McCann parents still owe thousands in legal fees from libel case

Kate and Gerry McCann still owe thousands in legal fees after losing libel case to Portuguese detective who accused them of killing daughter Madeleine Goncalo Amaral is set to hit the McCann parents with a new demand for money The disgraced policeman's book was the cause of a lengthy legal battle Lisbon court papers show Madeleine's parents are nearly £24,000 out of pocket 

By Gerard Couzens In Lisbon For Mailonline

Published: 08:30 GMT, 24 March 2019 | Updated: 08:30 GMT, 24 March 2019

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The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are still being chased for hefty legal fees nearly a decade after the start of their court battle against the ex-police chief who has attacked them again in a new documentary.

Kate and Gerry McCann are about to be told by a Lisbon court they still owe thousands of pounds from their libel fight against Goncalo Amaral.

Goncalo Amaral is still chasing Kate and Gerry McCann for hefty legal fees

Goncalo Amaral is still chasing Kate and Gerry McCann for hefty legal fees

And the disgraced policeman, who has just accused the couple of putting their daughter's life at risk in a new Netflix series about Madeleine's 2007 disappearance, is set to increase their heartbreak by hitting them with a fresh four-figure demand for cash.

Amaral, 59, is waiting on a soon-to-come judgement from the European Court of Human Rights over the lengthy legal battle with the McCanns sparked by his hurtful 2008 book The Truth of The Lie before deciding whether to launch a compensation claim.

But legal papers at a Lisbon court show Madeleine's parents are already nearly £24,000 out of pocket after accusing Amaral of defaming them by cruelly claiming in the book she died in an accident at their Algarve apartment and they covered it up.

Another bill totalling £5,346 to cover left-over court costs - half what they were being asked for before a successful appeal a judge has just ruled on - is about to be sent to their lawyer Isabel Duarte.

And that is likely to pave the way for a fresh claim by Amaral to get Madeleine's parents to compensate him for another £5,148 in remaining fees he will be asked for that were incurred in persuading his country's top court to back him over the book fight.

Legal papers in a Lisbon court show how Madeleine's parents are nearly £24,000 out of pocket after accusing Amaral of defamation

Legal papers in a Lisbon court show how Madeleine's parents are nearly £24,000 out of pocket after accusing Amaral of defamation

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