So no news of Amaral's appeal against the libel decision in favour of the McCanns, then?
Thought not ....
AH HERE IT IS...So no news of Amaral's appeal against the libel decision in favour of the McCanns, then?
Thought not ....
was there a libel case in Portugal?
IF there was a discision it would be to most peoples astonishment because I do no recall a libel case taking place.
The only court case I recall was for pursuit of money claimed by Kate n Gerry and in their three children's names, ( the fate of one was/is unknown).
They cliamed the books content hurt them and caused them ain and suffering. The judge did ask if it was worse than their child being missing and well, the answer was yes. make of that what you will.
However, the judgement was that some of the contents of the book would have caused some upset for the parents.
On that note it is worth remembering:
IF the parents are innocent of hiding their daughters body, they would quite rightly be raging beyond belief.
IF the parents did make their daughter disappear, they would be raging to be under suspicion because they tried so hard to hide /cover up their involvement; so either way they were going to be 'affected' by the book.
On another note: their reputation was in tatters in the eyes of many anyway, once the truth came out about their behaviour.
Now we have to look at the luvvies comments because they seem to be of the opinion that Amarals book content as indeed causing more pain than their daughters disappearance. Amaral proved that they enjoyed a 'celebrity lifestyle' which they would never have had if their daughter had not 'disappeared'... and to claim money on behalf of their 'missing' daughter saying his book affected her was/IS an abomination, and a measure of their greed and love of money. I would feel Their daughter's plight and their involvment of it ( leaving her alone every night) would have caused little Maddie much more pain- but the luvvies will no doubt disagree.