McCanns win a €500,000 libel payout

A former detective has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of euros to the McCann family 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 Gerry and Kate McCann were involved in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance in Praia da Luz on the Algarve in 2007.