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	Original Source: Twitter Thursday 12 August 2013
	Martin Brunt‏ @ skymartinbrunt

Libel Trial 12 September 2013

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#madeleine Ex-cop Goncalo Amaral defends McCann libel action in Lisbon tomorrow and is expected to ask judge to hold hearing in private.

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#madeleine Kate McCann expected to attend start of Lisbon libel trial against ex-cop Goncalo Amaral and his book 'The Truth of the Lie'.

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#madeleine McCann first witness at libel trial will be documentary maker Emma Loach, daughter of film director Ken Loach.

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#madeleine Other McCann witnesses will include their private investigator Dave Edgar, solicitor Angus McBride and Kate's mum Susan Healy.

10:41 AM - 12 Sep 13
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#madeleine McCann lawyer Isabel Duarte tells Sky News she believes ex-cop Goncalo Amaral is hiding the profits from his book.

11:02 AM - 12 Sep 13

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#madeleine Kate McCann arrives for libel trial in Lisbon with mum Susan Healy and filmmaker Emma Loach. pic.twitter.com/AgdkrXeP5Z

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#madeleine Kate McCann declines to comment on arrival. Lawyer for Mr Amaral asking judge to ban media "to preserve the memory of Madeleine."

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#madeleine CORRECTIION. This is Mrs McCann arriving w filmmaker Emma Loach and priest's wife Susan Hubbard pic.twitter.com/22SL6GUMMd

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#madeleine Mr Amaral loses bid to have media excluded and libel trial under way. First witness is Susan Hubbard, friend and priest's wife

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#madeleine Susan Hubbard says McCanns devastated by Amaral book which said Madeleine died accidentally and they had been negligent.

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#madeleine Mrs Hubbard said McCanns had to use all their energy to defend themselves instead of searching for Madeleine.

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#madeleine Mrs Hubbard said McCanns devastated because book made everyone believe Madeleine was dead.

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#madeleine Mrs Hubbard said McCanns could not believe Mr Amaral was allowed to write his book "without any facts."

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#madeleine Mrs Hubbard said TV documentary after the book made things worse, because viewers then bought more books.

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#madeleine Hubbard: actors who played Kate and Gerry in Portuguese documentary portrayed them after M vanished as "crazy, heavy drinkers"

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#madeleine Documentary producer Emma Loach, friend of MCcanns, said Amaral's book and TV prog based on it had "devastating" effect on them.

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#madeleine Loach: "Kate realised the people she needed help from now thought Madeleine was dead and they were implicated."

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#madeleine Loach: book was published 3 days after Port police closed case saying no evidence of McCann involvement and "destroyed all that."

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#madeleine Loach: TV documentary later made things worse because more than 2 million people watched it.

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#madeleine Loach: McCanns have to monitor Internet use of twins Seam and Amelie to stop them finding out about book and Port TV documentary.

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#madeleine Kate McCann about to make statement at end of first day of Lisbon libel action against ex-cop and TV documentary makers.

Libel Trial 27 September 2013

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#madeleine Gerry McCann expected to ask judge to let him give evidence in libel trial against ex-cop Goncalo Amaral in Lisbon today.

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#madeleine Ex-cop Goncalo Amaral in good mood as he arrives at McCann libel trial in Lisbon pic.twitter.com/pSWBbeazOn

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#madeleine Gerry McCann arrives for libel trial. He said: "I'm here for Madeleine and justice." pic.twitter.com/DmwBtlCJN6

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#madeleine Today's hearing abandoned because Mr Amaral's lawyer's son is ill.

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#madeleine Outside court Mr McCann said: "I want to give evidence. Kate and I know better than anyone what we've experienced."

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#madeleine Gerry McCann: "Damage has been caused to the search for Madeleine.

Martin Brunt reporting from Portugal, 12 September 2013

Martin Brunt reporting from Portugal Live Sky News broadcast

12 September 2013
With thanks to A. Miller for transcript

Sky studio

Charlotte Hawkins: And the parents of missing Madeleine begin their libel case this morning against a Portuguese Police Chief who accused them of involvement in their daughter's disappearance.

Live to Lisbon now and our crime correspondent Martin Brunt is there.

And Martin what will be happening today?

Lisbon

Martin Brunt: Kate McCann is expected to be here although she won't be giving evidence. The Portuguese lawyers for the family have at the last minute almost suggested that her presence might be helpful to their case.

Today's start of a libel hearing is really a resumption of a hearing that began almost... no more than three years ago and it's all about the McCanns trying to get a Judge to accept that Goncal Amaral, who was the original investigator in the case of Madeleine McCann's disappearance, had defamed the couple.

He was taken off the case within a few months of Madeleine's disappearance. He then resigned from the Portuguese Police and wrote a very controversial book called the Truth of the Lie, in which he in effect said that Madeleine, in his belief, had died in the apartment on the Algarve where the couple were on holiday with their family in 2007. But most importantly he accused the family of covering up her death.

Now the McCann's argument is that in defaming them in that way he poisoned public opinion, particularly in Portugal, against the McCanns, and that interrupted and affected the on-going search for their daughter.

They are claiming damages of 1.2 million euros about £1m. Money which they say, if they win, will be used to continue the search for their daughter.

Their own private detectives' investigation has been suspended while Scotland Yard does its investigation but they believe that at some stage they may have to re-start their own private investigation so that's where they say, the money , if they win it, during this libel trial will be used.

Sky studio

Charlotte Hawkins: Thank you Martin

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Twitter (Duane Keane) Kate McCann boards plane to Portugal

MIRROR Kate McCann arrives at court with her mother (sic Susan Hubbard) as the libel trial against a former Portuguese police chief started

SKY Kate McCann (L) arrives for the hearing this morning Susan Hubbard

martinbrunt‏@skymartinbrunt2m filmmaker Emma Loach and priest's wife Susan Hubbard

MAIL Mrs McCann is being accompanied by Emma Loach her friend Susan Hubbard for the first hearing of the case against Mr Amaral, who published a book making allegations about Madeleine's disappearance

MAIL Case: Kate McCann arrives at Lisbon's civil court today for the start of the family's libel action against Goncalo Amaral

MAIL Mrs McCann (lAbove) is suing the Portuguese ex-police chief (Below) for the book, titled 'Maddie: The Truth of The Lie', which accuses her of staging her daughter's disappearance, despite a lack of evidence