How McCann libel fight cost find Maddie Fund
Daily Mirror UK|January 10, 2023
£7k to battle Portuguese ex-cop
MARTIN FRICKER
How McCann libel fight cost find Maddie Fund

THE parents of Madeleine McCann had to use funds raised to search for their daughter to fight an ex-police officer who made “unfounded” claims about the case. 

Last September, Kate and Gerry McCann lost a 13-year libel battle with Goncalo Amaral, who had suggested they were involved in their daughter’s disappearance.

Accounts for Madeleine’s Fund, a not-for-profit company, reveal it paid £6,695 in legal costs “in relation to a libel action in Portugal brought by Gerald and Kate McCann”.

This story is from the January 10, 2023 edition of Daily Mirror UK.

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