Oh my, Is Anne telling porkies again?
http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/503/sociedade/goncalo-amaral-julgamento-mccann-maddie-psicologo-advogado/1489586-4071.htmlMaddie case: Psychologist and criminal lawyer testify in favor of the McCanns
Afternoon session was canceled
By: TVI24 | 09/13/2013 19:42
Only two witnesses, a psychologist and a criminal lawyer, were heard today in the second day of the trial of the civil case filed by the McCanns against former PJ inspector Gonçalo Amaral, after the afternoon session to be canceled. According to Isabel Duarte, the lawyer McCann,
canceling the hearing scheduled for the afternoon was due to a "personal problem" of Judge Maria Emilia Melo e Castro. The impediment is however temporary and does not compromise the progress of the trial. Isabel Duarte, the McCanns lawyer in a civil action for defamation against the former PJ inspector who investigated the disappearance of British child in Algarve (2007), said Lusa that due to this unforeseen with the judge, it was not possible for the court to hear the remaining three witnesses, all of them relatives of British couple.
With Kate McCann and the grandfather of missing girl sitting in the area for the public, the audience Morning served to hear an English psychologist who accompanied the twins Madeleine McCann, after the tragic disappearance of the child in an apartment hotel in Lagos, Algarve. heard The other witness was a criminal lawyer who helped the McCanns in an attempt to decipher the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann and who talked about the media impact that had on the public statements of England Gonçalo Amaral to involve parents in the child's disappearance. Isabel Duarte said that the next trial sessions are scheduled for 19, 20 and 27 September, continuing the 2:08 and ending October to 05 November.
According to the lawyer, Kate McCann will not testify at trial, despite the new Code of Civil Procedure provide for this right now, since the process has worked and prepared another assumption. Same goes with Gonçalo Amaral, which should not testify at trial. After previously, the parties have not reached an out of court settlement in the civil action, in which the parents of Madeleine McCann demanded a compensation of 1.2 million euros for alleged defamation of former PJ inspector, the trial began with the examination of three witnesses - a Canadian and two British - "friends" of the McCanns.
Speaking Thursday Lusa, Isabel Duarte said, from the beginning, the McCanns have always been open to a court settlement with Gonçalo Amaral, but it was not possible to reach an agreement with the defendant. He stressed, however, that the main objective of the McCanns was that the investigation into the disappearance the child was resumed, which, he said, has now taken place, without any further details or other clues. Ongoing related, 7. th Civil Court of Lisbon decided in January 2010 to keep the ban in book sales "Maddie: The Truth of the Lie", written by Goncalo Amaral, and video with the same title, based on a documentary aired on TVI.
Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, in an apartment of a tourist resort in Praia da Luz in the Algarve, where he was on holiday with her parents and twin brothers. At the time of the disappearance, Goncalo Amaral was the coordinator of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Judicial Police of Portimão. Kate and Gerry McCann, who always claimed that the child was abducted, were made defendants in September 2007. The case was dropped for lack of evidence, in July 2008, although prosecutors admit reopening if new data emerge about the child's disappearance.
