However, an appeal court overturned the decision the next year and, in 2017, the supreme court also found against the McCanns. In 2015, a Lisbon court ordered Amaral, a former detective inspector, to pay €500,000 (£440,000) to Madelein e’s parents. The couple sued Gonçalo Amaral, who led the botched police search for Madeleine in 2007, over statements he made in a book, documentary and newspaper interview alleging their involvement. Last year, the McCanns lost a European court of human rights (ECHR) challenge to the Portuguese supreme court’s decision to throw out a libel case against a former detective who claimed they were implicated in their daughter’s disappearance. “It is hard to find the words to convey how we feel … The police investigation continues, and we await a breakthrough.” “Today marks the 16th anniversary of Madeleine’s abduction,” they said. Map of locations in Madeleine McCann investigation including Praia da Luz and Barragem do Arade reservoirĮarlier this month, the McCanns issued a short statement on their Find Madeleine campaign website to mark the 16th anniversary of her disappearance. They are not linked to Madeleine’s disappearance. The alleged offences took place in Portugal between December 2000 and July 2017. He was charged last year by German prosecutors in Braunschweig with three offences of aggravated rape of women and two offences of sexual abuse of children. Last month, a German court said it was cancelling a sexual offences trial against Brückner on charges unrelated to McCann’s disappearance, on the grounds that the region where it is located is not the last place he lived in Germany. The Met referred all media inquiries to German authorities.īrückner is now in a German prison serving a sentence for rape. However, the Met police continue to treat it as a missing person case under Operation Grange, the multimillion-pound investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance. He has not been charged with any offences connected with Madeleine’s disappearance, and has denied any involvement. German police said in June 2020 that the girl was assumed dead and Brückner was probably responsible for her disappearance. Kate and Gerry McCann were dining at a nearby tapas restaurant when Madeleine disappeared, triggering one of the most highly publicised missing person cases in British history. This will be the first major operation of its kind since June 2014, when the Metropolitan police received permission from Portuguese officials to search the holiday resort of Praia da Luz with search dogs and ground-penetrating radar. On Monday evening, Portugal’s judicial police released a statement confirming local media reports that they would conduct the search at the request of the German authorities and in the presence of British officials. Images of Portuguese officers walking along dry tracks near the reservoir and sealing off areas with police tape began emerging on Monday afternoon. It remains unclear why the police have chosen to search the reservoir again at this point. The reservoir was reportedly searched in 2008 and bones found in a bag were judged to be of “non-human origin”. On Monday, a road leading to Barragem do Arade reservoir, which has an average depth of about 14 metres, was blocked and police tents were seen. Madeleine McCann disappeared on from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
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