you, sadie,  does not mean that it is my perspective that is  'twisted' 

[Victoria]

Could be

It just seems  that there is something of    'being on the back  foot'  about the McCanns at this point

Another bad day for them at court today  ...  what with having a witness deemed as unacceptable by the Judge as a result of a cock-up by Duarte

Personally, I don't think it would make a lot of difference whether either of them give evidence, but who knows? I would certainly think that from Amaral's point of view, there is not a lot he could say that his lawyers couldn't say on his behalf.

[stephen25000]

Kate's mother was not able to to speak at the trial because of a mistake by the McCann lawyer  ?

Is that correct  ?

Affirmative.

[icabodcrane]

Personally, I don't think it would make a lot of difference whether either of them give evidence, but who knows? I would certainly think that from Amaral's point of view, there is not a lot he could say that his lawyers couldn't say on his behalf.

Yes,  we pretty much know everything Gerry is likely to say on the stand  ...  but Amaral  ?

Intriguing

...  and at the very least it will put a stop to the silly  'Amaral is running scared'   posts