Sacked police chief points finger at McCanns
Monday April 13 2009
THE former police officer thrown off the Madeleine McCann case is set to attack her parents again in a TV documentary.
Shamed Goncalo Amaral will cast doubt on Gerry and Kate's belief that she was snatched by a paedophile. He will claim Madeleine died in the British couple's holiday apartment the night she vanished nearly two years ago.
The documentary is closely based on Mr Amaral's 214-page book 'The Truth of the Lie', penned last year after he was removed from the hunt for missing Madeleine.
It will also include a reconstruction of the night the three-year-old vanished which will lend weight to the idea she died in the Praia da Luz flat.
Portuguese TV station TV1 is set to broadcast it tonight after buying the rights from an independent company.
Its transmission comes 10 days after Mr McCann jetted to the Algarve to help a separate reconstruction of the night Madeleine disappeared which will go out next month on Channel 4.
Mr Amaral was removed as the head of the Madeleine probe in October 2007 after claiming British police were at the beck and call of the McCanns.
He wrote his controversial book claiming the youngster died in a "tragic accident" in apartment 5A after taking early retirement from the Policial Judiciaria. The book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Europe since being released in Portugal last July.
It is yet to be published in Britain following the threat of legal action by the McCanns.
- Gerard Couzens in London
