What? The claim is that the English police sent the info to the PJ, for THEM to investigate, so it should have been a PJ investigation, which would have meant Amaral would have been bound by judicial secrecy, no?
He should have been charged and prosecuted. But they did the next best thing when they totally humiliated him. Not only was he sacked from the case - he was demoted and transferred. A very bitter pill to swallow for which he blamed the McCanns and which has stoked a vendetta against them which he will take with him to the grave.
I always thought he jumped before he was pushed because of the torture case - I now think that metaphorically having his epaulettes ripped off and his sabre broken, left him with no alternative.
He's certainly had an interesting time in the train crash of his life. Cristovao managed to pen a book which didn't entail spending years in the libel courts (which was just as well because he wouldn't have had the time between his hearings in the criminal courts) but Amaral wasn't bright enough to write a book which wouldn't arrive ultimately at the ECHR.
But it has all gone terribly sour for him yet again particularly as he seems to be a lone voice in his latest prank.