McCanns to lodge complaint against Portuguese detective

MADELEINE McCann’s parents will lodge a complaint with Portuguese police alleging that former detective Goncalo Amaral broke his country’s strict judicial secrecy laws, the couple’s lawyer said.

Kate and Gerry McCann are already embroiled in legal action against Amaral in an attempt to ban his book which claims their daughter is dead.

Now the couple intend to accuse him formally of passing on information about the police investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance before the case was closed – a criminal offence in Portugal.