In Camera - Amaral seeks to have media excluded from libel trial.

[ferryman]

I told you it was my opinion that he gave all the money from the books away. My opinion cannot be funded.
Anyway he had to divorce his wife in order to protect her and his younger daughter when the McCann filed the claim against him.

When you think about a suffering couple whose daughter is missing you expect them to be selfish but not cruel to the point of disrupting the life of a young girl, as old as theirs.

When I think of Leonor Cipriano, tied to that chair with a bag over her head as she was beaten to a point of near blindness by those gentlemen officers of the PJ, under the command and direction of Goncalo Amaral, my eyes fill with tears ...

[Luz]

When I think of Leonor Cipriano, tied to that chair with a bag over her head as she was beaten to a point of near blindness by those gentlemen officers of the PJ, under the command and direction of Goncalo Amaral, my eyes fill with tears ...

Obviously you have been brainwashed.
Leonor Cipriano was never tied. She was interrogated in Faro in the presence of her attorney when she confessed the crime - as the law obligates. (The same law why the McCann had to be made arguidos in the presence of their lawyers).

She was attacked when she was admitted in the Ourique prison. You know, the other prisioners don't like women that kill children. At the time that she entered the prison the Director was away, when she shouldn't have.
[there is a rule that inmates that have armed children must be kept apart, this one was not]

When Leonor appeared all bruised up, 2 days after having been in Faro PJ Headquarters, the brilliant director sent Leonor to a doctor. The initial report was that the bruises were caused by recent battering. Anyway, the will to make the Director look innocent about this mess made the brilliant Dr. Marinho Pinto and some friends he could manipulate to attempt to implicate the Judiaciary Police.

Leonor couldn't recognize anyone in Court and she couldn't even decide which colour was the alleged plastic bag that they put over her head - I don't believe a victim would forget those things.

[icabodcrane]

When I think of Leonor Cipriano, tied to that chair with a bag over her head as she was beaten to a point of near blindness by those gentlemen officers of the PJ, under the command and direction of Goncalo Amaral, my eyes fill with tears ...

What on earth has that got to do with the post you were replying to  ?   ...   or to this thread at all   ?

There are other threads where you can weep for the woman convicted and currently serving a prison sentence for the murder and mutilation of a child

I do hope this thread will not be taken off course like so many others are

[ferryman]

What on earth has that got to do with the post you were replying to  ?   ...   or to this thread at all   ?

There are other threads where you can weep for the woman convicted and currently serving a prison sentence for the murder and mutilation of a child

I do hope this thread will not be taken off course like so many others are

Indeed what relevance (to this thread!) is there in Luz's reference to a dinner Amaral attended?

But it can all be linked together, with application of a modicum of common sense.

[Luz]

What on earth has that got to do with the post you were replying to  ?   ...   or to this thread at all   ?

There are other threads where you can weep for the woman convicted and currently serving a prison sentence for the murder and mutilation of a child

I do hope this thread will not be taken off course like so many others are

My dear, sometimes a camera has to widen its scope in order to grab reality - if that exists!

[Luz]

Indeed what relevance (to this thread!) is there in Luz's reference to a dinner Amaral attended?

But it can all be linked together, with application of a modicum of common sense.

Confess, you love me, don't you?    

[DCI]

It proves, at least that he was not using the money to pay his mortgage - he had one on his house just like the McCann.

Yes but he never paid his mortgage, did he. His house was repossessed, wasn't it?

[stephen25000]

Indeed what relevance (to this thread!) is there in Luz's reference to a dinner Amaral attended?

But it can all be linked together, with application of a modicum of common sense.

In cloud cuckoo land maybe.

[faithlilly]

Yes but he never paid his mortgage, did he. His house was repossessed, wasn't it?

Whereas the McCanns made sure that wouldn't happen to them by using the search fund.

[John]

Luz.  Please refrain from making derogatory comments in French. TY

[icabodcrane]

Why is Mrs Hubbard at the trial,  giving evidence about the devastation the McCanns suffered when Amaral published his book 

By that time the McCanns were back in Britain and the Hubbards had returned to Canada  ...  is that not correct

I understand that they may have kept in touch,  but surely this woman is not the one best placed to speak  for the McCanns  ?   

Why did they choose her as a witness when she did not even witness their distress in person  ? 

[Cudge]

Yes but he never paid his mortgage, did he. His house was repossessed, wasn't it?

Did he not also not pay his brother as well .  Man of honour indeed

[ferryman]

In cloud cuckoo land maybe.

Amaral's practises as coordinator of the Madeleine investigation fell short of the highest standards, a deficiency manifest in much else of his police work.

And Dr Amaral would prefer not to have that deficiency exposed in court.

Hence he asked that the libel trial be conducted in camera.

In some ways I (genuinely) regret that his request wasn't granted -- although for reasons nothing whatever to do with wishing to spare Amaral's blushes ...

[Angelo222]

I was under the impression that Amaral wanted all the publicity he could get from these hearings so if this is true it doesn't sit well with open and free disclosure.  Anne was supposed to be attending the hearing today so hopefully she will report back.

[Jean-Pierre]

Luz.  Please refrain from making derogatory comments in French. TY

I think that was the remark addressed to me, John.  In fairness to Luz, it was not even french - I think what she was perhaps trying to say was "démerdez-vous!", which is not derogatory.