Gonçalo Amaral's wife writes to Kate McCann asking her to tell the truth!!

[Rachel Granada]

This case never ceases to amaze.  lt must be unprecedented that the wife of the coordinator in a child disappearance case feels she needs to send an open letter to the mother of that child on the basis of her criticism of his handling of the case.

She obviously blames the McCanns for her husband's premature removal from the case and subsequent failure to attain the post of superior coordinator.

Can you imagine the wife of DCI Redwood, for example, publishing a vile letter like this?  A letter deliberately designed to bring further pain to an already devastated Mum.  Leal is disgusting.

[stephen25000]

Having read through the mccann supporters 'views' on the letter, I can truly say they are disgusting comments.

Then you have the nerve to criticize others for lack of emotion and feelings as regards the Mccanns.

That is rank hypocrisy.

[Redblossom]

Can you imagine the wife of DCI Redwood, for example, publishing a vile letter like this?  A letter deliberately designed to bring further pain to an already devastated Mum.  Leal is disgusting.

Hold your horses hey Granada? What exactly was in it designed to bring pain? She wasnt even rude! less of the ranting and emotional blackmail hey? This line of the mother or father of a missing child being targetted is getting laborious when no one knows if they were involves or not......

Kate Mccann went on national Portuguese TV and said her husband as a person and as a professional was a disgrace! What did you expect? She defended her husband and outlined various reasons why he wasnt! what Kate Mccann had accused him of being. She had every right to do so, so less of the indignation! Hey? IMO it was a very good and measured letter!
 
 

[Luz]

Sofia Amaral wrote a very dignified letter addressed to a woman that instead of searching for her daughter was spending time giving interviews and parading like a movie star. While doing it, she forgot that she had told the world she had left her 3 babies alone in an apartment and instead called disgraced to the police inspector that was investigating the disappearance of her daughter.

Mrs. McCann behaved like a B****, and if it was me in Sofia's place I would have written a much more edgy message.


'Quem não se sente não é filho de boa gente» - portuguese proverb: those that do not resent do not come from good parents.

[Redblossom]

Sofia Amaral wrote a very dignified letter addressed to a woman that instead of searching for her daughter was spending time giving interviews and parading like a movie star. While doing it, she forgot that she had told the world she had left her 3 babies alone in an apartment and instead called disgraced to the police inspector that was investigating the disappearance of her daughter.

Mrs. McCann behaved like a B****, and if it was me in Sofia's place I would have written a much more edgy message.


'Quem não se sente não é filho de boa gente» - portuguese proverb: those that do not resent do not come from good parents.

[AnneGuedes]

Sofia Leal had just as much a right to write an open letter as Kate had to write her whingey, whiney, cringing book, "Madeleine". You people here criticising the letter are a truly venomous and nasty lot.

It should better be compared to the letter to Inspector Rebelo, a letter that had no answer as well.

[AnneGuedes]

Hold your horses hey Granada? What exactly was in it designed to bring pain? She wasnt even rude! less of the ranting and emotional blackmail hey? This line of the mother or father of a missing child being targetted is getting laborious when no one knows if they were involves or not......

Kate Mccann went on national Portuguese TV and said her husband as a person and as a professional was a disgrace! What did you expect? She defended her husband and outlined various reasons why he wasnt! what Kate Mccann had accused him of being. She had every right to do so, so less of the indignation! Hey? IMO it was a very good and measured letter!
 

At least the twins will never be scared reading a curse of Mr Amaral on their mother wishing her "to be miserable and feel fear", as Mr Amaral's little daughter will if one day she finds "Madeleine" in a bookshop.

[Redblossom]

At least the twins will never be scared reading a curse of Mr Amaral on their mother wishing her "to be miserable and feel fear", as Mr Amaral's little daughter will if one day she finds "Madeleine" in a bookshop.

Yea indeed Kate Mccann cursed people who tried to solve a case and find her kid as a good catholic does but forgives the abductor, insane or what

[Benice]

At least the twins will never be scared reading a curse of Mr Amaral on their mother wishing her "to be miserable and feel fear", as Mr Amaral's little daughter will if one day she finds "Madeleine" in a bookshop.

I think Kate McCanns words were mild considering the circumstances.   If I was Amaral I would be more concerned about how to explain his criminal conviction to his daughter when that time arrives.   That's one thing he can't blame on the McCanns.

[Sherlock Holmes]

At least the twins will never be scared reading a curse of Mr Amaral on their mother wishing her "to be miserable and feel fear", as Mr Amaral's little daughter will if one day she finds "Madeleine" in a bookshop.

Your post just got me thinking, Anne.

What about the potential damage to the twins that could be caused by reading 'Madeleine'?

Or watching Gerry and Kate McCann in one of their many interviews - no 'Dr' Amaral in sight?

Couldn't the twins be damaged by the topics under discussion -or by Kate's graphic descriptions? Will the McCanns, chez McCann, be banning their own book?

[Sherlock Holmes]

Open letter to Mrs Kate Healy

 Dear Madam,

You will forgive my boldness, but after I read your comment (in an interview to Expresso newspaper) concerning Gonçalo Amaral, my husband and the father of my daughters, I cannot avoid sending you these words of gratefulness. For many years, I have been trying to make myself heard in this sentiment that unites us both: "…as a professional and as a person his behaviour has been a disgrace." Look at it closely:

a) Professionally

 - As a Coordinator of Criminal Investigation for the Polícia Judiciária, my husband has always refused to sit around from 9 to 5 in the comfortable chair in his office, as his hierarchical status implies. Instead, he spent the day (and very often, the night) with the investigators on the terrain, coordinating searches, surveillances, apprehensions and other diligences 'in loco'. A disgrace!

But if it was only the fact that he was subject to the weather, it wouldn't be serious, as our climate is not too bad, as you know. The problem is that this dedication to the cause has earned him a non promotion in his career. Indeed, I will explain this to you, even because this case happened when the searches for your daughter were under way. My husband applied to the category of Superior Coordinator, and in between drug apprehensions, sequestrations and homicides, he somehow managed to produce a thesis about drug trafficking by sea, which he defended in Lisbon, in front of a Jury that congratulated him. Full of hope, Gonçalo Amaral returns to the Algarve and awaits the result. To his surprise, he was passed over by other colleagues (real coordinators, truth be told), because he had not been able to score points in the "professional formation" parameter. That's right, Mrs Kate, my husband spent his life working, involved in complex investigations, he was the man who apprehended the highest volumes of drugs in Portugal, but given the fact that he had no time to go to Lisbon to parade himself up and down the corridors of the PJ's Institute, he was not promoted. A disgrace, madam, a disgrace!

 - As you probably know, even because you seem like a very well informed person to me, my husband's salary was less than 1.5 times the lowest salary in your country. But as a wife, as a mother and as a Portuguese citizen, I can't complain, because Gonçalo Amaral's salary was equal to 4.5 times the lowest salary in Portugal. But pay attention to the following, which is an example of what I'm going to explain next: At some point, an individual shoots a member of the PSP [urban police] and flees into neighbouring Spain. A PJ team follows him, including my husband. They stayed there for over two weeks. Now at that time, the international expense coverage was around 100 euros. As you can easily imagine, it's not possible to sleep and eat in Spain with this amount of money, much less shortly before Christmas and taking into account that the value will only be paid at around Easter time (if one's lucky). But Gonçalo Amaral never refused, not even for one day, to search for the escaped murderer, relaying the expenses onto our family accounts. And this is just one example among many. At some point in time, I suggested that we should create a fund or something similar to deal with these extraordinary expenses, but he never listened to me. You see, we also have mortgages to pay around here… A disgrace, Mrs Kate, a disgrace!

b) As a person, his behaviour has also been a disgrace, because to begin with we could never distinguish that he even had a personal life, due to the manner in which he dealt with the profession that he embraced. But if my good friend Mrs Kate allows me, I can offer you some examples:

- 5 years ago, a child named Joana "disappeared". Her mother, just like you, Mrs Kate, tried to project the case into the media, but she didn't make it any further than SIC…

Eight days later, came the confessions and the evidence: during an incestuous act between mother and uncle, the child was beaten, then dismembered and her body dumped who knows where. Mother and uncle went to jail, in a process that was coordinated by Gonçalo Amaral and which earned them almost 20 years in jail, each. But let us go a bit back in time. The child died on the 12th of September. On Christmas eve, our family was reunited for prayer, when my husband asked me to prepare a bag with some food and warm clothes, because he had not carried out his Christmas act of penance. Can you, Mrs Kate, imagine where Gonçalo Amaral went on that Christmas night under heavy rain and thunder? He went to the Olhão Prison, where João Cipriano, Joana's uncle, a confessed murderer and a clinically diagnosed psychopath, is detained. According to my husband, to simply offer an alimony to some beggar was not a sacrifice to him. The fact that he embraced and shared his Christmas meal with João Cipriano was the sacrifice that he offered to God, in memory of Joana. Is this not a disgrace? You should also know that every year, on the 12th of September, my husband has a mass celebrated in memory of Joana Isabel Cipriano Guerreiro. He says that nobody will ever remember the poor little girl again. Right, but they remember to unjustly accuse him of actions and crimes that he never committed. Isn't this a disgrace, Mrs Kate?

 - There is a last episode that I will report to you, one that I still find hard to talk about. Last year, in May, we started to move our family to Portimão. My husband was supposed to enjoy a holiday period starting on the day after your daughter's disappearance. "For obvious reasons" that didn't happen. I started on a new job, looked for a house, moved house, and tried to integrate our daughters in new schools and new routines. All of this I did alone, without any help from my husband, who for obvious reasons, was looking for your daughter, Mrs Kate. In October, on his birthday, a week after our daughters started school, Gonçalo Amaral was dismissed and returned to Faro. This was supposed to be the time of the family's reunion and it turned out to be another separation. Isn't this a disgrace? Our daughters never managed to understand, and we never managed to explain to them what obvious reasons were those that rewarded in this manner a father who left his own daughters to go looking for a child that he had never met and whose parents had neglected her. It was a pity that my dear friend Mrs Kate was not around anymore at that date, because you could have been very helpful to me in explaining these "obvious reasons" that led to their father's dismissal, to our daughters.

Finally, I can only report to you that intimately, Gonçalo Amaral is precisely what the latinos are famed for: shameless, as my pudency does not allow me to write any further.

I ask you, my good friend, to forgive these confidences from a wife and mother, but I'm certain that you will understand. I finish this letter asking you to send your mother my most sincere praises. She sounded so sincere to me, when during an interview she referred that she felt like slapping the face of the person who left her grandchildren alone. She spoke so openly that she sounded like a genuine Portuguese grandmother…

My dear friend Mrs Kate, without wishing to bother you any further, I would like to request one last favour from you: now that you have started to tell some truths, please continue, and let the world hear the truth that it has been waiting for.

Best regards,
Sofia Leal
Wife and Mother of the Daughters of Gonçalo Amaral

Oh dear. Someone who can make the Liverpudlians look stiff upper-lipped.

[icabodcrane]

Oh dear. Someone who can make the Liverpudlians look stiff upper-lipped.

I never found stiff upper lips particularly attractive myself

This woman has done no harm to anyone that I know of 

The venom directed at her takes my breath away

[Sherlock Holmes]

I never found stiff upper lips particularly attractive myself

This woman has done no harm to anyone that I know of 

The venom directed at her takes my breath away

She's not  (was not) the first woman to be married to a man with a demanding career who puts in many extra hours and spends nights away from home. Instead of addressing her frustrations, she takes them out on Kate McCann. Completely irrational.

[icabodcrane]

She's not  (was not) the first woman to be married to a man with a demanding career who puts in many extra hours and spends nights away from home. Instead of addressing her frustrations, she takes them out on Kate McCann. Completely irrational.

And in this whole sorry saga, and amongst all the sorry characters that have played  a part  ...    THIS  woman should be reviled  ?   

I don't think so

[Rachel Granada]

I never found stiff upper lips particularly attractive myself

This woman has done no harm to anyone that I know of 

The venom directed at her takes my breath away

Leal would have known full well that this letter would have brought further upset and pain to someone already vulnerable.  As I said before, Leal is disgusting.