McCanns receive €500k in Portuguese libel case

A former detective has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds to Gerry and Kate McCann following a libel case in a Portuguese court.

Goncalo Amaral had been on trial over claims he made in a book and a documentary that the McCanns were involved in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in 2007.

In a written verdict, a Lisbon court agreed that Amaral should pay Mr and Mrs McCann €250,000 each in damages and it banned further sales of his book The Truth Of The Lie.