Page 338 in the hardback copy.
IMO British Consul Bill Henderson would have known about Amaral as the murder case of Michael Ahern was ongoing in the Algarve in the weeks prior to Madeleine's disappearance. Henderson was providing consular assistance for a UK citizen David Figueira - a case which involved a body in a freezer, a ballistics expert who couldn't determine if a gun had been fired & an autopsy at odds with the prosecutions version of events (yes, really).
Thank you.
p338 of 'madeleine'.
"Later the same month {May 2009}, Amaral was given an eighteen-month suspended prison sentence in connection with a case in which three of his officers were accused of torture. The mother and uncle of another missing child - eight-year old Joana Cipriano, who had disappeared in 2004 from a village from Praia da Luz - had been imprisoned for her murder, although no body has ever been found. They claimed they had been tortured into confessing (the police maintained that Sra Cipriano had fallen down the stairs). The officers concerned were cleared but the jury found that Amaral had falsified statements relating to the torture case. His conviction was upheld in the Supreme Court in March 2011. Joanna's mother is still in jail."
I am not going to get into a debate about the Joana Cipriano case, since there is a perfectly good sub-forum dedicated to that.
"It was a very close run thing for the McCanns who were no doubt aware of the Cipriano case." was Brietta's assertion.
Thus far, I have seen nothing that evidences this. They might or might not have been aware of it. Bill Henderson might or might not have informed them of it. They might or might not have heard of the Cipriano case from relatives/supporters in the UK.
I am not familiar the contents of Gerry's blog. Is there a reference to Joana Cipriano in that?
